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Move NIS master to new Solaris 10 server and make old Solaris 8 master a sl

I have added a new Sunfire v440 server to my network; I need to make it the NIS master.

Current NIS configuration: Ultra60 (Solaris 8) is NIS master, Samba server, license server and NFS file server; v440 (Solaris 10) is a NIS slave,

Ultra10 (Solaris 8) is a NIS slave.

Planned NIS configuration: v440 is NIS master, Samba server, and license server; Ultra60 is NIS slave and file server; Ultra10 is NIS slave.

What are the steps to swap roles of the NIS master/slave, with minimal downtime on a production system?

[547 byte] By [ArloSmurf@comcast.neta] at [2007-11-27 9:15:50]
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My suggestion would be to to install the latest general release of Solaris 10 on your 440 and set up a number of local zones that act as dedicated appliances for NIS, Samba (works great from a local zone because you are just exporting file systems NFS, on the other hand, can only be served from the global zone) and whatever other services that are appropriate.

In your NIS master local zone, the easiest route would be to migrate the host node name and IP address of the NIS master you are retiring. Everything else is fairly straight forward. This may mean that you move NIS last if the other services share the same host node name as the current NIS master.

-mel

meljra at 2007-7-12 22:05:15 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris 10 Features...
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Sounds like I need to learn about zones -- is this something like the virtual machines on mainframes?tom
ArloSmurf@comcast.neta at 2007-7-12 22:05:15 > top of Java-index,Solaris Operating System,Solaris 10 Features...
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