cluster directory

[Andy2345]

 -bash-3.2$ cd /opt/VRTS/bin

  cd /opt/VRTSvcs/bin

  /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts 

1.   why these cluster scripts are in 3 directories
2. What is the default directory which is created under which i have all the cluster commands loke hagrp,hares etc (both in windows and unix)
3. why we have 3 directories.What are the default ones?

-bash-3.2$ cd /opt/VRTS/bin

-bash-3.2$ ls |grep -i hares

hares

-bash-3.2$ ls |grep -i hagrp

hagrp

-bash-3.2$ cd /opt/VRTSvcs/bin

-bash-3.2$ ls |grep -i hagrp

hagrp

[mikebounds]

For UNIX the VCS commands are in /opt/VRTSvcs/bin.  For Vxvm and vxfs the commands are in different directories and therefore the most common commands for VCS, Vxvm and vxfs are symboliced linked to /opt/VRTS/bin so you don't need lots of directories in $PATH.

I don't know much about NBU, but I would guess files in   /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts are sym linked to commands in /opt/VRTSvcs/bin, so NBU has all the commands it needs in its $PATH

I don't think windows has symbolic links to commands so they are all in (from memory) program files\cluster server\bin

Mike

[Andy2345]

What is for unix default path?

[mikebounds]

Not sure what you mean.  The default PATH is not changed by VCS installation, so if you think all users need VCS commands in their path you can add /opt/VRTS/bin to default path, but many people only change roots path as often root is the only user running VCS commands.

Mike

[Andy2345]

 -bash-3.2$ cd /opt/VRTS/bin

  cd /opt/VRTSvcs/bin

  /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts 

We have 3 directories 

.Why?

[Andy2345]

I don't know much about NBU, but I would guess files in   /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts are sym linked to commands in /opt/VRTSvcs/bin, so NBU has all the commands it needs in its $PATH

Please ellaborate above statement

[Satish_K__Pagar]

The cluster server installs all the binaries like hagrp, hares etc. in the main install dir i.e. "/opt/VRTSvcs/bin" . Similarly all the vxvm, vxfs commands are installed in their respective main install directories i.e. e.g. /opt/VRTSvxvm/bin , /optVRTSvxfs/bin etc. To consolidate all the Veritas suite of product commands in one single path they are all symlinked to "/opt/VRTS/bin". To answer your question, the default directory would be the directory where the actual binary resides.

[mikebounds · Accepted solution]

I've never used NBU, but the hares, hagrp, etc commands in /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts are almost certainly symbolicly linked to the actual binaries in /opt/VRTSvcs/bin as it would be very bad practice in deed to actually copy the binaries into  /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts.  

As with SF and VCS where common commands are sym linked into /opt/VRTS/bin, I would guess NBU is doing the same thing and so common commmands are sym linked into  /opt/VRTSnbu/scripts.

Mike