Installing the VCS agent for DB2 software
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Installing the VCS agent for DB2 software

The agent binaries for Cluster Server Agent for DB2 is part of VRTSvcsea RPM. The VRTSvcsea RPM is already installed if you chose to install all packages or recommended packages during VCS installation. You must manually install the VRTSvcsea RPM if you installed minimal packages during VCS installation.

You can install the Cluster Server Agent for DB2 from the product disc. You must install the VCS Agent for DB2 enterprise agent on all nodes that will host the DB2 service group.

To install the agent on a Linux node

  1. Log in as superuser.
  2. Make sure that the agent is not already installed. Navigate to /opt/VRTSagents/ha/bin and list the contents of the directory.

    If the command returns the VCS agents for DB2, you can skip this procedure.

  3. Insert the software disc into a drive that is connected to the node.

    The software automatically mounts the disc as /mnt/cdrom.

  4. If the disc does not automatically mount, then you must mount the disc manually. For example:
    # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

  5. Install the agent software.

    • For RHEL6 or supported RHEL-compatible distributions on x86_64:

      # cd /mnt/cdrom/rhel6_x86_64/rpms

      # rpm -i VRTSvcsea-7.3.0.000-RHEL6.x86_64.rpm

    • For RHEL7 or supported RHEL-compatible distributions on x86_64:

      # cd /mnt/cdrom/rhel5_x86_64/rpms
      # # rpm -i VRTSvcsea-7.3.0.000-RHEL7.x86_64.rpm

    • For SLES11 on x86_64:

      # cd /mnt/cdrom/sles11_x86_64/rpms

      # rpm -i VRTSvcsea-7.3.0.000-SLES11.x86_64.rpm
    The VRTSvcsea RPM includes the agent binaries for the DB2 agents. The RPM also installs the VCS agents for Oracle and Sybase.
  6. Repeat step 1 through step 4 on each node that you want to be part of the DB2 service group.
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