[jim@nordisk]

I have a 80 page document that I created for a customer that we were consulting on implementing a two node cluster with SSA with three NIS and two networks.

It covers the installation of the firmware update. The installation of the OS, the Installation of the patches, the Installation of the HACMP software, the installation of the HACMP software pathces, the installation and configuration of the SSA. The configuration of the volume groups, the volume group mirrors, and the mirrored file systems.

The next thing it goe into is the testing of the serial ports, for heart beat, the testing of the SSA adapter for heart beat etc.

The real difficult thing to get a handle on is the ceation of the persistant IP addresses. That is a real un-natural act if you get my drift.

Once you get all that stuff done you issue the command
'smit hacmp,
go into network topology and run the discovery tool.
When that runs you configure the IP, and non IP point to point networks.

Once you got that done, you run the verification and the synchronization tool.
If that runs free of errors you are home free.

The above mentioned document is pretty much a here is the screen scoll down to the the option and select. No real understaing why you are doing it but as the say in the Nike commercial just do it. If you want me to send it to you send me a email. Of course I will have to sanatize it to remove all the customer info.
But I think it is a good road map of what you need to do, and how to do it with out understanding squat.