Copying a configuration on to another Power System

When you have installed and configured Blueworx Voice Response on one Power System, you might want to copy the whole configuration on to other Power Systems. This is known as cloning. To clone a Blueworx Voice Response configuration, use the mksysb command to back up the data in the root volume group on the first system and then install it on the second system. The mksysb command is described in “Backing Up Your System” in the AIX Installation Guide.

After you have loaded the system image onto another Power System and changed the hostname, you need to run the fsupdate command. You also need to update the DB2 configuration file /home/dtdbbvr/sqllib/db2nodes.cfg to ensure that the hostname matches the target machine. The hostname is referenced as 0 hostname 0 within this file, where hostname matches the output from the AIX hostname command being run on the target machine.

However, you need to bear in mind that:

• AIX automatically installs only the minimum software filesets for the devices and machine detected during the installation process. This gives you the maximum amount of free disk space for your applications. However, it also means that when you clone a system to a different model of Power System or to a system with different devices attached, you may have to install additional software on the second system.

  For example, cloning from a system with no token ring adapter to one with a token ring adapter won't work if the minimum subset of filesets was installed on the original system. You will need to install the filesets required to support the token ring adapter after installing the cloned system.

  Ideally, if you are planning to clone many systems, you should specifically install on the original system all the filesets you are going to require to support all the devices on the other systems.

• You require a software license for each system on which you intend to use the C or C ++ compiler.