Changing metadata server IP address

This topic describes how to change the IP address for a metadata server.

Context

This change requires the server to go offline and be rebooted.

Steps

  1. Reassign statically-assigned filesets so the filesets are no longer served by the metadata server as necessary.
  2. Drop the metadata server for which you want to change the IP address. You can use the dropserver command.
  3. Reconfigure the engine that the metadata server resides on so that the engine uses the new IP address. You need to edit the appropriate Linux configuration files and issue the Linux route and ipconfig administrative commands.
  4. Run the setupsfs utility to create a new instance of the metadata server on the engine and specify the new Server IP address.
  5. Add the new metadata server to the cluster from the master metadata server using the addserver command or the Add a server to Cluster action from the Servers panel.

Parent topic: Managing metadata servers

Related concepts
Metadata server

Related reference
dropserver
addserver
Servers panel

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