[SUMMARY: Deleting a member node from TruCluster]

Dear Managers,

My original questions were as follow.

> I have a two-node TruCluster using Tru64 UNIX version 5.1A.  I need
> to remove (delete) the member upon which the cluster software was
> first installed and the cluster first built (I refer to it as the
> master node).  Now I remember reading some documentation a long time
> ago that any addition or deletion of members of the cluster should be
> done from the master node (using clu_add_member or clu_delete_member
> as the case may be).
> 
> Now my problem is what to do if I need to remove the master node?
> 
> Any advice, caveats or war stories will be highly appreciated.
> 
> Can anyone rember which was the document that would have mentioned
> that master node?
> 

With thanks to Dr. Thomas Blinn, Raul Sossa and Dominic Christopher, my
problem is solved.

It is possible to delete any non-running member of the cluster from any
running cluster member without any problems.  In particular, I will
quote for you the reply from Dr. Blinn, as his reply was a detailed
explanation.

>> The "master" is the system on which Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster software were
>> originally installed and upon which the "clu_create" command was issued to
>> build the cluster.  That system was originally running as member 0 in the
>> context of what became the cluster.  It created a cluster bootable system
>> from the original installation, and by default would have chosen member 1 as
>> the identifier for its own cluster member specific files.  Later, if you add
>> a new member with "clu_add_member" a different member number is chosen, so
>> that each member has a unique member number.
>> 
>> Because the cluster is "symmetric", you can use any running member to remove
>> any non-running member's part of the file system from the cluster.  There is
>> not any particular special role for any particular member.  The one thing
>> you can't readily do is wipe the boot disk of a member that has a private
>> boot disk; that is, if member "a" can't access member "b"'s boot disk and
>> you use member "a" to remove member "b" from the cluster, it won't be able
>> to wipe member "b"'s boot disk.
>> 
>> This stuff is all documented in the cluster admin manual, as I recall.
>> 
>> Tom

Additionally, Dominic Christopher reported actual experience 
successfully removing and adding back the "master" member node without 
any problems.

Thank you all.

Yours sincerely,
Robert Honore.