Do I have to type the nodelist every time for the CVU commands? Is there any shortcut?
You do not have to type the nodelist every time for the CVU commands. Typing the nodelist for a large cluster is painful and error prone. Here are few shortcuts. To provide all the nodes of the cluster, type ‘-n all’. Cluvfy will attempt to get the nodelist in the following order: 1. If a vendor clusterware is available, it will pick all the configured nodes from the vendor clusterware using lsnodes utility. 2. If CRS is installed, it will pick all the configured nodes from Oracle clusterware using olsnodes utility. 3. It will look for the CV_NODE_ALL property in the cvu_config file under $CV_HOME/cv/admin. 4. If none of the above, it will look for the CV_NODE_ALL environmental variable. 5. Otherwise, it will complain. To provide a partial list(some of the nodes of the cluster) of nodes, you can set an environmental variable and use it in the CVU command.