CLUVFY User Equivalence Failure

The runcluvfy.sh comp nodecon kept failing the User Equivalence Test. Turns out the cause was two different issues.

The first issue was with the path to ssh. To solve this issue we had to reference Oracle MetaLink Note 36598.1. Here is an excerpt from the Note:

"Generate a trace file using the cluvfy debugging environment variable SRVM_TRACE=TRUE as in Note 316817.1 and the resulting trace file will show something like:checkRemoteExecutionSetup:: Error checking user equivalence using Secured Shell'/usr/local/bin/ssh'; Fri May 12 15:38:18 CEST 2006. Cluvfy was looking in the wrong location for ssh. As it can be seen in the trace file, the location where the utility is searched is/usr/local/bin/, whilst it resides in /usr/bin.
To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:

1. add the symbolic links in /usr/local/bin pointing to the real ssh location, ie /usr/bin. Do the same for the scp command.
2. generate the ssh keys to all the cluster locations.
3. Run cluvfy again"

The second issue was with the banner. "ssh node date" would return a security banner in addition to the date. In order to get nodecon to work, I had to rename the /etc/issue.net (in HP-UX Itanium) to keep a banner from displaying. See MetaLink note: 338045.1. Of course, once we are finished with the install, I will rename it back.