Installing the VCS agent for DB2 software

Last published : Sep 11, 2026
The agent binaries for Cluster Server Agent for DB2 is part of VRTSvcsea fileset. The VRTSvcsea fileset is already installed if you chose to install all packages or recommended packages during VCS installation. You must manually install the VRTSvcsea fileset if you installed minimal packages during VCS installation.
You can install the Cluster Server Agent for DB2 from the product disc. You must install the VCS Agent for DB2 enterprise agent on all nodes that will host the DB2 service group.
To install the agent on an AIX node
  1. Log in as superuser.
  2. Make sure that the agent is not already installed. Navigate to /opt/VRTSagents/ha/bin and list the contents of the directory.
If the command returns the VCS agents for DB2, you can skip this procedure.
  1. Determine the device access name of the disc drive. For example, enter:
    \# cd /dev
    \# lsdev -C -c cdrom
    The output might resemble:
    cd0 Available 05-08-00 IDE DVD-RAM Drive
In this example, cd0 is the disc's device access name.
  1. Insert the disc with the VCS software into a drive that is connected to the node.
  2. Mount the software disc using the device access name that you found in step 3:
    \# mkdir -p /dvdrom
    \# mount -V cdrfs -o ro /dev/cd0 /dvdrom
    \# cd /dvdrom
    1. Install the DB2 agent software.
    \# installp -ac -d /dvdrom/pkgs/VRTSvcsea.bff VRTSvcsea
The fileset also installs the VCS agents for Oracle and Sybase.
  1. Repeat step 1 through step 5 on each node that you want to be part of the VCS Agent for DB2 service group.