SGI® Management Center™ (SMC) Administration Guide for Clusters

Document Number: 007-6358-002

Front Matter

| List of Figures | List of Examples | List of Procedures |


Table of Contents

New Features

About This Guide
Cluster Terminology
Related Publications
Obtaining Publications
Conventions
Reader Comments

1. Configuring Optional Compute Node Features
Configuring a Compute Node as a Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway
Troubleshooting a Network Address Translation (NAT) Configuration
Configuring a File System on a Compute Node for use with a Network File System (NFS) Server
Configuring a Compute Node as a Network File System (NFS) Server
Configuring Compute Nodes and/or SGI ICE Compute Nodes as Network Information Service (NIS) Clients to the House Network's NIS Server
RHEL Compute Node House Network Configuration
Configuring a Compute Node as a Network Information Service (NIS) Server

2. System Operation
Changing Global Cluster Configuration Settings
discover Command
Managing Slots
Power-On/Off Management
Power Consumption Management
pdsh and pdcp Commands
cadmin: the Administrative Interface
Console Management
Keeping System Time Synchronized
Changing the Size of /tmp on SGI ICE Compute Nodes
Enabling or Disabling the SGI ICE Compute Node iSCSI Swap Device
Changing the Size of Per-node Swap Space
Switching SGI ICE Compute Nodes to a tmpfs Root
About Configuring Local Storage Space for Swap and Scratch Disk Space
Using the cattr Command to Modify System Attributes
About Disk Quotas
LSI Logic MegaRAID Command-line Utility
Backing up and Restoring the System Database
Enabling EDNS
Pushing System Images from the Admin Node

3. Managing Software Images
Overview of Image Management on SGI Clusters
Image Management Commands
Retrieving the List of Supported Distributions (Distros)
Changing the Services on the SGI ICE Compute Nodes
Customizing Software On Your SGI ICE X System
Using cinstallman to Install Packages into Software Images
Using yum to Install Packages on Running Compute Nodes or Rack Leader Controllers (RLCs)
Creating SGI ICE Compute and Compute Node Images Using the cinstallman Command
Installing a Compute Node with a Non-default Image
Retrieving a Compute Node Image from a Running Compute Node
Using a Custom Repository for Site Packages
SGI ICE X System Configuration Framework
Cluster Configuration Repository: Updates on Demand
Using the SMC Version Control System

4. InfiniBand Fabric Management
About the InfiniBand Network
InfiniBand Fabric Management
Utilities and Diagnostics

5. System Maintenance, Monitoring, and Debugging
Hardware Maintenance Procedures
Node Replacement Procedure for Cold Spare Admin Node, Rack Leader Controller (RLC), or Compute Nodes
Out-of-Memory Occurrences on SLES11 and PBS Professional Batch Scheduler
System Monitoring
Troubleshooting IRU Power Up and Automatic Power Down Problems
Troubleshooting
About the kdump Utility
System Firmware

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