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Administration Guide

Contents

  • Figures

  • Tables

  • About this book
  • Who should use this book
  • Typographic conventions
  • Interface instructions

    • RS/6000 SP system overview

  • Chapter 1. SP system overview
  • Introduction
  • AIX
  • PSSP
  • Other IBM programs
  • Independent software vendor programs

    • Security on the SP system

  • Chapter 2. Security features of the SP system
  • Terminology
  • SP security concepts
  • Concepts specific to DCE
  • Concepts specific to Kerberos V4

  • Chapter 3. Managing and using SP security services
  • Managing authentication information
  • Managing authorization information
  • Managing the security configuration
  • Managing authentication credentials

    • Routine system administration tasks

  • Chapter 4. Starting up and shutting down the SP system
  • Overview of system startup and shutdown
  • Being authorized
  • Controlling the sequence of startup and shutdown operations
  • Starting the SP system
  • Shutting down the SP system
  • Checking the status of startup and shutdown requests
  • Defining startup and shutdown sequence files
  • Creating a special subsystem

  • Chapter 5. Remote execution of SP commands
  • AIX authenticated remote commands
  • |Secure remote commands
  • AIX remote command authorization files
  • |Secure remote commands authorization
  • Using dsh to run parallel management commands
  • The hostlist command
  • The parallel management commands

  • Chapter 6. Controlling remote execution by using Sysctl
  • Components of Sysctl
  • Relationship to the SP security services
  • Overview
  • Sysctl installation and configuration information
  • Using Sysctl
  • Developing a Sysctl application
  • Sysctl reference information

  • Chapter 7. Managing file collections
  • Understanding file collections
  • Reporting file collection information
  • Verifying file collections using the scan file
  • Updating files in a file collection
  • Granting permission to obtain a file collection
  • Adding and deleting files in a file collection
  • Building a file collection
  • Installing a file collection
  • Refusing files in a file collection
  • Modifying the file collection hierarchy
  • Removing a file collection
  • Understanding the supper list file

  • Chapter 8. Managing user accounts
  • Understanding the SP user management facility
  • Adding user accounts
  • Changing user accounts
  • Removing user accounts
  • Listing a user account
  • Changing passwords
  • Controlling user login

  • Chapter 9. Managing time synchronization
  • Managing NTP
  • Time setting options
  • Nodes and control workstations out of time synchronization

  • Chapter 10. Managing the automounter
  • Understanding the automounter implementation
  • Establishing an automount map for user directories
  • Using automount for other file systems
  • Customizing the SP automounter function

  • Chapter 11. Managing mail service

  • Chapter 12. Accounting
  • Accounting by node or by class
  • Setting up SP accounting
  • |Disabling SP accounting
  • Accounting files

  • Chapter 13. Maintaining the crontabs file
  • Updating crontabs on the control workstation
  • Updating crontabs on the SP nodes

    • Managing sets of nodes

  • Chapter 14. Using a switch
  • Understanding the switch and the types supported
  • Switch communication modes
  • Understanding adapter window allocations
  • Primary node takeover
  • System partitioning and the SP Switch
  • Extension nodes and the SP Switch
  • |SP-attached and clustered servers
  • Selecting appropriate clocks for the SP Switch
  • Selecting the primary and primary backup nodes
  • Managing the switch topology file
  • Starting the switch
  • Determining switch connectivity
  • Automatic node unfence
  • Preparing the SP Switch for repartitioning
  • Monitoring nodes on an SP switch
  • Global shutdowns and reboots of nodes with a switch
  • NFS mounts over a switch

  • Chapter 15. Using job switch resource table services

  • Chapter 16. Managing system partitions
  • Understanding system partitioning
  • Understanding security for system partitions
  • Preparing the control workstation before you define system partitions
  • Partitioning the SP system
  • Displaying system partition configuration information
  • Verifying system partition configuration
  • Managing SP system partition-sensitive subsystems using syspar_ctrl

  • Chapter 17. Managing node groups
  • Understanding node groups
  • Working with node groups
  • Using node groups with commands

  • Chapter 18. Managing extension nodes
  • Understanding extension nodes
  • Specific implementations of extension nodes and extension node adapters
  • Transferring extension node configuration information
  • Adding extension nodes and extension node adapters
  • Changing extension nodes and extension node adapters
  • Removing extension nodes and extension node adapters
  • Reconfiguring extension nodes and extension node adapters
  • Resetting extension nodes
  • Listing extension node and extension node adapter information

    • Monitoring and controlling the SP system

  • Chapter 19. Using SP Perspectives
  • Getting started
  • Understanding the SP Perspectives interface
  • Accessing help
  • Performing common administration tasks with SP Perspectives that were previously performed using the System Monitor GUI

  • Chapter 20. Using the SP System Monitor
  • Understanding the Hardware Monitor
  • Configuring the SP System Monitor
  • Using the command line interfaces

  • Chapter 21. Integrating TME 10 on the SP System
  • Related publications
  • TME 10 terminology
  • Understanding the TME 10 Enterprise Console
  • Defining the PSSP T/EC adapter
  • Defining an event and forwarding it to the T/EC using the Event Perspective
  • Defining an event and forwarding it to the T/EC using the pmandef command
  • Debugging problems with event generation and reception by the T/EC

    • Availability and problem management

  • Chapter 22. Managing a High Availability Control Workstation configuration
  • Understanding the HACWS function
  • Managing SP subsystems for High Availability Control Workstation function
  • Customizing HACMP
  • Verifying frame supervisor cables

  • Chapter 23. The Topology Services subsystem
  • Introducing Topology Services
  • Topology Services components
  • Components on which Topology Services depends
  • Configuring and operating Topology Services
  • Topology Services procedures

  • Chapter 24. The Group Services subsystem
  • Introducing Group Services
  • Group Services components
  • Components on which Group Services depends
  • Configuring and operating Group Services
  • Group Services procedures

  • Chapter 25. The Event Management subsystem
  • Introducing Event Management
  • Event Management components
  • Components on which Event Management depends
  • Configuring and operating Event Management
  • Event Management procedures

  • Chapter 26. Using the Problem Management subsystem
  • Understanding the Problem Management daemon
  • Understanding the Problem Management resource monitor daemon

  • Chapter 27. Managing SP system events in a network environment
  • Understanding network management
  • Enabling network management for the SP system
  • Disabling network management for the SP system
  • Configuring the SP proxy agent
  • Configuring NetView for AIX for the SP system

  • Chapter 28. Managing error logs
  • Installing and configuring error log management
  • Managing the AIX error log facility
  • Managing the BSD syslog facility
  • Viewing error logs
  • Archiving error logs
  • Collecting system data for IBM service

    • The communications low-level application programming interface

  • Chapter 29. Understanding the Communications Low-Level Application Programming Interface (LAPI)
  • Introducing the LAPI
  • Understanding the LAPI

  • Chapter 30. Using the LAPI
  • Specific LAPI functions
  • |The LAPI shared memory execution model
  • The LAPI execution model
  • Executing LAPI programs
  • Specific LAPI hints

  • Chapter 31. LAPI programming examples
  • Active message (C)
  • Active message (Fortran)
  • Get (C)
  • Get (Fortran)
  • Put (C)
  • Put (Fortran)
  • putv_multi_gen (C)
  • putv.f (Fortran)
  • Rmw and Rmw64 (C)
  • Rmw and Rmw64 (Fortran)

    • Appendixes

  • Appendix A. Managing root volume groups
  • Terminology
  • Using mirrored root volume groups
  • Using alternate root volume groups

  • Appendix B. SP daemons

  • Appendix C. Sample files
  • afsclient.cust
  • block_usr_sample
  • bootptab.info
  • ibmSPDepNode.my
  • ibmSPMIB.my

  • Appendix D. Listing SP system resource variables
  • Looking at the Event Management load list files
  • Getting information about Event Management objects in the SDR
  • Displaying Event Management descriptions
  • Getting resource variable information from SP Perspectives

  • Appendix E. The System Data Repository
  • Understanding the SDR
  • Accessing the SDR
  • Updating the host_responds class (the hrd daemon)
  • Backing up the SDR
  • SDR shadow files
  • SDR classes and attributes

  • Appendix F. Changing IP address or host name on SP systems
  • SDR objects with IP addresses and host names
  • SP system files with IP addresses and host names
  • Changing an IP address or host name
  • |Changing an HMC IP address or host name

  • Appendix G. Tolerating IPv6 alias addresses
  • Adding an IPv6 alias
  • Deleting an IPv6 alias

  • Notices
  • Trademarks
  • Publicly available software

  • Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

  • Bibliography
  • Information formats
  • Finding documentation on the World Wide Web
  • Accessing PSSP documentation online
  • Manual pages for public code
  • RS/6000 SP planning publications
  • RS/6000 SP hardware publications
  • RS/6000 SP Switch Router publications
  • |Related hardware publications
  • RS/6000 SP software publications
  • |AIX publications
  • DCE publications
  • Redbooks
  • Non-IBM publications

  • Index

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