Administration Guide

About this book

This book contains information to help you understand and perform SP system administration. It includes concepts and instructions pertaining to:

• Understanding IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel (SP) systems
• Performing routine system administration tasks
• Making the system secure
• Managing sets of nodes
• Monitoring the system
• Providing for system availability and problem management
• Understanding and using the Communications Low-level Application Programming Interface (LAPI)

Additional task information for system administrators is covered in separate manuals.

For a list of related books and information about accessing online information, see Bibliography.

This book applies to |PSSP version 3 release 4. To find out which version of PSSP is running on your control workstation (node 0), enter the following:

splst_versions -t -n0

In response, the system displays something similar to:

|0 PSSP-3.4

If the response indicates |PSSP-3.4, this book applies to the version of PSSP that is running on your system.

To find out which version of PSSP is running on the nodes of your system, enter the following from your control workstation:

splst_versions -G -t

In response, the system displays something similar to:

|1 PSSP-3.4
|2 PSSP-3.4
|7 PSSP-3.2
|8 PSSP-3.1.1

|If the response for a particular node indicates |PSSP-3.4, this book applies to the version of PSSP that is |running on that node.

If you are running mixed levels of PSSP, be sure to maintain and use the appropriate documentation for each version of PSSP that you are running.