Installation and Migration Guide

How this book is organized

• Chapter 1, Overview of the installation and migration processes explains what happens when you perform the installation and customization procedure.
• Chapter 2, Installing and configuring a new RS/6000 SP system provides the information you need to get the RS/6000 SP system set up and functioning in your environment.
• Chapter 3, Installing and configuring the High Availability Control Workstation explains how to set up and configure your optional High Availability Control Workstation (HACWS).
• Chapter 4, Migrating the software on your RS/6000 SP system describes how to migrate your system to the latest levels of AIX and PSSP.
• Chapter 5, Reconfiguring security provides information on adding an authentication configuration to an existing SP system.
• Chapter 6, Reconfiguring the RS/6000 SP system discusses adding and replacing hardware components.
• Chapter 7, Performing software maintenance provides information on updating installation images, LPs, and support programs.
• Chapter 8, Performing hardware maintenance provides information on replacing a frame supervisor, a fixed disk, a disk not in rootvg, and an I/O Planar card or Ethernet adapter.
• Chapter 9, Installing the optional PSSP T/EC adapter provides information on installing a PSSP Tivoli Enterprise Console (T/EC) adapter.
• Chapter 10, Installing extension nodes provides information on installing an extension node.
• Appendix A, SAGE job descriptions contains system administrator job descriptions defined by SAGE.
• Appendix B, Directory information contains a list of the directories created when you install the RS/6000 SP LP image.
• Appendix C, SP Perspectives tasks provides instructions for completing common tasks using the SP Perspectives graphical user interface.
• Appendix D, Boot/install server configuration commands contains a list of the boot/install server configuration commands.
• Appendix E, User-supplied node customization scripts contains information on user-supplied customization scripts.
• Appendix F, Overriding the PPSIZE in a mksysb image contains information on how to override the PPSIZE in a mksysb image.
• Appendix G, Reserving ports contains information on reserving port numbers.

The back of the book includes a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.