HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Version 2.1

Home page for Superm on, a hig h-sp eed cluster monitoring system that em phasizes low
perturbation, high sampling rates, and an extensible data protocol and programming
interface. Supermon works in conjunction with Nagios to provide XC system monitoring.
• http://www.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh/
Home page for the parallel distributed shell (pdsh), w hich executes commands across XC
client nodes in p a rall el.
• http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/
Home page for syslog-ng©, a logging tool that replaces the traditional syslog
functionality. The syslog-ng tool is a flexible an d scalable audit trail processing too l,
and it provides a centralized, securely stored log of all devices on your network.
• http://systemimager.org
Home page for SystemIm ager®, which is the underlying technology that is used to install
the XC software, distribute the golden image, and distribute configuration changes.
• http://www.etnus.com
Home page for Etnus, Inc., maker o f the TotalView parallel debugger.
• http://www.macrovision.com
Home page for Macrovisio n® , developer of the FLEX lm ™ license mana gem ent utility,
which is used for HP XC license management.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/
Home page for M odu les, which provide for easy dynamic modification of a user’s
environment through modulefiles, which typical ly instr uct th e modul e com mand to alter or
set shell en vironment variables.
• http://dev.mysql.com/
Home page for MySQL A B, developer of the MySQL database. This Web site contains a
link to the MySQ L documentation, particularly the MySQL Reference Manual.
Manpages
Manpages provide online referen ce and co mmand informatio n f rom the command line.
Manpages are supplied w ith the HP X C system for standard HP XC com po nent s , Linux user
commands, LSF commands, and other software compo nents that are distributed with the HP
XC system .
Manpages for th ird-party vendor software components m ay be provided as a part of the
deliverables for that component.
Using the discover
(8) manpage as an exam ple, you can use either of the following commands
to display a m anpag e:
$ man discover
$ man 8 discover
If you are not sure about a command you need to use, enter the man command with the -k
option to obtain a list of commands that are related to the keyword. For example:
# man -k keyword
Related Information
This section provides pointers to the Web sites for related software products and provides
references to useful third-party p ublications. The location of each Web s ite or link to a particular
topic is sub ject to change witho ut notice by the site p rovid er.
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