HP XC System Software Administration Guide Version 3.0

• To view LSF HPC manpages supplied by Platform Computing Corporation, use the following
command:
$ man lsf_command_name
• The LSF HPC Administrator and Reference guides developed by Platform are also available at:
http://www.hp.com/techservers/clusters/xc_clusters.html
• http://www.llnl.gov/LCdocs/slurm/
Home page for the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), which is integrated with
LSF to manage job and compute resources on an HP XC system.
• http://www.nagios.org/
Home page for Nagios®, a system and network monitoring application. Nagios watches specified
hosts and services and issues alerts when problems occur and when problems are resolved. Nagios
provides the monitoring capabilities on an HP XC system.
• http://supermon.sourceforge.net/
Home page for Supermon, a high-speed cluster monitoring system that emphasizes low perturbation,
high sampling rates, and an extensible data protocol and programming interface. Supermon works in
conjunction with Nagios to provide HP XC system monitoring.
• http://www.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh/
Home page for the parallel distributed shell (pdsh), which executes commands across HP XC client
nodes in parallel.
• 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 and scalable audit trail processing tool. It provides a centralized, securely
stored log of all devices on your network.
• http://systemimager.org
Home page for SystemImager®, which is the underlying technology that is used to install the HP XC
software, distribute the golden image, and distribute configuration changes.
• http://www.etnus.com
Home page for Etnus, Inc., maker of the TotalView® parallel debugger.
• http://www.macrovision.com
Home page for Macrovision®, developer of the FLEXlm™ license management utility, which is used
for HP XC license management.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/
Home page for modules, which provide for easy dynamic modification of a user's environment through
modulefiles, which typically instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables.
• http://dev.mysql.com/
Home page for MySQL AB, developer of the MySQL database. This Web site contains a link to the
MySQL documentation, particularly the MySQL Reference Manual .
Manpages
Manpages provide online reference and command information from the command line. Manpages are
supplied with the HP XC system for standard HP XC components, Linux user commands, LSF commands, and
other software components that are distributed with the HP XC system.
Manpages for third-party vendor software components may be provided as a part of the deliverables for
that component.
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