HP XC System Software Administration Guide Version 3.0

3 Managing System Services
HP XC System Services..........................................................................................................................43
Displaying Services Information...............................................................................................................45
Displaying All Services.....................................................................................................................45
Displaying the Nodes That Provide a Specified Service.........................................................................46
Displaying the Services Provided by a Specified Node..........................................................................46
Restarting a Service...............................................................................................................................47
Stopping a Service................................................................................................................................47
Adding a Service..................................................................................................................................47
Understanding the roles_services.ini File.............................................................................................47
Understanding the .ini File for a Service..............................................................................................48
Adding a Service to an Existing Role..................................................................................................51
Creating a Role and Adding a Service to It.........................................................................................52
Global System Services..........................................................................................................................53
4 Managing Licenses
License Manager and License File...........................................................................................................55
Determining If the License Manager Is Running.........................................................................................55
Starting and Stopping the License Manager.............................................................................................55
Starting the License Manager............................................................................................................55
Stopping the License Manager..........................................................................................................56
Restarting the License Manager.........................................................................................................56
5 Managing the Configuration and Management Database
Accessing the Configuration and Management Database...........................................................................57
Querying the Configuration and Management Database...........................................................................57
Displaying Configuration Details........................................................................................................57
Displaying the Nodes That Provide a Specified Service.........................................................................58
Finding and Setting System Attribute Values..............................................................................................59
Backing Up the Configuration Database..................................................................................................59
Restoring the Configuration Database from a Backup File...........................................................................59
Archiving Metrics Data from the Configuration Database............................................................................59
Restoring the Metrics Data from an Archive File ........................................................................................60
Purging Metrics Data from the Configuration Database..............................................................................60
Dumping the Configuration Database......................................................................................................60
6 Monitoring the System
Monitoring Strategy...............................................................................................................................61
Monitoring Tools...................................................................................................................................61
Commands for Monitoring Node Status..............................................................................................62
Nagios...........................................................................................................................................62
Nan Notification Aggregator and Delimiter.........................................................................................68
Supermon.......................................................................................................................................68
The syslog and syslog-ng Services......................................................................................................68
The collectl Utility.............................................................................................................................69
Running the collectl Utility from the Command Line..........................................................................69
Running the collectl Utility as a Service..........................................................................................70
Running the collectl Utility in a Batch Job Submission.......................................................................71
Displaying System Environment Data........................................................................................................71
Displaying System Statistics....................................................................................................................72
Displaying System Sensors from the Command Line..............................................................................72
Monitoring Processor Usage and Load from the Command Line.............................................................73
Monitoring Memory from the Command Line.......................................................................................73
Monitoring Paging and Swap Data from the Command Line..................................................................73
System Monitoring with the Nagios GUI.............................................................................................74
Logging Node Events............................................................................................................................74
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