HP XC System Software Administration Guide Version 3.1

• 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 the network.
• http://systemimager.org
Home page for SystemImager®, which is the underlying technology that is used to distribute the
golden image to all nodes and distribute configuration changes throughout the system.
• http://linuxvirtualserver.org
Home page for the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), the load balancer running on the Linux operating
system that distributes login requests on the HP XC system.
• 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/
Web site 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.
Related Software Products and Additional Publications This section provides pointers to Web sites for
related software products and provides references to useful third-party publications. The location of each
Web site or link to a particular topic is subject to change without notice by the site provider.
Linux Web Sites
• http://www.redhat.com
Home page for Red Hat®, distributors of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server, a Linux
distribution with which the HP XC operating environment is compatible.
• http://www.linux.org/docs/index.html
This Web site for the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) contains guides covering various aspects
of working with Linux, from creating your own Linux system from scratch to bash script writing.
This site also includes links to Linux HowTo documents, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and
manpages.
• http://www.linuxheadquarters.com
Web site providing documents and tutorials for the Linux user. Documents contain instructions on
installing and using applications for Linux, configuring hardware, and a variety of other topics.
• http://www.gnu.org
Home page for the GNU Project. This site provides online software and information for many programs
and utilities that are commonly used on GNU/Linux systems. Online information include guides for
using the bash shell, emacs, make, cc, gdb, and more.
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