HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.2

• http://www.nagios.org/

Home page for Nagios®, a system and network monitoring application that is integrated

into an HP XC system to provide monitoring capabilities. Nagios watches specified hosts

and services and issues alerts when problems occur and when problems are resolved.

• http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

Home page of RRDtool, a round-robin database tool and graphing system. In the HP XC

system, RRDtool is used with Nagios to provide a graphical view of system status.

• 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 distributes the

golden image to all nodes and distributes 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/

website 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 website contains a link

to the MySQL documentation, particularly the MySQL Reference Manual.

Related Software Products and Additional Publications This section provides pointers to websites

for related software products and provides references to useful third-party publications. The

location of each website or link to a particular topic is subject to change without notice by the

site provider.