User`s guide

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Contents
Third-Party Clustering Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Voltaire Product Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
SMC Product Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Platform Manage Product Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
QLogic Product Guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Customer Service and Removing Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Contacting the SGI Customer Service Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Cluster Administration Training from SGI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
2. Administrative Tips and Adding a Node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Administrative Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Start the Platform Manager GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Head Node Information Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Adding a Node Starting from the Main GUI Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Adding a Cluster Compute Node. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Selecting the Server Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Network BMC Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Select Preferred Operating System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Node Network Configuration Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
DNS and NTP Configuration Screen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
NIS Configuration Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Platform Manager Options Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuration Setup Complete Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Checking the Log File Entries (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Setting a Node Failure Alarm on Platform Manage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3. IPMI Commands Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
User Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Typical ipmitool Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Adding a User to the BMC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configuring a NIC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Display a current LAN Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Configure a Static IP Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58