About This Guide

This guide provides information about SGI Cluster Manager for Linux, which provides highly available services for SGI Altix servers. An optional product provides high-availability services for CXFS clustered filesystems, local XVM logical volumes, the Data Migration Facility (DMF), and the Tape Management Facility (TMF).

Related Publications

The following publications contain additional information that may be helpful:

  • SGI ProPack for Linux and SGI Altix documentation:

    • NIS Administrator's Guide

    • Personal System Administration Guide

    • SGI ProPack for Linux Start Here

    • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for SGI Altix Systems

    • SGI Altix 330 System User's Guide

    • SGI Altix 350 System User's Guide

    • SGI Altix 3000 User's Guide

    • SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 User's Guide

    • SGI Altix 4700 System User's Guide

    • Performance Co-Pilot for IA-64 Linux User's and Administrator's Guide

    • SGI L1 and L2 Controller Software User's Guide

    • SGI Altix Systems Dual-Port Gigabit Ethernet Board User's Guide

  • CXFS Administration Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage

  • DMF Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage

  • TMF Administrator's Guide

  • XVM Volume Manager Administrator's Guide

  • TPM Installation Instructions and User's Guide for SGI TP9100

  • SGI InfiniteStorage TP9300 and TP9300S RAID User's Guide

  • SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9400 and SGI® InfiniteStorage TP9500 and TP9500S RAID User's Guide

  • SGI InfiniteStorage TP9500 and TP9700 RAID User's Guide

  • SGI TPSSM Administration Guide

SGI Cluster Manager man pages:

  • clulockd(8)

  • clumembd(8)

  • cluquorumd(8)

  • clurmtabd(8)

  • clusvcmgrd(8)

  • sgicm-config-cluster(8)

  • sgicm-config-cluster-cmd(8)

Other man pages:

  • kermit(1)

  • minicom(1)

  • exports(5)

For more information about Samba, see:

http://www.samba.org/samba/docs

Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:

  • See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.

  • View release notes on your system by accessing the README file(s) for the product. This is usually located in the /usr/share/doc/ productname directory, although file locations may vary.

  • View man pages by typing man title at a command line.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

GUI 

This font denotes the names of graphical user interface (GUI) elements such as windows, screens, dialog boxes, menus, toolbars, icons, buttons, boxes, fields, and lists.

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