SGI® Tempo System Administrator's Guide

Document Number: 007-4993-004

Front Matter

| List of Figures | List of Examples | List of Tables | List of Procedures |


Table of Contents

New Features in This Manual
Major Documentation Changes

About This Guide
Related Publications
Obtaining Publications
Conventions
Reader Comments

1. SGI Altix ICE 8200 Series System Overview
Hardware Overview
Networks
Network Interface Naming Conventions

2. System Discovery, Installation, and Configuration
configure-cluster Command
Configuring MFG-installed SGI Altix ICE System
Installing Software on the System Admin Controller
discover Command
Installing Software on the Rack Leader Controllers and Service Nodes
discover-rack Command
Discovering Compute Nodes
Service Node Installation and Configuration
Configuring the Service Node
Setting Up an NFS Home Server on a Service Node for Your Altix ICE System
Service Node NFS Server Alternate: Re-exporting House NFS Servers
Setting Up a NIS Server for Your Altix ICE System
Installing SGI Tempo Patches and Updating SGI Altix ICE Systems
Upgrading from SGI ProPack 5 SP4 to SGI ProPack 5 SP5

3. System Operation
Software Image Management
Power Management Commands
C3 Commands
cadmin: SGI Tempo Administrative Interface
Console Management
Keeping System Time Synchronized
Changing the Size of /tmp on Compute Nodes
Disabling Swap Space
Changing the Size of Per-node Swap Space
Viewing the Compute Node Read-Write Quotas
Backing up and Restoring the System Database

4. System Fabric Management
InfiniBand Fabric Management

5. System Maintenance, Monitoring, and Debugging
Maintenance Procedures
Inventory Verification Tool
System Monitoring Overview
System Monitoring Operation
Monitoring System Metrics with Performance Co-Pilot
Troubleshooting
kdump Utility
System Firmware

Index