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## About This Guide

This guide is a reference document for people who manage the operation of SGI Altix ICE systems. It describes how to use SGI Tempo systems management software (v2.2) to perform general system discovery, installation, configuration, and operations on SGI Altix ICE systems.

This manual contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 1, “SGI Altix ICE System Overview”

- Chapter 2, “System Discovery, Installation, and Configuration”

- Chapter 3, “System Operation”

- Chapter 4, “System Fabric Management”

- Chapter 5, “System Maintenance, Monitoring, and Debugging”

## Related Publications

This section describes documentation you may find useful, as follows:

- SGI Management Center Installation and Configuration

  This manual is intended for system administrators. It describes how to install and configure the SGI Management Center. A companion manual, SGI Management Center System Administrator's Guide, describes general cluster administration.

- SGI Management Center System Administrator's Guide

  This manual describes how you can monitor and control a cluster using the SGI Management Center. A companion manual, SGI Management Center Installation and Configuration Guide, describes installing and configuring the SGI Management Center

- SGI Altix ICE 8200 System Hardware User's Guide

  This is the hardware user's guide for the SGI Alitx ICE 8200 series systems. It describes the features of the SGI Altix ICE 8200 series system, as well as, troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing.

- SGI Altix ICE 8400 Series System Hardware User's Guide

  This is the hardware user's guide for the SGI Alitx ICE 8400 series systems. It describes the features of the SGI Altix ICE 8400 series system, as well as, troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing.

For a list of current SGI software and hardware manuals, see the SGI Performance Suite 1.0 Start Here:

- SGI documentation supporting SGI Altix ICE systems

- Novell documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11)

- Red Hat documentation for Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 6 (RHEL 6)

- Intel Compiler Documentation

- Intel documentation about Xeon architecture

## Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:

- 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.

- Online versions of the SGI Performance Suite 1.0 Start Here, release notes, which contain the latest information about software and documentation for each SGI Performance Suite product, the list of RPMs distributed with each product can be found in the `/docs` directory on each SGI Performance Suite product media.

- You can view man pages by typing man title on 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.

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