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## About This Guide

This guide is a reference document for people who manage the operation of SGI Altix ICE 8000 series systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (RHEL5.1) with SGI ProPack 5 for Linux Service Pack 4 (or later). It describes how to use Scali Manage version 5.6.1-1 (or later) management software to perform general system discovery, installation, configuration, and operations on SGI Altix ICE 8000 series systems.

This manual contains the following chapters:

- Chapter 1, “SGI Altix ICE 8000 Series System Overview”

- Chapter 2, “Getting Started with Scali Manage”

- Chapter 3, “System Fabric Management”

- Appendix A, “InfiniBand Fabric Details”

- Appendix B, “InfiniBand Fabric Troubleshooting”

## Related Publications

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

- SGI Altix ICE 8000 System User's Guide

  This is the hardware users guide for the SGI Alitx 8000 series systems. It describes the features of the SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system, as well as, troubleshooting, upgrading, and repairing.

The following manuals for Scali Manage are available from Platform Computing, Inc:

- Scali Manage User's Guide, (2006)

  This document provides an overview of a Scali system in terms of instructions for building a Scali system. Configuration guidelines for hardware and software are covered along with instructions on use and general management of the cluster system.

- Scali Quick Start Guide, (2007)

  This document is for system administrators and provides an overview of how to use Scali Manage to operate your system.

- Scali Manage Installation Guide, (2006)

  This document describes the Scali Manage software installer that helps the user with installation of the OS, Scali software and third-party applications that are installed as RPMs.

For a list of manuals supporting SGI ProPack for Linux releases covering the following topics, see the SGI ProPack 5 for Linux Service Pack 4 Start Here:

- SGI documentation supporting SGI Altix ICE systems

- Novell documentation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10)

- 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 ProPack 5 for Linux Service Pack 4 Start Here, the SGI ProPack 5 SP4 release notes, which contain the latest information about software and documentation in this release, the list of RPMs distributed with SGI ProPack 5 SP4, and a useful migration guide, which contains helpful hints and advice for customers moving from earlier versions of SGI ProPack to SGI ProPack 5, can be found in the `/docs` directory on the SGI ProPack 5 Open/Free Source CD.

  The SGI ProPack 5 for Linux SP4 release notes get installed to the following location on a system running SGI ProPack 5: `/usr/share/doc/sgi-propack-5/README.txt` .

- 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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