CSM guide for the PSSP System Administrator
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
IBM, International Technical Support Organization
2003.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | IBM redbooks.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009644288806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front cover
- Contents
- Notices
- Trademarks
- Preface
- The team that wrote this redbook
- Become a published author
- Comments welcome
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 History and roots of CSM for AIX
- 1.2 CSM 1.3 for AIX 5L
- 1.3 Our test environment
- 1.4 Topics not covered
- 1.5 Additional references
- Chapter 2. Planning
- 2.1 Differences between PSSP and CSM
- 2.1.1 PSSP transition
- 2.1.2 Hardware requirements
- 2.1.3 Software requirements
- 2.1.4 License
- 2.2 Control workstation and boot-install server
- 2.2.1 Management server
- 2.2.2 NIM resource server
- 2.2.3 HACWS
- 2.3 SP frames and nodes
- 2.3.1 The SP model of frames and nodes
- 2.3.2 Frame
- 2.3.3 Node numbering and naming
- 2.3.4 Managed nodes
- 2.3.5 Remote power
- 2.3.6 Remote console
- 2.3.7 Node definition
- 2.4 Networking
- 2.4.1 Administrative VLAN
- 2.4.2 Management VLAN
- 2.4.3 Public VLAN
- 2.5 CSM license and components
- 2.5.1 Try and Buy license
- 2.5.2 CSM LPP filesets
- 2.5.3 Other AIX software
- 2.5.4 Open source software
- 2.6 Configuration options that fit your needs
- 2.6.1 Installation choices
- 2.6.2 Security
- 2.6.3 Time service choices - Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- 2.6.4 User directory mounting choices - automounter
- 2.6.5 System file management choices - file collections
- 2.6.6 User account management choices
- 2.6.7 Accounting choices
- 2.7 Cluster-related licensed programs
- 2.7.1 GPFS
- 2.7.2 HACMP
- 2.7.3 LoadLeveler
- 2.7.4 PE
- 2.7.5 Parallel ESSL
- 2.7.6 VSD
- Chapter 3. Installation
- 3.1 Preparing the management server
- 3.1.1 Configure RS-232 control lines
- 3.1.2 Tune network settings
- 3.1.3 Load filesets
- 3.1.4 Create file systems
- 3.2 Installing the management server
- 3.2.1 Install prerequisite software
- 3.2.2 Copy software images
- 3.2.3 Install management software.
- 3.2.4 Set up the authentication environment
- 3.2.5 Configure the management server
- 3.2.6 NTP configuration
- 3.3 Defining nodes to be managed
- 3.3.1 Defining hardware control points
- 3.3.2 Listing candidate nodes
- 3.3.3 Acquire the hardware Ethernet address
- 3.4 Customization of managed nodes
- 3.5 Installing and configuring managed nodes
- 3.5.1 CSM and PSSP relationship to NIM
- 3.5.2 Preparing for installation in CSM
- 3.5.3 Preparing for installation in NIM
- 3.6 Post-install customization
- 3.7 The setup_server command
- 3.8 CSM software maintenance
- 3.9 nodecond vs. netboot
- Chapter 4. PSSP SDR vs. RSCT SR
- 4.1 SDR architecture summary
- 4.2 Data in the SDR
- 4.3 RSCT system registry overview
- 4.3.1 The distributed RMC infrastructure
- 4.3.2 Where system registry data is stored
- 4.3.3 Querying a machine's RMC "personality"
- 4.4 CSM data in the system registry
- 4.4.1 Persistent data on the CSM clients
- 4.4.2 Persistent data on the CSM management server
- 4.4.3 Dynamic CSM data
- 4.5 Listing configuration data: splstdata equivalents
- 4.5.1 splstdata options that have no equivalent in CSM
- 4.5.2 Configuration data not stored in the database
- 4.5.3 splstdata options that do have a CSM equivalent
- 4.5.4 Node groups
- Chapter 5. Administration
- 5.1 Node groupings
- 5.2 CFM versus file collections
- 5.3 User management
- 5.3.1 User management with CFM
- 5.3.2 User management with NIS
- 5.3.3 User management with LDAP
- 5.3.4 Home directory access
- 5.4 Cluster startup and shutdown
- 5.5 Software maintenance
- 5.5.1 Maintaining software with NIM
- 5.5.2 Maintaining software with CFM
- 5.5.3 Using dsh
- 5.6 Backups
- 5.6.1 mksysb backups
- 5.6.2 CSM data backups
- 5.6.3 Recovery tips
- 5.7 Accounting
- 5.8 Remote command execution
- 5.8.1 dsh
- 5.8.2 DCEM
- 5.9 Hardware control.
- 5.9.1 Hardware control in PSSP
- 5.9.2 CSM hardware control architecture
- 5.9.3 Remote console access in CSM (rconsole)
- 5.9.4 Remote power control in CSM (rpower)
- 5.9.5 Additional CSP hardware control commands
- 5.9.6 Network booting and the netboot command
- 5.9.7 Getting whole-cluster summaries similar to spmon
- 5.10 Microcode updates
- 5.11 Additional administration tools (snap commands)
- Chapter 6. Monitoring
- 6.1 Architecture difference
- 6.2 RMC resource classes and manager
- 6.3 Defining a monitor with predefined resource class
- 6.3.1 mkcondition
- 6.3.2 mkresponse
- 6.3.3 mkcondresp and startcondresp
- 6.3.4 Event and response on the same server
- 6.3.5 Event on managed nodes, response on management server
- 6.3.6 Event on all managed nodes and the management server
- 6.3.7 Event on some managed nodes
- 6.3.8 Event and response on the management server
- 6.3.9 Event and response on different managed nodes
- 6.3.10 Monitoring errlog
- 6.3.11 Generating AIX error log or BSD syslog entries
- 6.3.12 Sending SNMP traps
- 6.4 Defining custom monitors
- 6.4.1 CFMRootModTime
- 6.5 ACL, logs, and relevant commands
- 6.6 Visual cluster monitoring
- Chapter 7. Security and access control
- 7.1 Overview of PSSP's and CSM's security models
- 7.2 Available remote commands options
- 7.2.1 The rsh and ssh commands
- 7.2.2 Kerberizing rsh/rcp in CSM
- 7.3 Security for CSM internal cluster components
- 7.3.1 Host Based Authentication (HBA) in RSCT
- 7.3.2 RMC access control files and identity mapping service
- 7.4 Least privilege administration
- 7.5 Hardware control and serial connections access
- 7.6 Securing Web-based System Manager
- 7.7 Access control relating to NIM
- Appendix A. Command cross-references
- Appendix B. Cluster startup and shutdown
- B.1 Monitoring node status for startup and shutdown.
- B.2 Detecting node startup completion
- B.3 Responding to status changes
- B.3.1 Defining the monitored conditions
- B.3.2 Defining the response to the conditions
- B.3.3 Making the status updates available to scripts
- B.3.4 Activating the ERRM responses
- B.4 Cluster startup and shutdown processing
- B.4.1 Controlling the startup and shutdown sequencing
- Appendix C. NIM examples
- C.1 NIM integration
- C.2 NIM resources
- C.2.1 NIM resource groups
- C.2.2 Resources allocated for an install
- C.3 Installing additional filesets
- C.4 Using NIM to install and configure LDAP clients
- C.4.1 The installation logic
- C.5 A working example of openssh installation
- C.5.1 The installation logic
- Appendix D. Installation process details
- D.1 A closer look at CSM's updatenode script
- D.1.1 Remote shell setup
- D.1.2 Prepare RSCT
- D.1.3 Prepare managed node configuration data
- D.1.4 Perform customization on the node
- D.1.5 A close look at the updatenode.client script
- D.1.6 Record update completion
- D.1.7 Distribute configuration files
- D.2 CSM installation details using a NIM install
- D.2.1 Populating the NIM database from CSM
- D.2.2 The mechanics of integrated AIX and CSM installation via NIM
- D.2.3 A closer look at csmsetupnim
- D.2.4 NIM installation processing
- D.2.5 A closer look at csmprereboot
- D.2.6 Additional NIM processing
- D.2.7 A closer look at the csmfirstboot script
- D.3 Comparison with PSSP
- D.4 Using alternate NIM servers
- D.4.1 Defining NIM machine resources
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Appendix E. Additional material
- E.1 Locating the sample code
- Related publications
- IBM Redbooks
- Other publications
- Online resources
- How to get IBM Redbooks
- Index
- Back cover.
