CSM guide for the PSSP System Administrator / [Dino Quintero ...et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quintero, Dino.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parallel processing (Electronic computers).

IBM Cluster systems management.

Physical Description:

xiv, 258 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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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

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Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"October 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342306