HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

• http://www.linuxheadquarters.com
A website that provides Linux documents and tutorials. Documents contain instructions for
installing and using applications for Linux, configuring hardware, and a variety of other
topics.
• http://www.gnu.org
Home page for the GNU Project. This site provides online software and information for
many programs and utilities that are commonly used on GNU/Linux systems. Online
information include guides for using the bash shell, emacs, make, cc, gdb, and more.
Third-party open source software products
The following are useful links to third-party open source software products that have been
integrated into HP Insight Control for Linux. The location of each website or link to a particular
topic is subject to change without notice by the site provider.
• http://www.nagios.org
Home page for Nagios, a system and network monitoring application that provides
monitoring capabilities for HP Insight Control for Linux. Nagios watches specified hosts
and services and issues alerts when problems occur and when problems are resolved.
• http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool
Home page of RRDtool, a round-robin database tool and graphing system. HP Insight
Control for Linux uses RRDtool with Nagios to provide a graphical view of system status.
• http://supermon.sourceforge.net
Home page for Supermon, a high-speed cluster monitoring system that emphasizes low
perturbation, high sampling rates, and an extensible data protocol and programming
interface. Supermon works in conjunction with Nagios to provide system monitoring data.
• https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh.html
Home page for the parallel distributed shell (pdsh), which executes commands across
managed systems in parallel.
• http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng
Home page for syslog-ng, a tool that is used for consolidated logging.
24.3.3 Troubleshooting resources
The HP Insight Control for Linux Installation Guide and HP Insight Control for Linux User Guide each
contain a chapter that describes troubleshooting hints and techniques.
24.4 Typographic conventions
This document uses the following typographical conventions:
Book title The title of a book. On the web, this can be a hyperlink to the
book itself.
Command A command name or command phrase, for example ls -a.
Computer output
Information displayed by the computer.
Ctrl+x or Ctrl-x
A key sequence that indicates you must hold down the keyboard
key labeled Ctrl while you press the letter x.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE The name of an environment variable, for example, PATH.
Key The name of a keyboard key. Return and Enter both refer to the
same key.
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