HP XC System Software Administration Guide Version 3.2

5 Managing Licenses......................................................................................................79
5.1 License Manager and License File...................................................................................................79
5.2 Determining If the License Manager Is Running............................................................................79
5.3 Starting and Stopping the License Manager...................................................................................79
5.3.1 Starting the License Manager..................................................................................................80
5.3.2 Stopping the License Manager................................................................................................80
5.3.3 Restarting the License Manager..............................................................................................80
6 Managing the Configuration and Management Database....................................81
6.1 Accessing the Configuration and Management Database..............................................................81
6.2 Querying the Configuration and Management Database...............................................................81
6.2.1 Displaying Configuration Details...........................................................................................81
6.2.2 Displaying the Nodes That Provide a Specified Service.........................................................82
6.2.3 Displaying Blade Enclosure Information................................................................................83
6.3 Finding and Setting System Attribute Values.................................................................................83
6.4 Backing Up the Configuration Database.........................................................................................83
6.5 Restoring the Configuration Database from a Backup File............................................................83
6.6 Archiving Sensor Data from the Configuration Database..............................................................83
6.7 Restoring the Sensor Data from an Archive File ............................................................................84
6.8 Purging Sensor Data from the Configuration and Management Database....................................84
6.9 Dumping the Configuration and Management Database..............................................................85
7 Monitoring the System.................................................................................................87
7.1 Monitoring Tools.............................................................................................................................87
7.2 Monitoring Strategy........................................................................................................................88
7.3 Displaying System Environment Data............................................................................................89
7.4 Monitoring Disks.............................................................................................................................90
7.5 Displaying System Statistics............................................................................................................90
7.5.1 Displaying System Sensors from the Command Line............................................................90
7.5.2 Monitoring Processor Usage and Load from the Command Line..........................................91
7.5.3 Monitoring Memory from the Command Line.......................................................................91
7.5.4 Monitoring Paging and Swap Data from the Command Line................................................91
7.6 Logging Node Events......................................................................................................................92
7.6.1 Understanding the Event Logging Structure..........................................................................92
7.6.2 The syslog-ng.conf Rules File..................................................................................................92
7.6.3 Modifying the syslog-ng Rules Files.......................................................................................93
7.7 The collectl Utility...........................................................................................................................94
7.7.1 Running the collectl Utility from the Command Line............................................................94
7.7.2 Running the collectl Utility as a Service..................................................................................95
7.7.3 Running the collectl Utility in a Batch Job Submission...........................................................96
7.8 HP Graph.........................................................................................................................................97
7.9 The resmon Utility.........................................................................................................................101
7.10 The netdump and crash Utilities.................................................................................................102
7.10.1 Installing Netdump and Crash............................................................................................102
7.10.2 Configuring Netdump.........................................................................................................103
7.10.2.1 Configuring the Netdump Client................................................................................103
7.10.2.2 Configuring the Netdump-Server...............................................................................103
7.10.3 Starting Netdump................................................................................................................103
7.10.4 Obtaining the Kernel Dump................................................................................................104
7.10.5 Using the Crash Utility to Analyze a Kernel Dump File.....................................................104
7.10.6 Using the Crash Utility to Analyze a Live System..............................................................104
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