HP XC System Software Hardware Preparation Guide Version 3.1

— Administering Platform LSF
— Administration Primer
— Platform LSF Reference
— Quick Reference Card
— Running Jobs with Platform LSF
LSF procedures and information supplied in the HP XC documentation, particularly the documentation
relating to the LSF-HPC integration with SLURM, supersedes the information supplied in the LSF
manuals from Platform Computing Corporation.
The Platform Computing Corporation LSF manpages are installed by default. The lsf_diff(7) manpage
supplied by HP describes LSF command differences when using LSF-HPC with SLURM on an HP
XC system
The following documents in the HP XC System Software Documentation Set provide information
about administering and using LSF on an HP XC system:
— HP XC System Software Administration Guide
— HP XC System Software User's Guide
• http://www.llnl.gov/LCdocs/slurm/
Documentation for the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), which is integrated
with LSF to manage job and compute resources on an HP XC system.
• http://www.nagios.org/
Home page for Nagios®, a system and network monitoring application that is integrated into an HP
XC system to provide monitoring capabilities. 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. In the HP XC system,
RRDtool is used 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 HP XC system monitoring.
• http://www.llnl.gov/linux/pdsh/
Home page for the parallel distributed shell (pdsh), which executes commands across HP XC client
nodes in parallel.
• http://www.balabit.com/products/syslog_ng/
Home page for syslog-ng, a logging tool that replaces the traditional syslog functionality. The
syslog-ng tool is a flexible and scalable audit trail processing tool. It provides a centralized, securely
stored log of all devices on the network.
• http://systemimager.org
Home page for SystemImager®, which is the underlying technology that is used to distribute the
golden image to all nodes and distribute configuration changes throughout the system.
• http://linuxvirtualserver.org
Home page for the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), the load balancer running on the Linux operating
system that distributes login requests on the HP XC system.
• http://www.macrovision.com
Home page for Macrovision®, developer of the FLEXlm™ license management utility, which is used
for HP XC license management.
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