HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 3.1

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.
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/modules/
Web site for Modules, which provide for easy dynamic modification of a user's environment through
modulefiles, which typically instruct the module command to alter or set shell environment variables.
• http://dev.mysql.com/
Home page for MySQL AB, developer of the MySQL database. This Web site contains a link to the
MySQL documentation, particularly the MySQL Reference Manual.
Related Software Products and Additional Publications This section provides pointers to Web sites for
related software products and provides references to useful third-party publications. The location of each
Web site or link to a particular topic is subject to change without notice by the site provider.
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