HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 4.0

software components are generic, and the HP XC adjective is not added to any reference to a
third-party or open source command or product name. For example, the SLURM srun command
is simply referred to as the srun command.
The location of each website or link to a particular topic listed in this section is subject to change
without notice by the site provider.
• http://www.platform.com
Home page for Platform Computing Inc, the developer of the Load Sharing Facility (LSF).
LSF with the Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management (SLURM), the batch system
resource manager used on an HP XC system, is tightly integrated with the HP XC and
SLURM software. Information specific to using LSF with SLURM is provided in the HP XC
documentation set.
Standard LSF is also available as an alternative resource management system (instead of
LSF with SLURM) for HP XC. This is the version of LSF that is widely discussed on the
Platform Computing Inc website.
LSF procedures and information supplied in the HP XC documentation, particularly the
documentation relating to the LSF integration with SLURM, supersedes the information
supplied in the LSF manuals from Platform Computing Inc.
LSF man pages supplied by Platform Computing Inc are installed by default. The lsf_diff(7)
man page supplied by HP describes LSF command differences when using LSF 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
• https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/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.
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