Moving from ICLE to ICE-Linux

The last of the major improvements to capture and deployment is the inclusion of a new graphical
partitioning wizard. When deploying a captured image, you can choose either to use the captured
image’s partitioning scheme (which is also a new feature) or to use the graphical wizard, shown in
Figure 2, to build a new partitioning scheme. This wizard has the capabilities to define primary,
extended, and LVM-based logical volume groups.
Figure 2. Graphical Partitioning Wizard
Management and Monitoring
ICE-Linux provides extensive management and monitoring capabilities. The following industry-proven
Linux open source management and monitoring tools have been integrated and configured into ICE-
Linux:
• Nagios is a system and network monitoring application that provides monitoring capabilities for
ICE-Linux. Nagios watches specified hosts and services and issues alerts when problems occur and
when problems are resolved. By default, Nagios is automatically configured to monitor the systems
that you discovered with ICE-Linux and HP SIM.
• RRDtool is a round robin database tool and graphing system. ICE-Linux uses RRDtool with Nagios
to provide a graphical view of system metrics.
• Supermon is 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 and metric data.
• Syslog-ng is a tool used for consolidated logging. Syslog-ng consolidates all the managed
system’s syslog events and stores them into a consolidated log on the CMS.
• Pdsh is a parallel distributed shell command environment that enables you to run commands
across systems in parallel, eliminating the need to run commands on individual systems serially.
In addition to these tools, ICE-Linux supports the following:
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