NonStop Cluster Essentials Installation and Quick Start Guide

action. For more information, see the NonStop I/O Essentials Installation and Quick Start
Guide.
• The HP NonStop Cluster Performance Essentials plug-in can be added to provide integrated
performance monitoring. For more information, see the NonStop Performance Essentials
Installation and Quick Start Guide.
After all components and prerequisites are installed, see section “Quick Start Guide” (page 23)
for a step-by-step process of getting started using NonStop Cluster Essentials. For more information
on the individual NonStop Cluster applications and HP SIM plug-in components, see the online
help available from within those applications or browser windows.
Features
NonStop Cluster Essentials provides the following features:
• Availability – built-in fault tolerance to support multiple HP SIM Central Management Servers
(CMSs) and/or NonStop system consoles (NSCs).
• Scalability – scalable to support clusters containing hundreds of systems.
• Security – all communication between NonStop Cluster Essentials and managed systems is
secure (invoked via SSH) and all data encrypted.
Components
NonStop Cluster Essentials is comprised of both client and server components. The client component
is installed on either a Windows or Linux CMS on which HP SIM is already installed. The client
installer includes all of the components required to provide integrated cluster management from
that CMS. The server component, NonStop and Linux components are installed on all managed
NonStop and Linux systems to enable them to be managed by NonStop Cluster Essentials.
See the following sections of this manual for information on:
• “Prerequisites for NonStop Cluster Essentials” (page 9)
• “Installing NonStop Cluster Essentials” (page 15)
• “Quick Start Guide” (page 23)
• “Additional (Optional) Configuration ” (page 27)
8 Introduction to NonStop Cluster Essentials