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Administration Guide


Installing CSM

The IBM CSM for Linux: Software Planning and Installation Guide provides a process for installing and configuring CSM on an existing Linux system, or for doing a full installation of both CSM and the operating system. The installation process allows you to do the following:

  1. Install IBM CSM and RSCT on the management server.
  2. Add nodes to the cluster during the installation process.
  3. Install and configure IBM CSM and RSCT CSM on all nodes in a cluster from a single management server.

The following commands and files are used during installation:

installms
Installs CSM on the management server.

definenode
Gathers all the information necessary to install the nodes.

nodedef file
Node definition file for cluster nodes.

csmsetupks
Sets up Kickstart configuration for the nodes.

kscfg.tmpl
Linux operating system configuration file used by Red Hat Kickstart.

getmacs
Automatically gathers and stores MAC addresses in the CSM database.

updatenode
Updates (installs) CSM packages and CFM configuration files across the cluster.

installnode
Installs both the operating system and CSM on the nodes, and brings up the necessary servers on them.

monitorinstall
Displays the status of the installation on each of the nodes.

For more information about CSM commands, see the man pages or CSM Commands.


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