Chapter 1 of this book is the updated version of the IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux Overview HOWTO (SA22-7857-00), and Chapters 2-5 are the updated version of the IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux Monitoring HOWTO (SA22-7852-00) that were last published in June, 2001. Chapter 6 is the updated version of the DCEM Administration Guide. This book describes IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux (CSM) and how to use the CSM monitoring function. It also provides reference material about the RSCT Monitoring application, including a summary of components, messages, and predefined monitoring functions.
This book is intended for system administrators who want to use IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux. The system administrator should have experience in UNIX(R) administration and networked systems.
This book contains an overview of IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux (CSM) and information on how to use the Monitoring application, which is available through the command line interface (CLI). This book also contains reference information that describes the underlying system, diagnostic information, commands and scripts, and tables of predefined conditions, expressions, and responses that are packaged with the application.
The following highlighting conventions are used in this book:
Bold | Identifies commands, subroutines, keywords, files, structures, directories, and other items whose names are predefined by the system. Also identifies graphical objects such as buttons, labels, and icons that the user selects. |
Italic | Identifies parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user. |
monospace | Identifies examples of specific data values, examples of text similar to what you might see displayed, examples of portions of program code similar to what you might write as a programmer, messages from the system, or information you should actually type. |
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The IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux publications are available as HTML and PDF files on the CD-ROM in the /doc directory or on the installed system in the /opt/csm/doc directory. The README is available on the CD-ROM in the root directory (/). The file names are as follows:
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Publications for IBM Cluster Systems Management for Linux were also available at the time of this release at the IBM Linux Clusters Web site (http://www.ibm.com/eserver/clusters/linux).
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