Administration Guide
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:
- Install IBM CSM and RSCT on the management server.
- Add nodes to the cluster during the installation process.
- 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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