Table Of Contents - IBM Cluster 1350 Installation And Service

Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Safety and environmental notices . . . xi
Safety notices . . . .
Safety Information .
Environmental notices . .
Product recycling and disposal .
Part 1. Introduction to Cluster 1350
Chapter 1. System overview . . . . . . 3
Related Topics . . . .
Part 2. Installation . . . . . . . . . 11
Chapter 2. Unpacking the eServer
Cluster 1350 . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Chapter 3. Placing the cabinets . . . . 15
Customer responsibilities .
Installer responsibilities .
Cabinet placement .
Chapter 4. Cabling. . . . . . . . . . 17
Overview of Cluster 1350 cabling .
VLAN options . .
General information .
Attaching the cables .
1-GB Ethernet cabling .
High-speed (Myrinet) switch cabling .
10/100/1000 Ethernet cabling .
Fibre Channel cabling .
KVM cabling . . . .
Remote Console Manager (RCM) cabling
Replacing a defective cable in a harness .
Chapter 5. Power up the cluster . . . . 31
Initial Cluster 1350 power-on procedure .
Checking connections in the Expansion cabinets
Checking connections in the Primary cabinet .
Power-on the Expansion cabinets .
Power-on the Primary cabinet .
Lights out or brown out .
Related topics . . .
Chapter 6. Software installation . . . . 35
Software Version Matrix .
Download link for drivers and firmware
Install a supported distribution of Linux.
Installing Red Hat Linux 7.3 or 8 .
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Installing SuSE Linux 8 or 8.1 .
Installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 7
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Install Cluster Systems Management (CSM)
Pre-installation tasks .
Installing CSM on the Management Node .
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Configure the Storage nodes.
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Prerequisites .
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Issues . .
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Copy the system image out to all nodes in the
cluster . . .
1 Test the configuration .
Chapter 7. Cluster management . . . . 51
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Chapter 8. Remote access . . . . . . 53
Remote power .
Remote console .
Chapter 9. Cluster power down . . . . 55
Power down the system .
Lights out or brown out .
Related topics
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Part 3. Service . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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Chapter 10. Hardware/software problem
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How to use this information .
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Isolating network, node, and Linux problems .
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Isolating hardware problems
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Isolating software problems .
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SNMP monitoring .
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Setting up SNMP alerts from Myrinet
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Resetting RSA cards
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Checking service processor logs
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Problem determination references .
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Chapter 11. Management, Cluster and
Storage Nodes . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Disk drive failure on the Management Node .
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Disk drive failure on a Cluster Node .
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Disk drive failure on a Storage Node .
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Systemboard failures .
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Other Cluster Node Problems .
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x335 problems
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BladeCenter problems .
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Additional Information
Chapter 12. Power problems . . . . . 79
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No power to multiple devices .
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No power to an individual device .
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