Chapter 2. The Installation Process; Major Steps In Installing And Configuring Rs/6000 Sp Software - IBM RS/6000 SP Problem Determination Manual

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Chapter 2. The Installation Process

Installing the RS/6000 SP system includes installing both hardware and software.
Before RS/6000 SP system hardware and software are installed, a detailed plan
should be created. For details of RS/6000 SP site planning, refer to RS/6000 SP:
Site Planning , GC23-3905.
Details of RS/6000 SP hardware installation are covered in Volume 1: Installation
and CE Operations , GC23-3903.
Details of RS/6000 SP software planning and installation procedures are covered
in RS/6000 SP: System Planning , GC23-3902 and in RS/6000 SP: Installation
Guide , GC23-3898.
References to other RS/6000 SP hardware and software manuals can be found in
IBM RS/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems Library , GC23-3868.
For details on the installation of RS/6000 SP, refer to RS/6000 SP: Installation
Guide , GC23-3898, Chapter 2, "Installing and Configuring the RS/6000 SP
System." For important tips, in an easy-to-use cookbook format, see RS/6000
Scalable POWERparallel Systems: PSSP Version 2 Technical Presentation ,
SG24-4542, Chapter 3, "Installing and Configuring the SP System."
For the purpose of this book, we assume that detailed site planning has been
carried out, RS/6000 SP hardware has been correctly installed, and RS/6000 SP
software planning has already completed. We are now ready to install RS/6000
SP software. This chapter deals with explaining checkpoints at various stages of
the PSSP software install process and provides tips to resolve general problems.

2.1 Major Steps in Installing and Configuring RS/6000 SP Software

This chapter follows RS/6000 SP: Installation Guide , GC23-3898, Chapter 2.
"Installing and Configuring the RS/6000 SP System," which explains each of the
installation steps in detail. Therefore, this chapter should be read if you need
tips to solve or avoid installation problems, or if you need to understand various
checkpoints in the install process. Following are the major checkpoints in the
installation of the RS/6000 SP system.
1. Setting up the Control Workstation
3. The install_cw script
4. The setup_server script
6. Post-install customizations
The following section discusses the diagnostics for each of these steps.
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2. Authentication services
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