Communicating With The System; The Sgi Management Center Graphical User Interface; Powering-On And Off From The Sgi Management Center Interface - Silicon Graphics UV 2000 System User's Manual

Communicating with the System

The SGI Management Center Graphical User Interface

Powering-On and Off From the SGI Management Center Interface

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The two primary ways to communicate with and administer the SGI UV 2000 system are through
SGI Management Center interface or the UV command line interface (CLI).
The SGI Management Center interface is a server monitoring and management system. The SGI
Management Center GUI provides status metrics on operational aspects for each node in a system.
The interface can also be customized to meet the specific needs of individual systems.
The SGI Management Center System Administrator's Guide (P/N 007-5642-00x) provides
information on using the interface to monitor and maintain your SGI UV 2000 system. Also, see
Chapter 2 in this guide for additional reference information on the SGI Management Center
interface.
Commands issued from the SGI Management Center interface are typically sent to all enclosures
and blades in the system (up to a maximum 128 blades per SSI) depending on set parameters. SGI
Management Center services are started and stopped from scripts that exist in
/etc/init.d
SGI Management Center, is commonly installed in /opt/sgi/sgimc, and is controlled by one of
these services—this allows you to manage SGI Management Center services using standard Linux
tools such as chkconfig and service.
If your SGI Management Center interface is not already running, or you are bringing it up for the
first time, use the following steps:
1. Power on the server running the SGI Management Center interface.
2. Open an ssh or other terminal session command line console to the SMN using a remote
workstation or local VGA terminal.
3. Use the information in the section "Power Connections Overview" on page 2 to ensure that
all system components are supplied with power and ready for bring up.
4. Log in to the SMN as root (the default password is sgisgi).
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