Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters

Chapter 3. System administration

Recognizing that there are many Linux administration guides and most everyday administration tasks are covered by SuSE Administration Guide provided on the distribution CDs, in this chapter we concentrate on a brief introduction to local and cluster system administration. We describe the administration tools on a Linux system and discuss user administration issues, logical volume management and selected network topics. We also describe system update and system backup possibilities.

With or without CSM, a cluster or enterprise environment with more than a single Linux system will challenge an administrator. Administration of many network systems can be just a sum of single system administration tasks, but in this ...