Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication is one in a series of books that are written specifically for the IBM System Blue Gene® supercomputer, Blue Gene/Q®, which is the third generation of massively parallel supercomputers from IBM in the Blue Gene series. This book provides an overview of the system administration environment for Blue Gene/Q. It is intended to help administrators understand the tools that are available to maintain this system.
This book details Blue Gene Navigator, which has grown to be a full featured web-based system administration tool on Blue Gene/Q. The book also describes many of the day-to-day administrative functions, such as running diagnostics, performing service actions, and monitoring hardware. There are also sections that cover BGmaster and the Control System processes that it monitors.
This book is intended for Blue Gene/Q system administrators. It helps them use the tools that are available to maintain the Blue Gene/Q system.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1. IBM Blue Gene/Q system overview
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Chapter 2. Navigator
- 2.1 System setup
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2.2 Using the Navigator
- 2.2.1 The Navigator window
- 2.2.2 Security integration
- 2.2.3 Result tables
- 2.2.4 System summary
- 2.2.5 Alerts
- 2.2.6 Jobs and job history
- 2.2.7 Blocks and I/O blocks
- 2.2.8 RAS
- 2.2.9 Environmentals
- 2.2.10 Hardware
- 2.2.11 Hardware replacements
- 2.2.12 Diagnostics
- 2.2.13 Service actions
- 2.2.14 Performance monitoring
- 2.2.15 Knowledge Center
- 2.2.16 Creating blocks with the Block Builder
- Chapter 3. Compute and I/O blocks
- Chapter 4. Configuring I/O nodes
- Chapter 5. Control System console
- Chapter 6. Submitting jobs
- Chapter 7. Reliability, availability, and serviceability
- Chapter 8. Toolkit for Event Analysis and Logging
- Chapter 9. Service actions
- Chapter 10. Diagnostics
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Chapter 11. BGmaster
- 11.1 BGmaster
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11.2 Running bgmaster_server
- 11.2.1 The master_start command
- 11.2.2 The master_status command
- 11.2.3 The binary_status command
- 11.2.4 The bgmaster_server_refresh_config command
- 11.2.5 The binary_wait command
- 11.2.6 The alias_wait command
- 11.2.7 The list_agents command
- 11.2.8 The list_clients command
- 11.2.9 The master_stop command
- 11.2.10 The get_errors command
- 11.2.11 The get_history command
- 11.2.12 The monitor_master command
- 11.3 The bgagentd system process watcher
- 11.4 Configuration
- 11.5 Troubleshooting
- Chapter 12. Midplane Management Control System server
- Chapter 13. Machine controller server
- Chapter 14. The runjob server and runjob mux
- Chapter 15. The Blue Gene Web Services server
- Chapter 16. Real-time server
- Chapter 17. Distributed Control System
- Chapter 18. Security
- Chapter 19. Database
- Chapter 20. Logging
- Chapter 21. The bg.properties file
- Chapter 22. The Coreprocessor tool
- Appendix A. Hardware location naming conventions
- Appendix B. Control System simulator
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM System Blue Gene Solution: Blue Gene/Q System Administration
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2013
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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