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NovaScale Master 5.1 Server Add-ons - Installation and Administrator's Guide 

 

 

Figure 2-1.  Windows Installation - NovaScale Master Welcome Page 

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Click Install Now to open the Install page, which allows the selection of the required 
NovaScale Master component: 

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Management Server Add-Ons 

and provides the following information:  

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What to install? 

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What to do now? 

 

Figure 2-2.  Windows Installation - NovaScale Master Install Page 

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Select Management Server Add-Ons, then Windows 32 bits or Windows 64 bits 
operating system according to server type. 

Summary of Contents for NovaScale Master 5.1

Page 1: ...NovaScale Master 5 1 Server Add ons Installation and Administrator s Guide NOVASCALE REFERENCE 86 A2 95ER 02...

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Page 3: ...NOVASCALE NovaScale Master 5 1 Server Add ons Installation and Administrator s Guide Software November 2007 BULL CEDOC 357 AVENUE PATTON B P 20845 49008 ANGERS CEDEX 01 FRANCE REFERENCE 86 A2 95ER 02...

Page 4: ...dering Form also provided at the end of this book Trademarks and Acknowledgements We acknowledge the right of proprietors of trademarks mentioned in this book Intel and Itanium are registered trademar...

Page 5: ...Requirements 6 2 1 6 Restrictions 6 2 2 Installing NovaScale Master Server Add Ons for Windows 7 2 2 1 Prerequisites 7 2 2 2 Installing Free Management Server Add Ons from the CD ROM 7 2 2 3 Installin...

Page 6: ...areESX for VMware ESX Management 24 3 3 3 NSMasterHyperNova for HyperNova Management 35 3 4 Bull Products Server Addons 46 3 4 1 NSMasterDD4A for Bull Dynamic Domains for Applications Management 46 3...

Page 7: ...ation confirmation 29 Figure 3 11 VMware category properties pane 32 Figure 3 12 VMwareESX monitoring information 34 Figure 3 13 VMwareESX reporting information 35 Figure 3 14 HyperNova Add On compone...

Page 8: ...2 2 Management Server Add Ons Installation Requirements 5 Table 2 3 Management Server Add Ons Operational Requirements 6 Table 3 1 GAMTT monitoring services 16 Table 3 2 LSI CIM monitoring services 19...

Page 9: ...er Add Ons Chapter 3 describes for each Server Add On how to configure its elements on the Management server It provides detailed information about all resource properties as well as concrete examples...

Page 10: ...tems whose names are predefined by the system Also identifies graphical objects such as buttons labels and icons that the user selects Italics Identifies chapters sections paragraphs and book names to...

Page 11: ...P trap are generated Note Hardware and OS monitoring for Bull Intel Based platforms are provided by the NovaScale Master Server package not by the Add Ons packages NovaScale Master Server Add Ons exte...

Page 12: ...c host elements are monitored A service can be defined for all hosts or for a list of hosts depending on the OS Windows Linux or both and or on the model Notification properties are defined for each s...

Page 13: ...d the third party management tool Even if the third party management tool may be dedicated to an OS or and a platform type its NovaScale Master Server Add On will be able to be installed on a NovaScal...

Page 14: ...4 NovaScale Master 5 1 Server Add ons Installation and Administrator s Guide...

Page 15: ...and Windows operating systems The principal Requirements are the NovaScale Master Server pre installation and its own requirements See NovaScale Master Installation Guide for details 2 1 2 Required Di...

Page 16: ...r higher Important Contact www lsilogic com web site to download the above versions If not on line contact the Bull support team Note Not supported on Linux IA64 system NSMasterMegaRaidSAS LSI MegaRai...

Page 17: ...to view PDF versions of the NovaScale Master documentation The free Server Add ons are present on the NovaScale Master CD ROM the others must be supplied by your Bull contact 2 2 2 Installing Free Man...

Page 18: ...en the Install page which allows the selection of the required NovaScale Master component Management Server Add Ons and provides the following information What to install What to do now Figure 2 2 Win...

Page 19: ...ders To uninstall NovaScale Master Add Ons components 1 From the Control Panel launch Add Remove Programs 2 Select the required NovaScale Master Server Add Ons components and click Remove Note After u...

Page 20: ...ns are to be installed on the server dedicated to management Acrobat Reader is required to view PDF versions of the NovaScale Master documentation The free Server Add ons are present on the NovaScale...

Page 21: ...ovaScale Master Welcome Page 5 Click Install Now to open the Install page which allows the selection of the required NovaScale Master component Management Server Add Ons and provides the following inf...

Page 22: ...iercetool 5 1 x noarch rpm 2 3 4 Uninstalling NovaScale Master Server Add On Components 1 Log on as root 2 Launch the command rpm e NSMaster tiercetool 5 1 x noarch rpm 2 3 5 Upgrading to a new NovaSc...

Page 23: ...ver name NSMaster config 2 4 2 Categories and Services NovaScale Master Server Add Ons delivers more default monitoring categories and services These categories and services depend on the Operating Sy...

Page 24: ...perties can be edited except the check command For instance to monitor a specific logical drive on a Windows system clone the C service and modify the check command parameters customizing categories t...

Page 25: ...ement GAMTT or GAM is the LSI tool used to survey configure and control RAID provided by LSI MegaRAID Ultra320 SCSI cards See http www lsilogic com products megaraid index html for more information or...

Page 26: ...GAM SNMP agent GAM driver HBA megaRAID0 GAM client GAM server NSMaster Server LSI Logic LSI Logic LSI Logic Console machine Figure 3 1 GAM Monitoring Components 3 1 1 1 Default Categories Services in...

Page 27: ...or Mylex SCSI RAID card managed by GAMTT or GAM management tool This service checks the Host RAID status reported by the associated GAMTT SNMP agent Alerts For NovaScale and Express5800 hosts When an...

Page 28: ...I CIM is the LSI tool used to survey configure and control RAID provided by LSI MegaRAID 22320 SCSI cards See http www lsilogic com products megaraid index html for more information or to download the...

Page 29: ...nents 3 1 2 1 Default Categories Services independent of OS type Targeted OS Model Category Service Check command Any Any LsiCIM RAIDStatus check_LSICIM CTRLstatus check_LSICIM_ctrl Table 3 2 LSI CIM...

Page 30: ...LSI CIM provider 3 1 2 2 check_LSICIM any OS Nagios command The configurable NovaScale Master service check command syntax is check_LSICIM Input N A Output See the output of the check_LSICIM shell com...

Page 31: ...e iSM Client machine Windows Target StoreWay FDA subsystem NS Master Server StoreWay FDA add on SNMP trap mngr SNMP agent software hardware NSMaster Server StoreWay FDA iSM client iSM Server NEC NEC i...

Page 32: ...Server by adding the NovaScale Master Server host address to the agent s SNMP managers list 3 2 1 3 check_NECFDA any OS Nagios command The configurable NovaScale Master service check command syntax is...

Page 33: ...host with a specific OS specified by the Add On Virtual Machine VM a machine that is hosted by a native OS It is represented by a NovaScale Master host with a specific model specified by the Add On Vi...

Page 34: ...e host and the VM hosts When you select a node information about the elements are displayed in the Application pane Figure 3 5 Virtual Manager information pane 3 3 2 NSMasterVMwareESX for VMware ESX M...

Page 35: ...d information about these procedures see the VMware Infrastructure documentations available at http www vmware com support pubs vi_pubs html 3 3 2 2 NovaScale Master Configuration To configure the mon...

Page 36: ...latforms page It is possible To create a new ESX Virtual Platform using the New button To edit or delete a resource using the Edit link To edit a virtual machine using the hostname link When you click...

Page 37: ...erformed by clicking the Discover button or Re discover if in edition mode See below the complete description of the procedure Virtual Machines Discovery The result of the discovery is displayed as a...

Page 38: ...ed in Vmware ESX are automatically unchecked and will be removed from the platform on form validation New VMs must be explicitly checked for being added in the platform to be linked to the platform on...

Page 39: ...SX Host corresponding to the virtualization layer as defined in the ESX server Host configuration part hostgroup hostgroup representing the physical platform named platformName manager Virtualization...

Page 40: ...of all Other Hosts configured edit the corresponding host and click the Delete button Modify a virtual machine defined in a platform To modify the name of the NSMaster host corresponding to a virtual...

Page 41: ...he ESX SNMP agent none SNMP Trap receiver Monitoring services defined for VM hosts are associated with the VirtualMachine category Services Applied to the VM Host Service Description Check_command Sta...

Page 42: ...defined and activated for the ESX server and for each VM To deactivate the monitoring of one service set status Monitoring attributes part to inactive 3 3 2 3 Nagios Check Commands check_esx_server T...

Page 43: ...name See the check_esx3 command in Appendix A for parameters details check_esx_vm_memory The configurable NovaScale Master service check command syntax is check_esx_vm esx_server snmp_community vmname...

Page 44: ...MwareESX Operation From the Virtual Manager or from any element of the Virtual Platform you can launch the Virtual Infrastructure Web Interface by selecting the following cascading menu Operation Appl...

Page 45: ...information From the platform element you can display indicators related to all platform elements 3 3 3 NSMasterHyperNova for HyperNova Management 3 3 3 1 Overview The HyperNova server is a virtualiza...

Page 46: ...he NovaScale Master Configuration GUI Native OS VMs and related monitoring services are defined in one easy step The native OS is represented by a NSMaster host with the OS Xen VMs are represented by...

Page 47: ...rties Besides the characteristics name and description of the main object the properties of an HyperNova virtual platform are divided into two parts Virtualization Server used to define the physical m...

Page 48: ...n select an already defined host by clicking the select button or you can create a host by completing the corresponding fields Figure 3 17 Virtual Machines display after Discover step Notes When you s...

Page 49: ...d in 3 3 3 2 2 Virtual Machine Edition on page 41 After edition Click the OK button to validate your edition Or click Cancel to return to Virtual Platforms pages without changes Or click Delete to rem...

Page 50: ...ing table describes the objects generated during the creation the platform Type Description host HyperNova As defined in the Virtual Machine configuration part of the edition page host HNMaster Host c...

Page 51: ...or by selecting an already defined host Note When you edit a Virtualization platform only the Virtual Machines defined as part of the NovaScale Master platform are displayed To add virtual machine yo...

Page 52: ...ach service refer to the NovaScale Administration Guide for details Monitoring Services Monitoring services defined for the native OS are associated with the HyperNova category Services Applied to the...

Page 53: ...ined and activated for the server and for each VM To deactivate the monitoring of one service set status Monitoring attributes part to inactive 3 3 3 3 Nagios Check Commands check_hn_server_status The...

Page 54: ...the Virtual Platform you can launch the HN Master Web Interface by selecting the following cascading menu Operation Application HN Master 3 3 3 5 HyperNova Monitoring From the platform or host elemen...

Page 55: ...Chapter 3 NovaScale Master Server Add ons Description 45 Figure 3 21 Virtual Platform monitoring...

Page 56: ...6 A2 63ER for more information You can install DD4A from the Bull Extension Pack for RedHat CD ref 76741846 xxx Note DD4A runs only on Linux machines and uses a Webmin module for its management You ca...

Page 57: ...ovaScale and Express5800 Linux hosts with the Dynamic Domains management tool This service checks the status of the default Dynamic Domain Note When creating a new Dynamic Domain statically clone the...

Page 58: ...n module BVS service webmin GUI URL NSMaster Server Bull Bull Console machine Target Linux machine BVS Web Server module Target machine Web Server GUI URL Figure 3 23 BVS Web Server Monitoring Compone...

Page 59: ...S is a pure Java open source application server Its high modularity allows to it to be used as A J2EE server for deploying and running EAR applications i e applications composed of both web and ejb co...

Page 60: ...aged by a server also named jonas JOnAS administrators are responsible for the configuration and administration of JOnAS servers running within a management domain 3 4 3 3 JOnAS Monitoring Information...

Page 61: ...k Edit To define a new JOnAS domain in the NovaScale Master configuration database click the New Domain button and initialize the following attributes Figure 3 27 JOnAS properties domain name name of...

Page 62: ...Servers button to list all the servers belonging to the specified domain other servers the selected servers will be monitored by NovaScale Master 3 4 3 5 JOnAS Category and Service The definition of...

Page 63: ...threads count The MemoryUsed indicator returns the current memory used Figure 3 29 JOnAS indicators 3 4 3 7 NovaScale Master Console JOnAS Monitoring Representation The JOnAS category groups services...

Page 64: ...54 NovaScale Master 5 1 Server Add ons Installation and Administrator s Guide Figure 3 31 jonasAdmin launching...

Page 65: ...g L ALL Ct Ldn v vl f f H hostname host Hostname or IP address of target to check C community community SNMP community string defaults to public p port port SNMP port defaults to 161 t timeout timeout...

Page 66: ...tor The first line shows the global state The syntax is GAMTT RAID CT PD LD GlobalStatus CT if A PD if P LD if L state descriptor by controller They may be present after the global state descriptor if...

Page 67: ...Ultra320 2x OK check_gamttraid H host A 1 v 1 GAMTT RAID CT OK CT Ct1 DAC960FFX2 OK If global state is CRITICAL or WARNING only concerned elements are displayed check_gamttraid H host GAMTT RAID CRITI...

Page 68: ...s in a CRITICAL state UNKNOWN All other types of processing errors bad parameter no response etc Note In the case of multiple errors the global state will be the worst one CRITICAL WARNING OK Output A...

Page 69: ...DStatus physical device status as reported by the LSI CIM provider Examples check_LSICIM H 172 31 50 71 LSI SCSI storage Integrated Mirroring not available LSI SCSI storage Integrated Mirrored availab...

Page 70: ...efaults to public p port port SNMP port defaults to 161 t timeout timeout Seconds before timing out defaults to Nagios timeout value f format f 0 Carriage Return in ASCII mode n 1 Carriage Return in H...

Page 71: ...global state is CRITICAL or WARNING only errors are displayed When the return code is UNKNOWN check_necfda H host necfda CRITICAL check_necfda H host necfda WARNING check_necfda H host necfda UNKNOWN...

Page 72: ...Nagios mode M for MRTG mode B for NSMaster mode C community SNMP community string defaults to public v virtualhost name of the virtual host to check l thing what to check Available thing are CPU MEM...

Page 73: ...snmp case The check_esx3 shell is called with the following syntax check_esx3 B H esxname C community l SNMP Output OK SNMP management interface available CRITICAL SNMP management interface not availa...

Page 74: ...ost l MEM w warn c crit Output Memory free free Mb percent_free Total available total Mb on vhost VMname Example check_esx_vm_mem B H esx C public v nsmvm1 w 20 c 10 Memory free 460 8Mb 90 Total avail...

Page 75: ...65 CPU usage is 3 on nsmvm1 301s average Status is set to WARNING if more than 80 of CPU is used Status is set to CRITICAL if if more than 90 of CPU is used Note The VMname is those declared on the ES...

Page 76: ...t to check h help Display help Return code OK 0 WARNING 1 CRITICAL 2 UNKNOWN 3 Output The output is the StatusText as setting by HNMaster For the list of values refer to the HyperNova documentation Ex...

Page 77: ...s 67 Output virtualHost StatusText as returned by HNMaster Example check_NSN_hypernova_xen H hnserver m VM1 VM1 VM inactive Status is set to WARNING Note The VMname is those declared on the HyperNova...

Page 78: ...st one Dynamic Domain is in a CRITICAL state UNKNOWN All other types of processing errors bad parameter no response etc Note In the case of multiple errors the global state will be the worst one CRITI...

Page 79: ...c Domain name with its number of used CPUs its CPU load and the associated threshold and its number of tasks Examples check_DD4A H host check_DD4A H host D ALL 4 Dyn Domains domain2 WARNING CPUs 4 4 t...

Page 80: ...ver is in WARNING state CRITICAL Bull Video Server is in CRITICAL state UNKNOWN All other type of processing errors bad parameter and so on The BVS state UNREACHABLE Bull Video Server is in UNREACHABL...

Page 81: ...d percentage of disk rate in relation to a value declared on BVS server Example check_BVS H host S Recording Status OK channels 7 00 rate MB s 3 84 load 7 69 Datagrams service Status global status of...

Page 82: ...72 NovaScale Master 5 1 Server Add ons Installation and Administrator s Guide Example check_BVS H host S service Status UNREACHABLE...

Page 83: ...user name user name mandatory if called outside NSMaster p password password mandatory if called outside NSMaster m set if JOnAS server is master w command output in HTML Return Code OK 0 WARNING 1 CR...

Page 84: ...Guide check_JOnAS H frcls6260 N frcls6260 frcl bull fr a instance1 d jonas s instance1 p 9000 m The instance1 master server in jonas domain is RUNNING on frcls6260 Memory allocated 64315 used 36359 T...

Page 85: ...M 20 58 check_LSICIM_ctrl 20 check_NECFDA 22 60 check_NSM_hypernova_xen 66 check_NSM_JOnAS 52 CIM 18 commands check_ JOnAS S 73 check_BVS 49 70 check_DynamicDomains 68 check_esx_mem 33 check_esx_serve...

Page 86: ...siCIM Category 20 M MegaRAID 15 megaraid mib 17 Memory Requirements 5 MIB 2 Monitoring Configuration 13 N notifications 1 NSMasterGAMTT 15 NSMasterHyperNova 35 NSMasterLSICIM 18 O Operating Systems 5...

Page 87: ...T thresholds 1 U Uninstallation Linux 12 Uninstallation Windows 9 Upgrading Linux 12 Upgrading Windows 9 URL NovaScale Master main page 13 V virtualization platform 36 Virtualization Server 23 Vmware...

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