Silicon Graphics Altix ICE 8000 Series, Quick Reference Manual

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About This Guide
This guide is a reference document for people who manage the operation of SGI Altix
ICE 8000 series systems running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 1 or
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (RHEL5.1) with SGI ProPack 5 for Linux Service Pack 4
(or later). It describes how to use Scali Manage version 5.6.1–1 (or later) management
software to perform general system discovery, installation, configuration, and
operations on SGI Altix ICE 8000 series systems.
This manual contains the following chapters:
• Chapter 1, "SGI Altix ICE 8000 Series System Overview" on page 1
• Chapter 2, "Getting Started with Scali Manage" on page 27
• Chapter 3, "System Fabric Management" on page 43
• Appendix A, "InfiniBand Fabric Details" on page 45
• Appendix B, "InfiniBand Fabric Troubleshooting" on page 55
Related Publications
This section describes documentation you may find useful, as follows:
• SGI Altix ICE 8000 System User’s Guide
This is the hardware users guide for the SGI Alitx 8000 series systems. It describes
the features of the SGI Altix ICE 8000 series system, as well as, troubleshooting,
upgrading, and repairing.
The following manuals for Scali Manage are available from Platform Computing, Inc:
• Scali Manage User’s Guide, (2006)
This document provides an overview of a Scali system in terms of instructions for
building a Scali system. Configuration guidelines for hardware and software are
covered along with instructions on use and general management of the cluster
system.
• Scali Quick Start Guide , (2007)
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