HP UX Developer Tools manual What’s in This Version, Benefits

ClusterPack V2.5 Release Note

What’s in This Version

What’s in This Version

Benefits

Manageability is one of the key considerations in cluster technology. ClusterPack V2.5 provides several benefits to system management.

•Reduces time and effort spent on repetitive tasks

•Reduces overhead associated with maintaining system configurations, software updates, and user management

•Maintains similar or identical configurations of nodes (or groups of nodes) in a cluster

•Provides proactive problem detection

•Provides flexibility and extensibility

Platforms Supported

ClusterPack V2.5 is available on HP Integrity Servers running either HP-UX 11iv2 Technical Computing Operating Environment (TCOE) or HP-UX 11iv3 TCOE as the management server and compute servers. It supports industry-standard Ethernet and InfiniBand as the cluster interconnect. It also provides console management via the on-board management processor on HP Integrity Servers.

Features

New features for ClusterPack V2.5 include:

•New command line utility for cluster power management (clpower)

•New command line utility to manage system file customizations on Compute Nodes (clsysfile)

•Integration with HP system management tools

•Flexible configurations

•Utilities to preserve system file customizations during cloning

•Support for non-intrusive Compute Node addition and deletion

•Removal of key configuration restrictions

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