NonStop Cluster Management Suite Help

The NonStop Cluster Management Suite (NCMS) provides a graphical user interface to the following system administration applications:

Configuration Manager:
Serves as a specialized editor used to modify the contents of the following types of files:

ServerNet Manager:
Used to monitor and control the cluster ServerNet SAN. Monitoring functions include:

Control functions are available to designate the paths (X or Y) used between the nodes in the cluster and to reset SPA-related statistics. The ServerNet Manager also displays alert messages when an event such as a path failure or a node removal occurs.

Keepalive Manager
Used to monitor and control the processes and daemons registered with the keepalive daemon. All of the registered processes/daemons in the cluster are continually monitored for state changes. Icons indicate whether a process/daemon is down, has been restarted at least once, or is running and has not required a restart. A full set of state, status, and configuration attributes can be displayed for each process/daemon. Control functions are available to restart a process/daemon and clear the number of process/daemon failures tracked by keepalive.

Keepalive Configuration Manager
Used to provide configuration information to the keepalive daemon for monitored processes. Dialogs provide fields for specifying the process node, process restart parameters, and a process restart script.

System Availability Monitor (SAM) Viewer
Used to view availability statistics for the cluster. These statistics are gathered by the System Availability Monitor (SAM). You can view Summary, Failure, and Event reports.


Using Applications

To use an application that appears in the NCMS window, select the tab containing its name. If the application is not present in the NCMS window, select File from the menu bar and choose the Applications... menu item. Select the missing application(s) from the application list and click on OK to start the application. Help for each application is available from the Help menu.

For details about NonStop Clusters system management tasks, refer to the SCO UnixWare 7 NonStop Clusters System Administrator's Guide.