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Managing the Cluster
At a Glance: Critical Concepts
What is EGO? An overview
How does EGO work? A general overview
Important definitions
Administrative Basics
Log on to the Platform Management Console
Modify user password and other account information
Configure a secure Platform Management Console (https)
Understanding the dashboard
Understanding the host view
Host icons
Turn off tooltips
Set the command-line environment
Parallel installation
Executing commands in a multi-cluster environment
Cluster management tasks (Windows)
Cluster management tasks (Linux)
Grant root privileges to a cluster administrator
View and modify cluster properties
IPv6 support
External user authentication and non-NFS file systems
Transferring files from one host to another
Deploying middleware packages
Building your consumer tree
Example: Build a consumer tree
Managing Services
About system services
View a consumer’s system service
Register a new service
Update a service
Unregister a service
Start a service
Stop a service
Determine the host address where a system service runs
Installing and configuring the service director
Troubleshoot the service director
About system service instances
System service instance states
Control an EGO service instance
Restart a service instance
Migrate a service instance
Troubleshoot service error states
Managing Hosts
Important host roles
Host states
Host properties
About load indices
Set your master candidates
Control hosts (Windows)
Control hosts (Linux)
Open a host
Close a host
Monitor host health from the dashboard
Detect when failover occurs
Multi-homed hosts
Understanding how the lim daemon detects cores, threads, and processors
Change default behavior of ncpus: Set the number of CPUs by cores
Define ncpus—processors, cores, or threads
Override the global configuration of ncpus computation
Understanding RQL normalization between Platform LSF and EGO
View host models and types
Fix UNKNOWN or DEFAULT Matched Models and Matched Types
Managing Users
User accounts
User roles
Add a cluster administrator
Remove a cluster administrator
Create a user account
Modify a user account
Delete a user account
Add a consumer administrator
Add a consumer user
Monitoring Resource Allocation
About resource allocation monitoring
View resource allocation information
Compare relative resource allocation
View resource allocation shortfall
View resource allocation details for a consumer
Reporting
About producing reports
About exporting reports
Standard reports
Custom reports
Create custom reports
Delete custom reports
Reports directory
Log files
Event data files
Reports: Data Sources
Data sources
Configuration of the data sources
Default behavior of data sources
Data source interactions
Reports: Loader Controller
Loader controller
Configuration of the loader controller
Default behavior of the loader controller
Loader controller interactions
Reports: Data Loaders
Data loaders
Configuration of the data loaders
Data gathering methods
Default behavior of data loaders
Data loader interactions
Reports: Data Purger
Data purger
Configuration of the data purger
Record archives
Default behavior of the data purger
Data purger interactions
Managing Reports
Disable automatic startup of the reporting services
View the status of the loader controller
Dynamically change the log level of your loader controller log file
Dynamically change the log level of your data loader log files
Change the default log level of your reporting log files
Change the disk usage of EGO allocation event data files
Change the data purger schedule
Change the default record expiry time
Change the record expiry time per table
Change the frequency of data collection
Disable data collection for individual data loaders
Test the reporting feature
Disable the reporting feature
Move to a production database for EGO
Managing Resource Distribution
Managing the Tree
About the consumer tree
Consumer properties
Create a consumer
Configure Windows password
Delete a consumer
View consumer properties
Modify consumer properties
Rank consumers in order of priority
Create a plan for reclaiming a resource
Resource Groups
Understanding resource groups
Resource group properties
Static resources
About the selection string
select
order
Create a resource group by host names
Create a resource group by resource requirement
View resource groups and their properties
View hosts in a resource group
Remove a resource group
Modify resource groups
The Resource Plan
Resource plan: an overview
Owning and borrowing resources
Share ratio behavior and enforcement
Time-based resource planning
Resource sharing: best practices
Creating a resource plan for lending and borrowing
Configure EGO to enforce share ratio at parent level
Default resource allocation policy
Create or modify a resource plan
Manage time intervals
Export a resource plan
Import a resource plan
Change the default resource allocation policy in conjunction with resource plan
Troubleshooting
Resource plan modification by CLI feature
Inside Platform EGO: Advanced Topics and Troubleshooting
Advanced Concepts and Overviews
EGO components
System services and EGO daemons
Understanding how lim determines host models and types
Safely making configuration file changes
Events overview
Logs and Traces
About EGO log files
Change EGO log levels
Change EGO log file locations
Change service director (named) log levels
Enable EGO event logging for auditing purposes
View EGO log files
EGO log file properties
Troubleshoot using multiple log files
Traces
Set a trace
Events
EGO events
Enable events
View an event
Responding to event message sys_cls_unlicensed
Scenarios and Tutorials
Creating initial resource groups
Building Your Tree
Add a New Service to the Cluster
Creating a resource plan that responds dynamically to consumer needs
Changing resource distribution models