Documentation

The EGO documentation set is available from the EGO Knowledge Center, installed with your package and accessible from the Platform Management Console. It is also available from ftp.platform.com, in the /docs directory. It includes the following documents:

  • Administering and Using Platform EGO: Manage the cluster by controlling hosts, creating user accounts, and adding administrators and users. Manage resources by building a consumer tree, creating consumers, creating resource groups, and configuring a resource distribution plan. Find information about log files and events, services and daemons, and general EGO concepts. Follow four scenarios to learn key concepts and steps involved in creating resource groups, building a consumer tree, adding a new service to the cluster, and creating resource plans.

  • Platform EGO Reference: Comprehensive reference to EGO commands, daemons, events, and environment variables.

  • Platform EGO Developers Guide: A developer's resource for understanding and working with system services, APIs, web service components, WSDLs and schemas. Learn how to create client projects. Find tutorials on getting started with C client and Java client.

  • Platform EGO Developer Documentation (help plug-in for Eclipse): Contains information on EGO web service operations and data formats; see the included WSDLs and schemas.

  • Platform EGO C API Reference: Covers all the EGO functions, data structures, pre-processor directives, and enumerations that are available to the C application developer.

  • Platform EGO Web Service API Reference: Consists of the EGO WSDLs and XML schemas; provides details about available Web Service operations and data types to enable the application developer to invoke these services.

  • Planning and Installing Your Cluster on Windows: Plan your installation, install a production cluster with a Windows master host, and grow the cluster to include management hosts and compute hosts.

  • Planning and Installing Your Cluster on Linux: Plan your installation, install a production cluster with a Linux master host, and grow the cluster to include management hosts and compute hosts.

  • Installing a Single-Host Cluster on Windows: Deploy, configure, and test software on a single-host Windows cluster. Learn how to reconfigure and migrate to a production cluster.

  • Installing a Single-Host Cluster on Linux: Deploy, configure, and test software on a single-host Linux cluster. Learn how to reconfigure and migrate to a production cluster.