1. Preface

1.1. Who Should Use This Guide

The EXPRESSCLUSTER X Reference Guide is intended for system administrators. Detailed information for setting up a cluster system, function of the product, and how to troubleshoot the problems are covered in this guide. The guide provides supplemental information to the Installation and Configuration Guide.

1.2. How This Guide is Organized

1.3. EXPRESSCLUSTER Documentation Set

The EXPRESSCLUSTER manuals consist of the following four guides. The title and purpose of each guide is described below.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Getting Started Guide

This guide is intended for all users. The guide covers topics such as product overview, system requirements, and known problems.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Installation and Configuration Guide

This guide is intended for system engineers and administrators who want to build, operate, and maintain a cluster system. Instructions for designing, installing, and configuring a cluster system with EXPRESSCLUSTER are covered in this guide.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Reference Guide

This guide is intended for system administrators. The guide covers topics such as how to operate EXPRESSCLUSTER, function of each module and troubleshooting. The guide is complement to the Installation and Configuration Guide.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Maintenance Guide

This guide is intended for administrators and for system administrators who want to build, operate, and maintain EXPRESSCLUSTER-based cluster systems. The guide describes maintenance-related topics for EXPRESSCLUSTER.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Hardware Feature Guide

This guide is intended for administrators and for system engineers who want to build EXPRESSCLUSTER-based cluster systems. The guide describes features to work with specific hardware, serving as a supplement to the Installation and Configuration Guide.

EXPRESSCLUSTER X Legacy Feature Guide

This guide is intended for administrators and for system engineers who want to build EXPRESSCLUSTER-based cluster systems. The guide describes EXPRESSCLUSTER X 4.0 WebManager, Builder, and EXPRESSCLUSTER Ver 8.0 compatible commands.

1.4. Conventions

In this guide, Note, Important, Related Information are used as follows:

Note

Used when the information given is important, but not related to the data loss and damage to the system and machine.

Important

Used when the information given is necessary to avoid the data loss and damage to the system and machine.

See also

Used to describe the location of the information given at the reference destination.

The following conventions are used in this guide.

Convention

Usage

Example

Bold

Indicates graphical objects, such as fields, list boxes, menu selections, buttons, labels, icons, etc.
In User Name, type your name.
On the File menu, click Open Database.

Angled bracket within the command line

Indicates that the value specified inside of the angled bracket can be omitted.

clpstat -s [-h host_name ]

Monospace (courier)

Indicates path names, commands, system output (message, prompt, etc.), directory, file names, functions and parameters.

c:\Program files\EXPRESSCLUSTER

Monospace bold (courier)

Indicates the value that a user actually enters from a command line.
Enter the following:
clpcl -s -a
Monospace italic
(courier)

Indicates that users should replace italicized part with values that they are actually working with.

clpstat -s [-h host_name]

1.5. Contacting NEC

For the latest product information, visit our website below:

https://www.nec.com/global/prod/expresscluster/