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¶
2. Parameter details: Provides information on parameters configured in EXPRESSCLUSTER.
3. Group resource details: Provides information on group resource which configures a failover group.
4. Monitor resource details: Provides information on monitor resource which works as a monitoring unit in EXPRESSCLUSTER.
5. Heartbeat resources details: Provides information on heartbeat resource.
6. Network partition resolution resources details: Provides information on the network partition resolution resource.
7. Forced stop resource details:Provides information on forced stop resources.
8. Information on other settings: Provides information on other configurations.
9. EXPRESSCLUSTER command reference: Provides information on commands available to use in EXPRESSCLUSTER.
10. Troubleshooting: Provides instruction on how to troubleshoot the problem.
11. Error messages: Provides explanation on error messages displayed during EXPRESSCLUSTER operation.
1.3. EXPRESSCLUSTER Documentation Set¶
The EXPRESSCLUSTER manuals consist of the following five 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.
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 |
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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.
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Angled bracket within the command line |
Indicates that the value specified inside of the angled bracket can be omitted. |
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Monospace |
Indicates path names, commands, system output (message, prompt, etc.), directory, file names, functions and parameters. |
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bold |
Indicates the value that a user actually enters from a command line. |
Enter the following:
clpcl -s -a
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italic |
Indicates that users should replace italicized part with values that they are actually working with. |
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In the figures of this guide, this icon represents EXPRESSCLUSTER.
1.5. Contacting NEC¶
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