About This Manual

Your SGI Altix UV system comes with pre-installed software. This manual describes how to reinstall it if necessary.

Obtaining Publications

You can obtain SGI documentation in the following ways:

  • See the SGI Technical Publications Library at: http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.

  • You can also view man pages by typing man title on a command line.

Related Publications and Other Sources

This section describes documentation you may find useful, as follows:

  • SGI ProPack 7 for Linux Service Pack 1 Start Here

    Provides information about the SGI ProPack 7 for Linux SP1 releases including information about major new features, software installation and product support.

  • SGI Foundation Software 2 Service Pack 1 Start Here

    Provides information about the SGI Foundation Software 2 SP1 release that supports SGI differentiated server solutions.

  • SGI Management Center Installation and Configuration

    This guide is intended for system administrators. It describes how to install and configure the SGI Management Center. A companion manual, SGI Management Center System Administrator's Guide, describes general cluster administration.

  • SGI Altix UV CMC Controller Software User's Guide

    Describes how to use the controller commands on your chassis manager controller (CMC) to monitor and manage SGI Altix UV 100 and SGI Altix UV 1000 systems.

  • SGI Altix UV 1000 System User's Guide

    This guide provides an overview of the architecture and descriptions of the major components that compose the SGI Altix UV 1000 system. It also provides the standard procedures for powering on and powering off the system, basic troubleshooting information, and important safety and regulatory specifications.

  • SGI Altix UV 100 System User's Guide

    This guide provides an overview of the architecture and descriptions of the major components that compose the SGI Altix UV 100 system. It also provides the standard procedures for powering on and powering off the system, basic troubleshooting information, and important safety and regulatory specifications.

Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention 

Meaning

command 

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

manpage(x) 

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

variable 

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input 

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. (Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.)

[ ] 

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

... 

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

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