Turn on, reset, or reboot the SMN. The power on button is on the right of the SMN, as shown in Figure 1-8.

Figure 1-8. System Management Node Power On Button and DVD Drive

Insert the SLES 11 Service Pack 1 DVD in the DVD drive on the left of the SMN as shown in Figure 1-8.

Once installation of software on the system management node is complete, remove the DVD from the DVD drive.

After the reboot completes, you will eventually see the YaST2 - firstboot@Linux Welcome screen, as shown in Figure 1-9. Select the Next button to continue.

Figure 1-9. YaST2 - firstboot@Linux Welcome Screen

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Note: The YaST2 Installation Tool has a main menu with sub-menus. You will be redirected back to the main menu, at various times, as you follow the steps in this procedure.

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From the Hostname and Domain Name screen, as shown in Figure 1-10, enter the hostname and domain name of your system in the appropriate fields. Make sure that Change Hostname via DHCP is not selected (no x should appear in the box). Note that the hostname is saved to /etc/hosts in step 10, below. Click the Next button to continue.

Figure 1-10. Hostname and Domain Name Screen

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Note: The mostly used keys are Tab and Shift + Tab to move forward and backward in modules, the arrow keys to move up and down or left and right in lists, the shortcuts (press Alt + highlighted letter) and Enter to execute the selected action or activate a menu item. You can use Ctrl L to refresh the YaST screen as necessary.

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The Network Configuration II screen appears, as shown in Figure 1-11. Select Change and a small window pops up that lets you choose Network Interfaces... or Reset to Defaults. Choose Network Interfaces.

Figure 1-11. Network Configuration II Screen

From the Network Settings screen, as shown in Figure 1-12, configure the first card under Name to establish the public network (sometimes called the house network) connection to your system management node (SMN). To do this, highlight the first card and select Edit.

Figure 1-12. Network Settings Screen

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Note: In SLES11, this screen is also where we will come back to in order to set up things like the default route and DNS. You can see all of those menu choices just to the right of Overview in Figure 1-12.

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The Network Card Setup screen appears, as shown in Figure 1-13. SGI suggests using static IP addresses and not DHCP for admin nodes. Select Statically assigned IP Address. Once selected, you can enter the IP Address, Subnet Mask, and Hostname.

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Note: You must use a fully qualified hostname (host + domain), such as, mysystem-admin.domainname .mycompany.com.

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These are the settings for your admin node's house/public network interface. You will enter the default route, if needed, in a different step. Select Next to continue.

Figure 1-13. Network Card Setup Screen

At this point, you are back at the Network Settings screen as shown in Figure 1-14. At this time, select Hostname/DNS. In this screen, you should enter your house/public network hostname and fully qualified domain names. In addition, any name servers for your house/public network should be supplied. Please select (ensure an x is in the box) for Write hostname to /etc/hosts. Do not select OK yet.

Figure 1-14. Network Settings Screen

Select Routing shown in Figure 1-15 and enter your house/public network default router information there. Now you can select OK.

Figure 1-15. Network Settings Routing Screen

You are now back at the Network Configuration II screen, Click Next.

In the Clock and Time Zone screen, you can enter the appropriate details. Select Next to continue.

In the Password for the System Administrator "root"' screen, enter the password you wish to use. Select Next to continue.

In the User Authentication Method screen, most customers will want to stick with the default (Local). Select Next to continue.

In the New Local User screen, you can just select Next (and say Yes to the Empty User Login warning). Select Next to continue.

In Installation Completed, select Finish.

After you have completed the YaST first boot installation instructions, login into the SMN. You can use YaST2 to confirm or correct any configuration settings.

You need to install SGI Foundation 2.4 software at this point. For installation instructions, see “Installing SLES 11 SP1 and SGI Foundation Software 2.4 ”.

Insert the product media and enter the following command to mount it:

% mount /dev/cdrom/mnt

Run the following command and follow the examples provided:

 % /mnt/create-yum-config-file

Additional installation instructions for installing SGI Foundation Software (SFS) 2.4 and RHEL 6 are provided in the SFS 2.4 release notes file.

By default RHEL 6 uses NetworkManager and all the directions here assume it is off. Perform the following commands, before proceeding:

# chkconfig NetworkManager off
# service NetworkManager stop 

Add the IPADDR, NETMASK, and NETWORK values appropriate for the network interface to the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file similar to the following example:

IPADDR=128.162.244.88
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=128.162.244.0

Create the /etc/sysconfig/network file similar to the following example:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=my-system-admin
GATEWAY=128.162.244.1

Create the /etc/resolv.conf file similar to the following example:

[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search domain-name.mycompany.com
nameserver 137.38.224.40
nameserver 137.38.31.248
nameserver 137.38.225.5

Add the IP address of the house network interface and the name(s) of the admin node to /etc/hosts file similar to the following example:

# echo "128.162.244.88 my-system-admin.domain-name.mycompany.com my-system-admin" >> /etc/hosts

Set the admin node hostname, as follows:

# hostname my-system-admin

Force the invalidation of the host cache of nscd with the nscd(8) command on the hosts file, as follows:

# nscd -i hosts

Restart the following services (in this order), as follows:

# /etc/init.d/network restart
# /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
# /etc/init.d/nfslock start

Set the local timezone. The timezone is set with /etc/localtime, a timezone definition file. The timezone defined in /etc/localtime can be determined, as follows:

# strings /etc/localtime | tail -1
CST6CDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0

Link the appropriate timezone file from directory /usr/share/zoneinfo to /etc/localtime. For example, set timezone to Pacific Time / Los Angeles, as follows:

# /bin/cp -l /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime.$$
# /bin/mv /etc/localtime.$$ /etc/localtime

Confirm the timezone, as follows:

# strings /etc/localtime | tail -1
PST8PDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0

Set network time configuration. By default, the configuration in /etc/ntp.conf directs requests to public servers of the pool.ntp.org project. Use public servers from the http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ project:

server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org

You may need to modify this ntp configuration file to point at a time server on your network. Please do not remove any entries that serve the cluster networks. For example, to direct requests to, for example, my.corp.mycompany.com, comment/delete the pool entries and insert the local entry, as follows:

# Use public servers from the pool.ntp.org project.
# Please consider joining the pool (http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html).
#server 0.rhel.pool.ntp.org
#server 1.rhel.pool.ntp.org
#server 2.rhel.pool.ntp.org
server my.corp.mycompany.com

Restart the ntp server, as follows:

# /etc/init.d/ntpd restart

Make sure you have registered with the Red Hat Network (RHN). If you have not yet registered, run the following command:

% /usr/bin/rhn_register

From the SGI-System-Management-Node-Software-1.2 ISO, install the following:

rpm -i monit-5.0.3-1sgi703rp2.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i monit-sgi-rules-5.0.3-1sgi703rp2.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-base-smn-uv-1.0-sgi703rp5.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-common-smn-uv-1.0-sgi703rp5.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-db-smn-uv-1.0-sgi703rp5.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-gather-smn-uv-1.0-sgi703rp5.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-smn-docs-1-sgi703rp12.rhel6.noarch.rpm
rpm -i sgi-smn-release-1.2-sgi703rp49.rhel6.noarch.rpm
rpm -i sgi-snmpagent-smn-uv-1.0-sgi703rp5.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sgi-uv-bmc-1.2.5_5-20110121.noarch.rpm
rpm -i sgi-uv-cmc-1.2.6_3-20110121.noarch.rpm
rpm -i sgi-uv-iobmc-1.2.2_3-20110121.noarch.rpm
rpm -i sysco-uv-1.0-20110118.1858sgi703rp2.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sysco-uv-libs-1.0-20110118.1858sgi703rp2.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i sysco_uv-tools-1.6-20110121.i386.rpm