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Installing the documentation

ParaStation5 Administrator's Guide

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# rpm -Uv psmgmt.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm pscom.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm \

pscom-modules.5.0.0-0.i586.rpm

This will copy all the necessary files to

/opt/parastation

and the kernel modules to

/lib/modules/

kernelversion/kernel/drivers/net/ps4

.

On a frontend node or file server, the

pscom-modules

package is only required, if this node should run

processes of a parallel task. If the frontend or fileserver node is not configured to run compute processes of
parallel tasks, the installation of the

pscom-modules

package may be skipped. For details how to configure

frontend nodes, refer to Section 4.1, “Configuration of the ParaStation system”.

To enable the ParaStation version of the e1000 or bcm5700 network drivers, rename (or delete) the
original version of this driver in use which is typically located in the system directory

/lib/modules/

kernelversion/kernel/kernel/drivers/net/e1000

or

bcm

, respectively. See modinfo

e1000

for details. The module dependency database must be rebuild using the command depmod. See
Section 4.2, “Enable optimized network drivers” for details.

It is not required to use the ParaStation version of the e1000 or bcm5700 driver,
as the p4sock protocol of ParaStation is able to use every network driver within the
Linux kernel. However, to increase performance and to minimize latency, it's highly
recommended.

Using the provided drivers does not influence other network communication.

While installing the ParaStation management RPM, the file

/etc/xinetd/psidstarter

is installed. This

enables remote startup of ParaStation daemons using the xinetd(8).

The xinetd daemon will be triggered to read this file by executing:

/etc/init.d/xinetd reload

Refer to Section 5.22, “Changing the default ports for psid(8)” on how to change the default network port
used by the psid(8).

In case the system still uses the older xinet(8) server to startup network services, please add the following
lines to

/etc/services

:

#

# ParaStation daemon

#

psid stream tcp nowait root /opt/parastation/bin/psid psid

Add the next lines to

/etc/inetd.conf

:

# ParaStation entries

psid 888/tcp # ParaStation Daemon Start Port

# end of ParaStation entries

3.4. Installing the documentation

The ParaStation5 documentation is delivered in three formats: As PDF files, a browseable HTML
documentation and manual pages for all ParaStation5 commands and configuration files.

In order to install the documentation files an up to date version of the documentation package

psdoc

has to

be retrieved. It can be found in the download section of the ParaStation homepage. The package is called

psdoc

and the architecture is

noarch

, since this part is platform independent. The name of this package

follows the conventions of all other packages building the ParaStation5 distribution.

To install the package, simply execute

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