• Copyright
  • About this guide
  • Cluster Management
    • Controlling Symphony
      • Start Symphony cluster
      • Shut down Symphony cluster
    • Controlling EGO
      • Start EGO on the Windows cluster
      • Start EGO on the Linux/UNIX cluster
      • Shut down EGO on the Windows cluster
      • Shut down EGO on the Linux/UNIX cluster
      • Restart EGO on the Windows cluster
      • Restart EGO on the Linux/UNIX cluster
      • Start EGO in a mixed cluster
      • Shut down EGO in a mixed cluster
      • Check hosts in a mixed cluster
      • About system services
      • View a consumer’s system service
      • System service states
      • About system service instances
      • System service instance states
      • Determine the host address where a system service runs
      • Shutting down custom system services gracefully
      • Update a service
    • Host Management
      • Host states
      • Host properties
      • About load indices
      • View host models and types
      • Understanding how lim determines host models and types
      • Control hosts (Windows)
      • Control hosts (Linux/UNIX)
      • Add a compute host to the cluster (dynamically)
      • Remove a compute host from the cluster
    • Monitoring Resource Allocation
      • About resource allocation monitoring
      • View resource allocation information
      • Compare relative resource allocation
      • View resource allocation shortfall
      • View resource allocation details for a consumer
    • Reporting
      • About reports
        • About producing reports
        • About exporting reports
        • Standard reports
        • Custom reports
        • Create custom reports
        • Delete custom reports
        • Reports directory
        • Log files
        • Event data files
      • Data sources
        • Data sources
        • Configuration of the data sources
        • Default behavior of data sources
        • Data source interactions
      • Loader controller
        • Loader controller
        • Configuration of the loader controller
        • Default behavior of the loader controller
        • Loader controller interactions
      • Data loaders
        • Data loaders
        • Configuration of the data loaders
        • Data gathering methods
        • Default behavior of data loaders
        • Data loader interactions
      • Data purger
        • Data purger
        • Configuration of the data purger
        • Record archives
        • Default behavior of the data purger
        • Data purger interactions
      • Managing reports
        • Disable automatic startup of the reporting services
        • View the status of the loader controller
        • Dynamically change the log level of your loader controller log file
        • Dynamically change the log level of your data loader log files
        • Change the default log level of your reporting log files
        • Change the disk usage of EGO allocation event data files
        • Change the data purger schedule
        • Change the default record expiry time
        • Change the record expiry time per table
        • Change the frequency of data collection
        • Disable data collection for individual data loaders
        • Test the reporting feature
        • Disable the reporting feature
        • Enable the Derby database
        • Move to a production database for Symphony
  • Resource Sharing and Distribution
    • Resource Groups
      • Understanding resource groups
      • Static resources
      • About the selection string
      • Resource group properties
      • Defining the number of slots per host
      • Create a resource group by host names
      • Create a resource group by resource requirement
      • Creating initial resource groups
    • About Consumer Trees
      • About the consumer tree
      • Building your consumer tree
      • Create a consumer
        • Configure Windows password
      • Consumer properties
      • Building Your Tree
    • Resource Distribution Plans
      • Resource plan: an overview
      • Time-based resource planning
      • Understanding the default plan
      • Default resource allocation policy
      • Owning and borrowing resources
      • Share ratio behavior and enforcement
      • Resource sharing: best practices
      • Create or modify a resource plan
      • Resource plan modification by CLI feature
        • Troubleshooting
      • Configure equal system service distribution among management hosts
      • Balanced Slot Allocation Feature: Allocating CPU Slots Equally Across Hosts
      • Changing resource distribution models
    • Configuring How Resources Are Shared
      • Rank consumers in order of priority
      • Creating a resource plan for lending and borrowing
      • Change the default resource allocation policy in conjunction with resource plan
      • Configure EGO to enforce share ratio at parent level
      • Resource reclaim
      • Adjustable Share to Workload for Resource Allocation/Reclaim
        • Resource Reclaim and Distribution Behavior
        • How resource reclaim works based on share ratio (feature enabled)
        • Configuration to enable adjustable share ratio to workload
        • Interface
      • Using Static Share Quota to Minimize Reclaims Across Multiple Resource Groups
      • Using workload preemption to reclaim resources
      • Host Scavenging Feature
    • Working with Scavenged Hosts
      • Enable host scavenging
      • Stop workload from running on a scavenged host
      • Verify the hosts currently available for scavenging
      • Set trigger conditions (thresholds) for host scavenging
      • FAQs for host scavenging
  • Advanced Cluster Configuration
    • Installation
      • Parallel installation
      • Executing commands in a multi-cluster environment
    • Ports, TCP connections, and IPV6 support
      • Summary of Ports Used by Symphony
      • Connection ports and base port
      • Web server ports
      • Web service gateway port
      • Service director port
      • Ports used by Symphony
      • Firewall support
      • Change the base connection port
      • Change the session director port
      • Change the session manager port
      • Change the repository service port
      • Configuration of TCP connections
      • IPv6 support
    • Security
      • User accounts
      • User roles
      • Customizing user roles
      • Configure Windows password
      • Create a user account
      • Delete a user account
      • Modify a user account
      • Add a cluster administrator
      • Remove a cluster administrator
      • Grant root privileges to a cluster administrator
      • Configure a secure Platform Management Console (https)
      • Enabling Secure Shell
      • Integrating Symphony with Microsoft Active Directory
    • Using SSL Security with Symphony
      • About Symphony communication using SSL
      • About Symphony clients
      • How SSL works with Symphony
      • SSL parameters
      • Configure security settings
      • Sample configuration
    • Configuring a Mixed OS Cluster
      • Workload execution account
      • What you need to know
        • Cluster administrator account
        • Installation directory
        • Execution accounts for consumers installed with Symphony
        • Consistent configuration on all hosts
      • Install a Windows compute host in a mixed cluster
        • Configure the cluster administrators
        • Installing Symphony on a Windows host
      • Install a Linux compute host in a mixed cluster
        • Configure the cluster administrators
        • Installing Symphony on a Linux host
        • Run the test application
      • Install a Solaris compute host
        • Installing Symphony on a Solaris host
          • Deploy the EGO software on the compute host
            • Extract the EGO installation package
            • Modify the EGO environment configuration files
            • Set the command-line environment
            • Enable automatic startup
            • Grant root privileges to a cluster administrator
          • Deploy the Symphony software on the compute host
            • Extract the Symphony installation package
            • Modify the Symphony environment configuration files
            • Set the command-line environment
            • Start the host
            • Test that the host was added to the cluster
            • Run the test application
    • Hosts with More Than One IP Address, Threads, Cores, or CPUs
      • Multi-homed hosts
      • Understanding how the lim daemon detects cores, threads, and processors
      • Define ncpus—processors, cores, or threads
      • Override the global configuration of ncpus computation
  • Application Management
    • Lifecycles
      • Application lifecycle
      • Session lifecycle
      • Task lifecycle
      • Service lifecycle
    • Deploying Applications and Files
      • Types of deployment
      • Service package deployment and removal process
      • Deploying a new application
      • Deploy a service package
        • Deploy a Windows service package
        • Deploy a Linux/UNIX service package
      • Register a new application
      • Deploy a service package with your own deployment tool
      • Deploy a service package without a deployment tool
      • Automatically run a command when deploying a service package
      • Run multiple services in an application
      • Remove an application
      • General file package deployment
        • Limitations of rsdeploy
        • File package deployment scripts
        • File package deployment configuration file
        • Directories
        • File deployment logging
        • Deploy a file package using the repository server
          • Create a file package
          • Upload a file package to the repository server
          • Deploy a file package from the repository server
          • Uninstall a file package from hosts
          • Remove a file package from the repository server
          • Troubleshooting file package deployment issues
    • Updating applications
      • Static configuration update
      • About dynamic application updates
      • Update an existing service package
      • Update an existing service package using the CLI
      • Change a service package for an existing service
      • Change a service package using the CLI
      • Add a new service and session type
      • Add a new service and session type using the CLI
      • Assign a new service to an existing session type
      • Assign a new service to an existing session type using the CLI
      • Remove a service/session type
      • Remove a service/session type using the CLI
    • Managing Data
      • Maintaining data affinity between a session and service instances
      • Configuration to save historical data
      • Change the application profile to only log error historical data
    • Application Error Handling
      • Host blocking
    • Application Tuning
      • Using standby services to reduce service startup times
        • Configure standby services
      • Specifying resource preference for sessions and tasks
        • Configure resource preference
      • Optimizing common data for multi-slot hosts
      • Optimizing session manager performance
      • Change the session scheduling interval
      • How resources are scheduled by the session manager
      • Prioritizing sessions for time-critical workload
      • Filtering resource groups for sessions
      • Specify criteria for resource selection
      • Control when applications request or release resources through high- and low-water marks
      • Deployment performance tuning
  • Fault Tolerance and Failover
    • Symphony Fault Tolerance
      • Automatic failure recovery
    • Application Fault Tolerance
      • Data loss prevention
      • Configure a recoverable session
  • Troubleshooting Tools
    • Logs
      • About EGO log files
      • EGO log file properties
      • View EGO log files
      • Change EGO log levels
      • Change EGO log file locations
      • Change Symphony log levels
      • Change time zone settings on Linux/UNIX
      • About log files and levels
    • Events
      • Symphony events
      • Enable events
      • Responding to event message sys_cls_unlicensed
    • Audit Logs
      • EGO audit logs
      • Application-related audit logs
      • Enable EGO event logging for auditing purposes
      • Enable application-event logging for auditing purposes
    • Traces
      • Traces
      • Set a trace
    • Basic troubleshooting
      • Log on to the Platform Management Console
      • Using Client Metadata for Troubleshooting
      • Fix UNKNOWN or DEFAULT Matched Models and Matched Types
      • Detect when failover occurs
      • Safely making configuration file changes
      • Why are tasks running on my master host?