1. © 2007 IBM Corporation IBM Global Engineering Solutions IBM Blue Gene/P Blue Gene/P Navigator

2. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Agenda  Screenshot  New and changed pages  Setup changes  Plug-ins

3. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Screen shot Attention Area Navigation Area Main Content Area Dashboard

4. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration New and changed pages  Attention Area  Shows Fatal / Error / Info + Warning counts rather than KF / AF / KI.  Health Center  Lists jobs using proactive and reactive power management  Lists attention plug-in messages  MMCS  Commands not available: bdb2xml, mdb2xml, redirect  RAS Event Log  New filter options and columns to match the DB schema  Info button next to each RAS event shows details (Description and Service Action)  System Logs  New filter option to show logs containing a timestamp

5. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration New and changed pages (cont.)  Environmental Queries  New filter options and result tables to match the DB schema  Hardware Browser  Changed to match the DB schema  Shows a summary of the replacement history  Replacement History  Shows hardware that’s been replaced (from TBgpReplacement_history)  Block Builder  Can create small blocks  Diagnostics  Changes to match DB schema (multiple midplanes in a run)  Configure new run options –Pset ratio –Stop on error –Save all output NEW

6. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration New and Changed Pages (cont.)  Service Actions  Can prepare and end service actions  Wizard to pick location and shows affected jobs  BG/P Master  View the status, start, and stop control system servers  RAS Message Types  Browse the TBgpErrCodes table  Also shows occurrences of event types  Job Details  Shows breakdown of RAS Events NEW

7. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Setup Changes  Supported clients are Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7  Navigator runs in a Tomcat instance under BGPMaster  Start and stop using bgpmaster  Runs as bgpadmin rather than tomcat (or whoever started bgpmaster)  Listens on port 32072 rather than 8080, uses https so password is protected  Can configure to allow authenticated access to end-user pages  Can also configure anonymous access to end-user pages  Configuration options set in /bgsys/local/etc/navigator-config.xml  Contains group mappings  Override defaults  Add resource links  Configure plug-ins

8. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Setup Changes – Navigator Config File  Group mappings  Administrator Group –Can access everything in the Navigator –Example: bgpadmin  Service Group –Used by IBM Service – can’t do MMCS Console –Example: bgpservice  User Group –Only end-user pages –Example: bgpuser  Overriding  Use the same element as the driver’s navigator-config.xml –Example: 5

9. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Setup Changes – Resource Links  Add links to the Resources section of the Navigation Area  Example: wiki Blue Gene Wiki http://bgweb.rchland.ibm.com/bgl/wiki/index.php 2000

10. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Plug-ins  Two types of plug-ins  Attention –Causes the Attention Indicator to be displayed –Messages displayed in the Health Center  Chart –New graph for the Dashboard  Creating a Plug-in  Write the code extending a class  Create a jar file, put in /bgsys/local/lib/navigator  Write a description file /bgsys/local/etc/navigator-config..xml  Driver includes documentation  An example of each type of plug-in (including source) –High node temp –Diagnostics interval  API JavaDocs for developers

11. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Plug-ins – Attention  Base Class com.ibm.bluegene.navigator.attention.AbstractAttentionPlugin  public void initialize( AttentionPluginConfig config, DataSource dataSource ) –This will be called when the context starts to initialize this plug-in.  public boolean isAttentionRequired( HttpServletRequest request, Connection conn ) –This method is called to determine if attention is required  public String getLabel() –The label is displayed in the Health Center  public List getAttentionMessages( HttpServletRequest request, Connection conn ) –Return the messages to be displayed in the Health Center

12. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Plug-ins – Attention (cont.)  Description file  Goes in /bgsys/local/etc/navigator-config..xml  Sample contents: Sample1 com.example.plugin

13. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Plug-ins – Chart  Base Class com.ibm.bluegene.navigator.charts.AbstractChartGenerator  public void initialize( ChartPluginConfig config, String context_name, DataSource dataSource ) –Called when the context is started to initialize the plug-in  public String getLabel() –The value to display above the chart in the Dashboard  public String getLegendHtml() –The legend info to display next to the chart in the Dashboard  public ChartInfo getChartInfo( HttpServletRequest request ) –This is called every time the dashboard image is requested by a client to get the information about the chart. – The chart information contains, for example, the URL that will be put in the image SRC. Label Legend

14. IBM Blue Gene/P System Administration Plug-ins – Chart (cont.)  Description file  Goes in /bgsys/local/etc/navigator-config..xml  Sample contents: Sample1 com.example.MyChartPlugin 500