This IBM Redbook is a practical cookbook that provides up-to-date information about Cluster Systems Management (CSM) for AIX 5L for a pSeries environment. The book provides information about the latest CSM for AIX 5L enhancements, including implementation techniques, installation changes, installation tools, system management tools, monitoring tools, hardware control, file distribution, problem determination, and management server high availability.

This book summarizes the latest news in CSM 1.4.0. It contains a Q&A chapter, a CSM installation scenario, a CSM advanced chapter, CSM migration scenarios, and a CSM cluster administration chapter. We include information about how to manage Linux nodes on pSeries hardware including operating system installation and node management in a mixed cluster environment.

This book is targeted to technical professionals (consultants, IT architects, and IT specialists) who are responsible for providing pSeries clustering solutions.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. New features in CSM 1.4.0
Chapter 3. CSM installation scenario
Chapter 4. CSM advanced features implementation
Chapter 5. CSM migration scenario
Chapter 6. CSM cluster administration
Chapter 7. CSM High Availability Management Server
Appendix A. Simple user management and authentication via LDAP
Appendix B. Managing IBM WebSphere Application Server with CSM