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====== Scali/Manage  ======

  * [[http://www.scali.com]]

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Like Platform/ROCKS (see [[cluster:11|link]]), Scali/Manage is a software suite of tools to manage clusters.  It appears very, very versatile.  Lots of stuff you can do but what attracted my interests in my brief perusals were:
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  * heterogeous clusters (as in, manage the other clsuters on campus ...)

  * "golden" image capture and deployment (you can also "roll-back" to previous versions!)

  * simultaneously deploys RPM installations (so you can perform entire disk image updates with the "images" or incrementally with RPM packages)


  * parallel ssh & file copy support


  * Change Management ... this is a biggie, for example, if you were to add a node: all nodes would need updating, this becomes automatic with change management, it'll auto detect what needs updating on other nodes


  * Fault Handling and Root Cause Analysis ... also a biggie, know when something breaks before it happens



  * Scali/MAnage also handles other servers, server farms, grids and blade racks (so for example, rintintin's image could have been captured and deployed elsewhere, or rolled back after upgrading if unsuccessful)


  * java/eclipse based gui and web based client


  * it also supports PBS Pro, and MPI libraries and MPI/HA ... that is high availability for HA (reasoning goes like ... if jobs run 30 days and a single node fails and MPI is not HA then the entire job is aborted. So HA provides a pathway for atttempting to finish job while hardware underneath gets replaced).


  * And lots more.

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