This guide describes how to use the L1 and L2 controller commands at your system console to monitor and manage the following systems:
SGI Origin 3000 series of servers
SGI Origin 300 series of servers
SGI Origin 300 systems with NUMAlink
SGI Onyx 3000 series of graphics systems
SGI Onyx 300 series of graphics systems.
This guide is written for owners, system administrators, and users of the systems listed in the previous section. General knowledge of computers and computer operation is presumed.
The following topics are covered in this guide:
Chapter 1, “Introducing the L1 and L2 Controllers” describes the function of the L1 and L2 controllers.
Chapter 2, “Using the L1 and L2 Controllers” describes how to use the L1 and L2 controller to monitor and manage the systems.
Chapter 3, “L1 and L2 Controller Commands” describes the L1 and L2 system controller commands.
The following documents contain additional information that may be helpful:
SGI Origin 3000 Series Owner's Guide (007-4240-xxx) introduces the Origin 3000 servers and describes how to operate, manage, modify some aspects of, and maintain the Origin 3000 server.
Note: The L1 and L2 controller command information contained in this user's guide supersedes the L1 and L2 controller command information in SGI Origin 3000 Series Owner's Guide and other owner's and user's guides. SGI Origin 300 User's Guide (007-4365-xxx) introduces the Origin 300 server and describes how to set up and operate the server.
SGI Origin 300 System with NUMAlink Module User's Guide (007-4498-xxx) introduces the server and describes how to set up and operate the server.
SGI Onyx 3000 Series Graphics System Hardware User's Guide (007-4264-xxx) introduces the Onyx 3000 graphics system and describes how to use and administer the graphics system.
SGI Onyx 300 Graphics System User's Guide (007-4509-xxx) describes the Onyx 300 graphics system and describes how to set up and operate the graphics system.
To obtain SGI documentation, see the SGI Technical Publications Library at:
http://techpubs.sgi.com
You can view the release notes for SGI products and software subsystems by using one of two utilities:
| relnotes | Text-based viewer for online release notes | |
| grelnotes | Graphical viewer for online release notes |
To view the IRIX release notes, type the following at a shell prompt:
grelnotes |
To see a list of available release notes, type the following at a shell prompt:
relnotes |
For more information, see the relnotes(1) and grelnotes(1) man pages.
InfoSearch is a unified system for retrieving and viewing online information, providing you with quick and easy access to online information about SGI products. With InfoSearch, you can search or browse through release notes, man pages, application help cards, online books, and other forms of online information.
There are two ways to use InfoSearch:
The infosearch utility, which runs on any Silicon Graphics visual workstation or SGI server with graphics.
A World Wide Web interface, infosrch.cgi, that you can access through any Web browser.
An SGI system can be configured as an InfoSearch server so that other systems on your network can use it to retrieve information. However, each system must include graphics support in order to use InfoSearch, either with the infosearch command or via a Web browser.
For basic information about getting started with InfoSearch, see the reference pages for infosearch(1), sgindexAdmin(1), booksAdmin(1), and infosrch.cgi(1).
This document uses these conventions:
References to document titles are in italics.
IRIX commands and names of files appear in text as Courier.
References to other chapters and sections within this guide are in quotation marks.
Anything that you type on the keyboard is in Courier bold.
Anything displayed on the screen is in Courier.
Names of IRIX man pages are in the default font and are followed by the section number of the reference page. For example who(1) refers to the who command, which is found in section 1 of the IRIX reference.
Steps to perform tasks are in numbered sentences. When a numbered step needs more explanation, the explanation follows the step and is preceded by a bullet.
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You can contact SGI in any of the following ways:
Send e-mail to the following address:
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Use the Feedback option on the Technical Publications Library Web page:
http://techpubs.sgi.com
Contact your customer service representative and ask that an incident be filed in the SGI incident tracking system.
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