6 Chapter 6. xCAT 2 - advanced administrative topics This chapter introduces and describes some of the common administrative tasks you may encounter in an xCAT environment, such as: Using xCAT 2 to perform additional SW installation tasks Installing monitoring software in xCAT Installing additional software using xCAT postscripts xCAT 2's distributed commands Using xCAT to upgrade System p firmware Adding GPFS to a diskless xCAT cluster PowerVM deployment and management using xCAT Databases - SQLite and MySQL Clustering security Updating xCAT using latest development snaphots Data to gather for support © Copyright IBM Corp. 2009. All rights reserved. 247