Cluster management

Learn how to manage and maintain your IBM® Spectrum Conductor cluster.

Starting your cluster
Start your cluster by starting EGO on all the hosts in your cluster.
Shutting down your cluster
Shut down your cluster by stopping EGO on all the hosts in your cluster.
Restarting your cluster
Restart your cluster by restarting EGO on all the hosts in your cluster.
Starting, shutting down, or restarting EGO faster
To increase cluster performance, you can start, shutdown, or restart your cluster faster by specifying commands to run in parallel. On Linux, use forked processes to implement parallel execution. This parallel execution allows the system to complete start, shutdown, and restart commands faster.
Understanding the Dashboard
The cluster management console Dashboard is a window into your cluster. It provides a quick overview of the health of your cluster and a summary of your workload.
Viewing system entitlement
View your entitlement from the cluster management console on the System Entitlement page.
Viewing cluster summary
View a summary of your cluster from the cluster management console.
Viewing and modifying cluster properties
View and modify some properties of your cluster from the cluster management console.
Running IBM Spectrum Conductor without external DNS
For IBM Spectrum Conductor to work, your cluster must be able to resolve IP addresses of host names. When host name resolution through an external DNS server is not available, especially in cloud environments, you can use static host name resolution by adding all management hosts to the OS hosts file. Alternatively, configure primary and primary-candidate hosts in the OS hosts file and set up the Service Director in IBM Spectrum Conductor to act as an internal DNS server.
Host management
Learn how to manage hosts in your cluster.
Ports and protocol support
Learn about the ports that are used by IBM Spectrum Conductor and the protocols that are used by EGO.
System services
A system service runs internal processes for IBM Spectrum Conductor.
Package deployment
Learn about package deployment.
Fault tolerance and failover
Learn about fault tolerance and failover.
Reports
To ensure that your cluster is running efficiently, you can generate reports to analyze and improve the performance of your cluster, to perform capacity planning, and for troubleshooting. When reporting is set up, data is collected from the cluster and maintained in a relational database. The data is then extracted from the database and displayed in reports, either graphically or in tables.
Auditing
Auditing in IBM Spectrum Conductor involves event auditing and license auditing.