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This publication documents Clustered Highly Available Server Environment (CHASE) release 1.0, CHASE-FILESERVER-1.0, and CHASE-WEBSERVER-1.0 running on SGI 1450 systems. It assumes that SGI ProPack 1.4 has already been installed on the systems in your cluster.

This document explains how to perform configuration, installation, and administrative tasks specific to CHASE.

Related Publications and Web Sites

The following documents and Web sites contain additional information that may be helpful:

Apache:
- Apache product Web page: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/apache
- Apache home page: http://www.apache.org
FailSafe:
- FailSafe product Web page: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/failsafe
- Manuals available from the SGI online Technical Publications Library
  http://techpubs.sgi.com:
  - Linux FailSafe Administrator's Guide
  - Linux FailSafe Programmer's Guide
Samba:
- Samba product Web page: http://www.sgi.com/software/samba
- Samba home page: http://www.samba.org
SGI ProPack:
- SGI ProPack site: http://oss.sgi.com/projects
- Manual available from the SGI online Technical Publications Library
  http://techpubs.sgi.com:
  - SGI ProPack 1.4 for Linux Start Here
TP9100:
- Manual available from the SGI online Technical Publications Library
  http://techpubs.sgi.com:
  - SGI Total Performance 9100 Storage System Owner's Guide
VACM:
- VACM Web site: http://www.valinux.com/software/vacm

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Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention

Meaning

command

This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.

manpage(x)

Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names. The following list describes the identifiers:

1	User commands
1B	User commands ported from BSD
2	System calls
3	Library routines, macros, and opdefs
4	Devices (special files)
4P	Protocols
5	File formats
7	Miscellaneous topics
7D	DWB-related information
8	Administrator commands

Some internal routines (for example, the _assign_asgcmd_info() routine) do not have man pages associated with them.

variable

Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.

user input

This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.

[ ]

Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.

...

Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.

System shell prompt for the superuser (root).

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