# xCAT 2 Cookbooks

- xCAT 2 Intro to the Cookbooks - installing and setting up xCAT. Contains pointers to all xCAT info.
- xCAT iDataplex Cookbook - setting up a system x rack mounted cluster
- xCAT BladeCenter Cookbook - setting up a BladeCenter cluster
- xCAT Statelite Cookbook - setting up a Linux cluster with NFS root diskless nodes
- xCAT system p Linux Cookbook - setting up a system p cluster with Linux
- xCAT AIX Cookbook - creating an xCAT management node on AIX
- xCAT AIX RTE Nodes - installing an AIX standalone system using the NIM "rte" method
- xCAT AIX mksysb Nodes - installing an AIX standalone system using an AIX mksysb image (cloning)
- xCAT AIX Diskless Nodes - booting AIX diskless nodes
- xCAT AIX JS Blade Nodes
- Updating AIX Software on xCAT Nodes

# xCAT 2 Special Topics

- Monitoring an xCAT Cluster
- Synchronizing Configuration Files to Nodes
- Updating xCAT Nodes
- Managing the Infiniband Network
- Setup MySQL as the xCAT Database
- Setup PostgreSQL as the xCAT Database
- Setup DB2 as the xCAT Database
- Setting Up a Linux Hierarchical Cluster
- Setting Up an AIX Hierarchical Cluster
- Discovering and Configuring System p Hardware
- Installing and Running the xCAT Web Interface
- Setting UP LDAP in an xCAT Cluster
- xCAT 2 Advanced Topics - covers QS22 blades, compressed stateless, and NFS-hybrid stateless. A little out of date.
- xCAT 2 Developers Guide
- Uninstalling xCAT
- CSM To xCAT2 Migration

# xCAT 2 on the Internet

- xCAT 2 web site
- Download xCAT 2
- The xCAT Project on SourceForge
- xCAT command man pages
- xCAT table descriptions
- xCAT 2 Wiki
- xCAT 2 Source in Subversion
- xCAT 2 Bugs in Tracker
- xCAT Mailing List
- xCAT 2 Open Source License: Eclipse Public License