SGI® Management Center

SGI Management CenterA comprehensive SGI platform-wide software solution for installing, managing and monitoring high performance computing systems.

SGI Management Center provides a powerful yet flexible interface through which to initiate management actions and monitor essential system metrics for all SGI systems. It reduces the time and resources spent administering systems by improving software maintenance procedures and automating repetitive tasks - lowering total cost of ownership, increasing productivity, and providing a better return on the customer's technology investment. SGI Management Center optimizes the performance of single system image systems and clusters scaling to tens of thousands of servers. It is a unifying component of SGI's technical computing software environment.

SGI Management Center is available in multiple editions which tailor features and capabilities to the needs of different administrators, and makes available optional features that further extend system management capabilities.

  • With Standard Edition, administrators and managers have a rich graphical user interface that provides a single view of system health, including server status, performance metrics software images, and supports full remote server control. Standard Edition now also includes high speed provisioning, image management with version control, and, user management.
  • Premium Edition adds fault analysis, power monitoring, advanced GPU management, high availability (HA), BIOS provisioning (ICE X only) and other features to further extend the capabilities of system administrators.
  • Power Option adds the capability to dynamically manage electrical load from individual nodes to the entire system from a single point on the system console. Policy driven dynamic power management allows customers to optimize power per computer cycle and operate effectively within facility power constraints and changing electrical rate structures. Fine grained power management allows processes to continue running and improves reliability and response to changes. This option requires underlying hardware support, which is available in Intel® Xeon® 5600-based servers having TY6 or TY15 motherboards, or for most Intel Xeon E5-2600-based servers, including SGI® ICE™ X. SGI and Intel® worked together on a whitepaper (PDF) highlighting this feature.

Each release of SGI Management Suite adds additional capabilities and options to ultimately enable tightly integrated, end-to-end system monitoring and management over servers, storage, fabric, and other major system components all from a single interface.

Key Feature Summary

Feature Standard Edition Premium Edition Options Benefits
System Management Console √ √   Consolidated, "single pane of glass" view and access to entire system from one console
Monitoring and Metrics √ √   Over 120 selectable metrics from hardware and software sources for each server
Remote Console Management √ √   Remote serial console access, KVM, power and beacon control using SGI Roamer, IPMI and other interfaces
Events and Alerts √ √   Selectable system event reporting and actions - streamlining system operations
Configurable System Dashboards √ √   Customizable dashboards which depict servers, racks, or entire systems provide at-a-glance system status
High Speed, Bare Metal Provisioning √ √   Multi-cast provisioning to all servers simultaneously - minimizing startup time
Image Management with Version Control √ √   Individual control of kernels, distributions, applications and file systems
Power Monitoring   √   Full monitoring for power consumption at a server, group, rack or system level
Memory and GPU Fault Analysis   √   Centralized display and analysis of memory and GPU errors for improved RAS and system utilization
High Availability (HA)   √   System management failover for assured access in business critical systems
BIOS provisioning (ICE X only)   √   Manage BIOS updates system wide from a single system console
Advanced GPU Monitoring and Management   √   Full GPU interface monitoring and management extends administrator control in high performance systems
Dynamic Power Management     √ Provides unprecedented control over power consumption, and maximizes effective computing per watt. Supported on Xeon® 5600-based Rackable servers having the TY6 or TY15 motherboards, and on most E5-2600-based servers including SGI ICE X

SGI Management Center Editions

  • Standard Edition
    • Available at no charge with SGI Rackable and CloudRack servers.
    • Datasheet (PDF)
  • Premium Edition
    • Available for SGI Rackable and CloudRack servers, SGI ICE X and SGI UV systems.
    • Datasheet (PDF)
  • Power Option
    • Available as an option for both Standard and Premium Editions. Power Option requires Intel Node Manager enabled servers with supporting power supply configurations.
    • Datasheet (PDF)

SGI Management Center is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6, and CentOS 5 and 6.