The SCS server is responsible in part for coordinating and maintaining configuration across the various elements of a Swarm site ecosystem. It is not oriented to any part of the ecosystem and has a separate conceptual approach to managing the various elements.

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Services Node for Swarm

The SCS server is an extensible service node for managing Swarm. On a single server, it configures the environment and coordinates the support services needed to deploy hardware into and support a Swarm cluster. It replaces the original Caringo Services Node (CSN).

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• CLI (Command-Line Interface) — - see SCS CLI Commands

  • The CLI, called scsctl, is a native application installed on the SCS server.

  • To get CLI help, type: scsctl help

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However, configuration files are not limited to only referencing settings associated with that component. For example, the configuration file for a storage node is not limited only to settings provided by the storage component. Any setting provided by any component within SCS may be referenced (logging server IP address provided by platform, DNS settings provided by network_boot, etc).

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