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• User Management: How do I authenticate against Kerberos?
  
  Answer: How do I authenticate against Kerberos? How do I authenticate agains Kerberos? For Red Hat based system such as RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux: Rather than modifying files ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: What is a product key?
  
  Answer: What is a product key?   A product key is used to unlock a license.   When you get a Bright Cluster Manager DVD, there is a license included ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How can I add a custom module during installation of BCM?
  
  Answer: It is possible to add custom kernel modules during the head node installation. Adding custom modules can lead to possible instability issues, so it is ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: Can I install from a USB flash drive?
  
  Answer: Yes.   If you mount the Bright Cluster Manager Installation DVD or ISO that you downloaded, you will find a README.BRIGHTUSB file in the top directory that ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How can I mass-produce Bright head node installations using PXE?
  
  Answer: An already-installed (or primary) Bright head node can be used to create a head node PXE image. Machines that are booted using PXE, from the ...
  
  
• General: What do the version numbers mean?
  
  Answer: A major Bright Cluster Manager release has a major number associated with it. For example:   5 (same as 5.0), or 6 (same as 6.0).   A minor ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I put a custom disk layout in the head node installer?
  
  Answer: How do I put a custom disk layout in the head node installer?   The head node installer stages are described in the chapter Installing Bright Cluster ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)?
  
  Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)? This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform?   Assuming that you have installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.6.   XCP can be managed via the CLI or ...
  
  
• Day-to-day Administration: Can I mix Linux distributions on my cluster?
  
  Answer: Can the Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) be used to manage a mix of Linux distributions within the same cluster?Yes.   Introduction   With BCM, multiple, different images can be ...
  
  
• Software Management: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository?
  
  Answer: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository? or How do I update my cluster from a new Bright ISO that I just downloaded?   Outline If ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I login to cmgui with a one-time password?
  
  Answer: How can I authenticate to cmgui with a one-time password?   Introduction:   One time password (OTP) authentication overcomes replay attacks. It allows an administrator to login to a ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright on Virtual Box?   Prerequisite: In order to use PXE booting, the VirtualBox Extension Pack should be installed.   Create a Virtual Machine (VM) for ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare ESXi 5.x?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare ESXi 5.x?   You can follow this guide:   Upload the Bright ISO image into the datastore Host ESXi network configuration Create a virtual ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion?     You can follow this guide:   Create a virtual machine for the head node Install a Bright 7.0 head node Install a ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)?
  
  Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2012R2)?   This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I set up Cluster as a Service (CaaS) on Bright OpenStack 7.2?
  
  Answer: Cluster as a Service on Bright OpenStack 7.2         [The following notes explain setting up a clusters as a service in Bright Cluster Manager. This ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I set up Cluster as a Service (CaaS) on Bright OpenStack 7.1?
  
  Answer: Cluster as a Service on Bright OpenStack 7.1 [The following notes explain setting up a clusters as a service in Bright Cluster Manager. This means that ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright Cluster Manager on an SGI ICE X/XA system?
  
  Answer: Installing Bright on an SGI ICE X/XA system involves first installing the "Admin" node using a Bright Cluster Manager ISO. The ISO could be burned to a ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: Adding Bright to an existing system doesn't work! What now?
  
  Answer: Adding Bright to an existing system doesn't work! What now?   The manual does discourage using the add-on method. If the prerequisites listed in the manual are ...
  
  
• General: How do I create a RHEL or Bright repository for my organization?
  
  Answer: In ceratin cases, the Bright cluster is not able to access the internet directly or having a local repository withing the companies intranet is beneficial ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation?
  
  Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Workstation? You can follow this guide:   Create a virtual machine for the head node   1. Switch to “Home” tab and click ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.1?
  
  Answer:   How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3/8.0 to Bright 8.1?   The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or ...
  
  
• High Availability: How do I set up high-availability NFS with Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I set up high-availability NFS with Bright?   Setting up an HA NFS storage   This article describes how to setup a high availability NFS storage service ...
  
  
• Node Provisioning: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node with Bright?
  
  Answer: How can Windows Server 2008 R2 be provisioned to a node, using Bright?   This guide walks through configuring Bright Cluster Manager 7.1/RHEL7 to deploy Windows Server ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.0 ?
  
  Answer:   How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 to Bright 8.0?   The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I install my head node using a PXE server?
  
  Answer: In certain situations it may be desirable to install a Bright head node by booting it off of a PXE server. There are a few ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2?
  
  Answer: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2?   Upgrades to Bright 8.2 are now supported for the following Linux distributions and Bright versions.   Supported Linux distributions and Bright ...