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- Workload Management: How can a PBSPro Server installed externally get recognized by a head node? Answer: An externally installed PBS Pro server is not visible to Bright Cluster Manager, by default. But this can be made possible, with a few tricks, as ...
- Third Party Software: How can I use the Intel VTune XE with Bright? Answer: Introduction Intel's VTune Amplifier is a commercial application for performance analysis on 32 and 64-bit x86 based machines, and has both GUI and command-line interfaces. Basic features ...
- User Management: How do I integrate Bright with AD Using SSSD 's LDAP provider and Simple BIND? Answer: How do I integrate a Bright cluster into an Active Directory domain with SSSD 's LDAP provider? (The method in "How do I authenticate against Active ...
- OpenStack: How do I integrate Bright OpenStack with an external Ceph storage? Answer: How do I add External Ceph to Bright OpenStack? A local Ceph can be set up on Bright clusters with the cm-ceph-setup script and used as ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? Answer: How do I install the AMD FirePro GPU Driver on Bright? The AMD FirePro GPU driver can be installed, and the OpenCL feature checked, on Bright ...
- OpenStack: OpenStack Neutron Mellanox ML2 Driver Configuration in Bright Answer: Abstract This article describes how to use the Mellanox Neutron ...
- Workload Management: How do I add a submit host to GE? Answer: How do I add a submit host to GE (Grid Engine)? Edit /cm/local/apps/cmd/etc/cmd.conf and add the following advanced configuration parameter: # vim /cm/local/apps/cmd/etc/cmd.conf [...] AdvancedConfig = { "AdditionalSubmitHosts=<hostname>" } restart ...
- Node Provisioning: How do I automatically plug in new nodes and assign it an identity in Bright? Answer: How do I automatically plug in new nodes and assign it an identity in Bright? The following technique can save labor, when you are adding a ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under KVM? Answer: How to install Bright under KVM In this post we are going to explore the installation of Bright Cluster Manager on top of the KVM hypervisor. There ...
- User Management: How do I configure Bright to authenticate against an external NIS server? Answer: How do I configure Bright to authenticate against an external NIS server? The examples in this article assume: A Type 1 network. A Type 1 network is ...
- Power Management: How Do I monitor APM In An HP Apollo 8000? Answer: APM Monitoring Setup for An HP Apollo 8000 rack in Bright 7.x Static Routes: The head node can access the APMs through an intermediate host which has ...
- OpenStack: How do I deploy Bright OpenStack 7.1 (Juno) on an HA cluster? Answer: Deploying a Bright OpenStack 7.1 cluster is explained here. The deployment is described for OpenStack running with or without Ceph storage. For Deployments withouth Ceph, ...
- 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 ...
- Node Provisioning: How do I revert back to PXE boot over TFTP instead of HTTP? Answer: How do I revert back to PXE boot over TFTP instead of HTTP?Starting from Bright 7.3, HTTP is used for nodes PXE booting instead of ...
- Cloudbursting: How can I attach an EBS snapshot volume to a new node in Amazon EC2? Answer: Advanced customization of Amazon EC2 instances — attaching snapshots In some cases there is a need to automatically attach an EBS volume created from a snapshot ...
- Power Management: Power control broke after an iLO4 firmware upgrade -- what now? Answer: The Built-in Power Control is Failing After Upgrading the Firmware of iLO4 to version 2.30 Bright uses the locfg.pl script, which comes from HP, to do ...
- Cloudbursting: How do I use EBS volume snapshots to boot my cloud nodes? Answer: Why should I use snapshots? Because it reduces the provisioning times of your cloud nodes. Some more background details By default, all newly-created cloud nodes, and their associated ...
- NVIDIA DGX: How do I add NVIDIA DGX nodes to a Bright cluster using the official Ubuntu Answer: How do I add NVIDIA DGX nodes to a Bright cluster using the official Ubuntu DGX software stack? Bright provides a software image for the official ...
- High Availability: How to Install Lustre with ZFS and HA for OSS and MDS Nodes Answer: Prerequisites: 2 OSS nodes connected via SAS over multiple paths to their own JBOD shared storage (minimum eight drives) 2 MDS nodes connected via SAS over multiple ...
- Configuring: How do I install LUKS/NBDE onto Bright nodes? Answer: How do I use LUKS + NBDE "Network-Bound Disk Encryption" to encrypt data on regular Bright nodes? Introduction: This FAQ describes how to use Network-Bound Disk Encryption ...
- Cloudbursting: How can cluster extension to an existing VPC be done (7.3)? Answer: This article describes how to configure cm-cluster-extension to an already existing VPC (and vpc subnets). Start cm-cluster-extension CLI tool, select "Add cloud provider" menu entry. Follow on-screen ...
- Cloudbursting: How to configure Cluster Extension to AWS without OpenVPN (7.3+) Answer: This article describes how to configure Cluster Extension cloudbursting to AWS on a Bright 7.3 cluster without relying on OpenVPN for communication between the headnode ...
- Support And Documentation: Can I keep this support request open, just in case? Answer: Here is a kind of FAQ we get quite often: "Hi Support, thanks for solving this issue. It appears to be working as designed. Can we ...