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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 ...