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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 ...
- Configuring: How do I add a login node? Answer: How do I add a login node? Table of contents Why have a login node?What do we need to consider for login nodes?1. Make a login image ...
- 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 ...
- Cluster Management: When does a node need to be restarted? Answer: When does a node need to be restarted? Why does a node need to be restarted? Can I ignore it? How do I clear that ...
- Cluster Management: Why can I login to the node as root, but not as a regular user? Answer: Two likely possibilities: 1. Maybe because /home is not mounted. Or 2. Maybe because users have been configured by Bright Cluster Manager to prevent ssh access. So check these ...
- High Availability: Can I replicate my own MySQL database using the failover mechanism supplied by Bright? Answer: Yes. All the MySQL databases can be replicated between the active and passive, not just CMDaemon and Slurm. (Have a look in the Admin Manual for ...
- Cloudbursting: How do I connect from the cloud to a local device (outside of Bright Cluster Answer: How do I connect from the cloud to a local device? The network topology Here, the local device is outside of Bright Cluster Manager control, and just ...
- Cloudbursting: How do I change the openVPN port used to access the cloud ? Answer: How do I change the openVPN port used to access the cloud ? By default, Cluster Extension (hybrid) cloudbursting uses UDP port 1194 to run a ...
- Cluster Management: How do I install the JSON cmgui ? Answer: The standalone JSON cmgui, available in Bright 6.0 and upwards, can run on any regular desktop client machine, including on a MacOS desktop. The software ...
- Workload Management: How do I run interactive Ansys Fluent using Slurm? Answer: You can use the following script: [cmsupport@bright60 ~] cat ./fluent-srun.sh #!/usr/bin/env bashHOSTSFILE=.hostlist-job$SLURM_JOB_IDif [ "$SLURM_PROCID" == "0" ]; then srun hostname -f > $HOSTSFILE fluent -t $SLURM_NTASKS ...
- Third Party Software: How do I integrate GPFS 3.x with Bright? Answer: How do I integrate GPFS with Bright? GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- General: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? Answer: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? With the following recipe: Contents 1 How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Upgrading a software ...
- 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 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 ...
- 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: 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 ...
- Configuring: What is cm-register-node, and how can I use it? Answer: What is cm-register-node, and how can I use it? (was: How can I add an SGI UV node to an existing Bright Cluster?) Written in catechismic ...
- General: How can Nagios be integrated with Bright Cluster Manager? Answer: Integrating Nagios with Bright Cluster Manager [This is only valid for Bright 7.2, and not for later versions.] The integration between Nagios and Bright is done via ...
- Security: Can I use Google Authenticator to connect to my cluster? Answer: Can I use Google Authenticator to connect to my cluster? Yes, Google Authenticator can be used to connect to the cluster via SSH and cmgui. Google ...
- User Management: How Do I Integrate Bright With Active Directory using the native AD provider of SSSD? Answer: How Do I Integrate Bright With AD provider from SSSD? There are many ways to enroll a UNIX client to an Active Directory domain. The other ...
- User Management: How do I define a password policy in LDAP? Answer: How do I define a password policy in LDAP? Changing the default password hash algorithm (Tested on RHEL6. For RHEL7 some steps may not be valid) passwd-hash configures ...
- User Management: How do I authenticate against Active Directory using Centrify? Answer: How do I authenticate against Active Directory using Centrify?' Centrify aims at making integration of Linux and Mac OS X systems as easy as possible. It ...
- Initialize And Finalize Scripts: How do I use the finalize script to transfer certificates to the nodes? Answer: How do I use the finalize script to transfer certificates to the nodes? In many cases, it might be desired to use node-specific certificates for certain ...
- OpenStack: OpenStack Neutron Mellanox ML2 Driver Configuration in Bright Answer: Abstract This article describes how to use the Mellanox Neutron ...
- OpenStack: How do I install Cloud Foundry on Bright OpenStack? Answer: Cloud Foundry installation on Bright Openstack 1- A working Openstack environment, API access, credentials, and a working networking configuration with metadata access is assumed. Running the following ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I install BeeGFS? Answer: How do I install BeeGFS? Integrating BeeGFS with Bright is described here. We use the following configuration: Hosts: beegfs-mgmt: Bright 7.1/RHEL7 Head Node beegfs-mds: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss01: RHEL7 Server beegfs-ss02: RHEL7 Server beegfs-client001: ...
- OpenStack: How can OpenStack be deployed on a Bright 7.0 HA Cluster? Answer: Notes on deploying OpenStack on HA ClustersWe start with a single headnode cluster: - deploy openstack - add second headnodeRequirements: Bright Cluster Manager 7.0 (OpenStack Icehouse)One ...
- 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, ...
- OpenStack: How do I use Docker With OpenStack? Answer: Can I use Docker as a hypervisor for OpenStack (Juno)? There are several possible ways of using Docker with OpenStack. The one described here is based ...
- Security: How do I configure Bright to manage a Self Encrypted Drive (SED)? Answer: This article explains Bright Cluster Manager can be configured to manage a regular node with a Self Encrypted Drive (SED), so that the regular node ...
- 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 ...
- User Management: How can PowerBroker be used with Bright? Answer: How can PowerBroker be used with Bright? PowerBroker allows AD authentication services to work with Linux. It can be made to work with Bright. The following ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- OpenStack: How can I add multiple storage backends to Bright OpenStack? Answer: How can I add multiple storage backends to Bright OpenStack? The type of virtual machine storage that is needed can be configured, either by configuring flavors, ...
- Third Party Software: How do I integrate GPFS 4.x with Bright? Answer: How do I integrate GPFS with Bright? GPFS can be integrated with Bright in two ways. Either by mounting a GPFS filesystem on an existing Bright ...
- OpenStack: How to setup Cluster-on-Demand (COD) for Bright OpenStack 7.3 and 8.0 Answer: Introduction Bright Cluster-on-Demand for OpenStack is a component of Bright OpenStack. It allows Bright OpenStack users to create virtual Bright clusters inside a Bright OpenStack private ...
- 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 ...
- Node Provisioning: How do I (re)install an operating system on a compute node disk, without losing data Answer: How do I (re)install an operating system on a regular node (compute node) disk, without losing data on the other disks of that node? Sometimes an ...
- OpenStack: How do I extend an OpenStack cluster with extra controller/network nodes? Answer: How do I extend an OpenStack cluster with extra controller/network nodes? Scenario: You have installed OpenStack with one controller. Now you want to add two more controllers ...
- OpenStack: How can SR-IOV IB passthrough be set up for virtual machines with OpenStack Nova? Answer: How can SR-IOV IB passthrough be set up for virtual machines with OpenStack Nova?Allowing OpenStackNetworking and OpenStackCompute to create SR-IOV ports has been possible since ...
- OpenStack: How do I set up PCI passthrough on OpenStack? Answer: How do I set up PCI passthrough on OpenStack? PCI passthrough on OpenStack This article describes how PCI passthrough can be used in Bright OpenStack. Two different ...
- 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 ...
- Containers: How can I use GPUs with Bright Deep learning stack? Answer: This is a Dockerfile that can be used to create a Bright Deep Learning Docker image. Once instantiated using the nvidia-docker command, applications running within ...