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- Cluster Monitoring: How can I monitor a CoolIT rack with Bright? Answer: How can I monitor a CoolIT rack with Bright? CoolIT is a vendor of water-cooled racks that have sensors to monitor the rack. CoolIT racks can ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hortonworks HDP 2.3.0 Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 generate a build config from a running cluster? Answer: This article describes how to generate a build config (which can be fed into the Bright head node installer) from a running cluster configuration. Prerequisites This works ...
- Workload Management: How do I integrate externally executed UGE/SGE server with Bright Cluster Manager 6.0? Answer: Mount the $SGE_ROOT directory from your external server that is to be managed by the Bright Cluster Manager (BCM) head node. Make sure that q* ...
- Third Party Software: How does the {mlnx|qlgc}-ofed(2)-install.sh script work? Answer: How does the mlnx-ofed*-install.sh/qlgc-ofed-install.sh script work? The script installs "mlnx-ofa_kernel.x86_64" and "mlnx-ofa_kernel-devel.x86_64" on the head node or in the software image. These are the actual OFED ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I install FreeIPA onto a Bright Cluster? Answer: How do I install FreeIPA onto a Bright Cluster?1. Install packages:# yum -y install ipa-server2. Stop LDAP server:# cmsh -c "device services master; stop ldap"3. ...
- Workload Management: How do I install Condor on Bright? Answer: How do I install HTCondor on top of a Bright Cluster? HTCondor can be installed on top of a Bright Cluster as follows: On the head node 1. ...
- General: Is upgrading from version 5.2 to 6.0 possible by changing the download repositories? Answer: No. You can't upgrade directly from 5.2 to 6.0 because the APIs and CMDaemon database have changed significantly. Trying to do this would be pretty complicated ...
- General: How can I configure Isilon's DNS and NFS with Bright? Answer: How can I configure Isilon's DNS and NFS with Bright? DNS setup for use with Isilon SmartConnect [1] The DNS running on the Bright head node can ...
- 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 ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- OpenStack: How do I upgrade Bright OpenStack? Answer: How do I upgrade Bright OpenStack? Upgrading OpenStack and Bright Openstack Major Versions Let’s get right to it. Upgrading any OpenStack distribution, from one major version, to ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I assign IP addresses to other devices (using DHCP)? Answer: If you have some additional devices which are to have a DHCP-provided IP address based on their MAC, but which are not regular compute nodes, ...
- Day-to-day Administration: How can I set up a reverse proxy for the user portal from 7.1 onward? Answer: How can I set up a reverse proxy for the user portal (and Bright View in 8.x) from 7.1 onward? In this KB article we describe ...
- 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 ...
- Workload Management: How do I configure BeeGFS on demand? Answer: How do I configure BeeGFS on demand? BeeOND ("BeeGFS OnDemand", pronounced like the word "beyond") was developed to enable easy creation of one or multiple BeeGFS ...
- 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 ...
- OpenStack: How can I install OpenStack Magnum from source on BCM 8.1? Answer: This KB describes how to install and configure the Container Infrastructure Management service, code-named Magnum, on the OpenStack controller. The procedures were tested on a BCM ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I integrate ZFS with Bright? Answer: How do I integrate ZFS on Bright? Here's a recipe to follow: Installing and Configuring A ZFS filesystem on top of a Bright Cluster CENTOS 6 On the ...
- Configuring: How do I replicate additional non-Bright databases? Answer: How do I replicate additional non-Bright databases? Sometimes the cluster administrator may arrange for more databases to be configured for a non-Bright application. These are independent ...
- Containers: Does Bright's Kubernetes installation stick to open cloud standards? Answer: Or:How can I verify that Bright's Kubernetes deployment passes the official CNCF conformance tests? The CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) is a vendor neutral foundation that ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hortonworks Hadoop instance? Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- Big Data: How can I add Apache Oozie to my hadoop Cloudera CDH 5.7.1 instance (based on Answer: How can I add Apache Oozie to my Hadoop instance? Apache Oozie is a workflow scheduler system to manage Apache Hadoop jobs. Here we describe how ...
- Configuring: How do I customize postfix? Answer: Short answer: The standard linux way, on the head node only. For Bright Cluster Manager 7 onwards, the relay host can be managed by BCM in ...
- 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 ...
- Third Party Software: How do I install Mesos on a Bright Cluster? Answer: The installation of Mesos with the Marathon and Chronos frameworks on a Bright Cluster is described in this article. Upstream documentation for these applications can be ...
- High Availability: How do I configure PBSPro HA with DAS shared storage? Answer: How do I configure PBSPro High Availability with DAS shared storage? Bright Cluster Manager does not support HA (High Availability) for PBSPro when the shared storage ...
- 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 ...
- Workload Management: How do I Install MOAB 9.x on top of Bright? Answer: How do I install MOAB in Bright? (Tested on Bright 7.3 with torque 6.0.1) 1. Download MOAB sources from Adaptive website and extract it on the head ...
- Workload Management: How do I Install HTCondor from sources on top of a Bright Cluster Answer: How to Install HTCondor from sources on top of a Bright Cluster HTCondor can be installed on top of a Bright Cluster as follows: Note: The following ...
- Containers: How do I expose a Kubernetes service to an external network in Bright 7.3/8.0? Answer: There are many ways of exposing a Kubernetes service to an external network. In this article, two methods are described. Each has its advantages and ...
- OpenStack: How do I add Ceph OSDs to an existing Ceph cluster? Answer: How do I add an OSD to a Ceph cluster manually? How to manually add an OSD to a Ceph cluster This procedure was tested on Bright ...
- 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 ...
- Initialize And Finalize Scripts: How can I reboot from an initialize/finalize script? Answer: On a regular node, the initialize and finalize scripts run in the pre-provisioning, pre-init, early user space, initial root file system environment. That means that ...
- 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 ...
- Workload Management: How do I install HTCondor from EPEL repository on Bright? Answer: How do I install HTCondor from EPEL repository on Bright? On the head node 1. Install the HTCondor packages: # yum install condor 2. Modify /etc/condor/condor_config so that the ...