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- Configuring: How do I make regular nodes return an FQDN using 'hostname -f'? Or resolve the Answer: How do I make regular nodes return an FQDN using 'hostname -f'? Or resolve the hostnames to IPs on the external network? There are two ways ...
- Configuring: Why do I only have 6 search domains in my cluster? Answer: Why do I only have 6 search domains in my cluster? I have defined plenty more!If you keep adding search domains via the partition base ...
- 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 ...
- High Availability: How can I configure a dedicated cloning network in an HA cluster? Answer: How can I configure a dedicated cloning network for HA? Introduction There are situations where configuring a dedicated cloning network on your headnode HA is required, or ...
- OpenStack: OpenStack Neutron Mellanox ML2 Driver Configuration in Bright Answer: Abstract This article describes how to use the Mellanox Neutron ...
- Containers: How do I expose a Kubernetes service to an external network in Bright 8.1? Answer: There are many ways of exposing a Kubernetes service to an external network. This article describes two methods of exposing Kubernetes to an external network. The methods ...
- 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 ...
- Workload Management: Why is my workload manager configuration changed by Bright? Answer: Why is my workload manager configuration changed by Bright? Or perhaps: How do I make configuration changes to the workload manager (WLM) permanent? If the configuration changes of ...
- Software Management: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder into Bright 8.2? Answer: How can I install Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Forwarder on Bright 8.2? By following the procedure outlined here: Installing Splunk-Forwarder and building a new software image: The method ...
- Configuring: How can I easily check the InfiniBand network is being used rather than my gigabit Answer: A no-brainer way to verify your IB network is working with MPI is to run an MPI benchmark and see if it is running at ...
- Initialize And Finalize Scripts: How do I handle network interfaces swapping names? Answer: How do I handle network interfaces swapping names? eth0 keeps changing randomly on boot to eth1 and vice versa. There are two ways to handle this ...
- Configuring: My external IPoIB hardware isn't fragmenting packets properly, how do I fix that? Answer: Background While IP over Infiniband (IPoIB) on the internal network is handled without a problem because it all runs on IB hardware, IPoIB on an external ...
- Configuring: How do I make hostname -f return the FQDN for a dynamic IP address (on Answer: How do I make hostname -f return the FQDN for a dynamic IP address (on the non-bootable network interface)? This comes in useful for some SGE ...
- 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 ...
- 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 do I run the HPL test on a Bright Cluster? Answer: How do I run the HPL test on a Bright Cluster? What is HPL? Slightly rewording from http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/hpl/: HPL is a software package that solves a random, dense ...
- Configuring: How do I update behind a proxy? Answer: How do I update Bright if it is connected to the network behind a web proxy server? If you are sitting behind a network proxy server ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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. ...
- 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 ...
- 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: 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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: ...
- Software Management: How do I enable a graphical (X11) login after installation? Answer: Why Is The SLES Graphical Console Disabled After Installation? After the Bright head node installation for SLES, the Graphical console option is disabled. This is because ...
- 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 can I integrate Bright OpenStack 7.1 Keystone with LDAP/AD? Answer: How can I integrate Keystone with LDAP?Here it is assumed that OpenStack was set up by Bright Cluster Manager 7.1 and is up and running. The ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...