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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 can I integrate Bright OpenStack 7.3 Keystone with LDAP/AD? Answer: How can I integrate Bright OpenStack 7.3 Keystone with LDAP/AD? Bright OpenStack 7.3 uses a backend driver to communicate with AD using LDAP. This keystone backend driver ...
- 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 ...
- General: How do I change CMDaemon's port? Answer: CMDaemon by default uses these pair of ports: 8080 and 8081 (for SSL). To change these ports to other ones, for example: 8084 and 8085 (SSL): Stop CMDaemon on the headnodes ...
- OpenStack: How do I configure CephFS? Answer: This article explains how to configure CephFS on a Bright Cluster. This procedure has the following requirements: Bright Cluster Manager 8.0 or higher version. Ceph already deployed ...
- Cluster Monitoring: How do I configure Grafana for Bright 8.1 Answer: Setup Grafana with Bright 8.1 With this KB article we are going to setup Grafana on a Bright cluster, in order to consume metrics from cmdaemon. Note: ...
- OpenStack: How do I configure Manila in Bright OpenStack 8.0/8.1? Answer: This article explains how to deploy the Manila file sharing service in a Bright Openstack cluster. In this deployment CephFS will be used as the ...
- OpenStack: How do I integrate Ironic with Bright OpenStack 8.2? Answer: NOTE: The guidance given in the following text is based on an investigation by Bright engineers. The end result is an Ironic integration that proved to ...
- Security: How is a spoofing attack avoided in AD with Bright? Answer: How is a spoofing attack avoided in AD with Bright? [Everyone I speak with about joining a node to AD indicates that there is a unique ...
- 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 ...
- User Management: How do I integrate ldap-passwd-webui with Bright? Answer: What is ldap-passwd-webui? A simple tool, written entirely in Python. The original tool can be found at https://github.com/jirutka/ldap-passwd-webuiIt allows the end user to change their password ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I add an alias interface? Answer: How do I add alias interfaces to the regular nodes? [Background note: IP aliasing allows you to configure multiple IP addresses on one physical interface. This ...
- Configuring: How does gatewaying in Bright work? Answer: How do I work out/adjust the gateway network properties in Bright? The value of the "GATEWAY" directive in Linux's /etc/sysconfig/network is determined as follows in a ...
- 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 ...
- Node Provisioning: Timeouts during loading of InfiniBand drivers make my filesystem clients fail. Is there a workaround? Answer: Yes. Driver modules load in a hierarchy (a dependency chain), and delays due to non-standard use can cause timeouts as one particular driver module may not ...
- Workload Management: How do I add a torque job submission host? Answer: There are instructions for this at http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&id=30 The official TORQUE instructions to configure a submit node are at: http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs/1.3advconfig.shtml#jobsubmithosts ...
- Node Provisioning: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? Answer: How can I flash update all my nodes (from DOS)? (For update via Linux, see http://kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=11&id=105 ) The problem:I have to perform some maintenance on the nodes ...
- Day-to-day Administration: My LDAP server won't start because the database is corrupt. How do I fix it? Answer: My LDAP server won't start because the database is corrupt. How do I fix it? Possible cause OpenLDAP uses a storage format (BerkeleyDB) which is known to ...
- Workload Management: How do I upgrade a Torque package? Answer: Kill all torque jobs. Backup the torque configuration:qmgr -c "p s" > /root/qmgr.backup Disable torque: wlm-setup -w torque -d Update torque and openmpi on head node and in ...
- Software Management: Why has my software suite has vanished from the bunch of nodes I installed it Answer: Most likely you installed the software directly onto those nodes instead of on the "software image". Then, after a reboot of the nodes, whatever you ...
- User Management: How can I extend the default LDAP schema? Answer: Such an extension should only be done if user management is no longer being done by Bright Cluster Manager, but, for example, by an external ...
- Configuring: Why is the Ethernet switch port-based identification not working? Answer: Why is the Ethernet switch port-based identification not working?IntroductionThe steps below will help you troubleshoot why port-based identification on an Ethernet switch might not be ...
- Node Provisioning: How do I set up a root FS over Lustre? Answer: How do I set up a root FS over Lustre? This article describes how to configure a cluster so that the compute nodes mount their root ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform? Answer: How do I install Bright on Xen Cloud Platform? Assuming that you have installed Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.6. XCP can be managed via the CLI or ...
- User Management: How do I enable multi-level kerberos and LDAP authentication in cmgui? Answer: How do I enable both kerberos and LDAP authentication for cmgui? For Red Hat-based system such as RHEL, CentOS or Scientific Linux: Configure The Head Node Configure your ...
- 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 ...
- Software Management: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository? Answer: How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository? or How do I update my cluster from a new Bright ISO that I just downloaded? Outline If ...
- 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 ...
- Installing BCM: How can I mass-produce Bright head node installations using PXE? Answer: An already-installed (or primary) Bright head node can be used to create a head node PXE image. Machines that are booted using PXE, from the ...
- User Management: How can I migrate system users to LDAP? Answer: How can I migrate users and groups from /etc/passwd and /etc/group to Bright's LDAP? The following steps should be done on the head node. 1. Install the ...
- Containers: How can I add Kubernetes to an air-gapped Bright Cluster? Answer: Kubernetes is most easily installed on a cluster that is able to access the internet. Some clusters don’t have Internet access, but it is still ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Installing BCM: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion? Answer: How do I install Bright under VMWare Fusion? You can follow this guide: Create a virtual machine for the head node Install a Bright 7.0 head node Install a ...
- Power Management: Setup up custom power scripts for ProfitBricks Answer: Custom Power Scripts for controlling ProfitBricks Instances Prerequisites To use dynamic scaling of clusters on ProfitBricks’ IaaS platform you have to install a head node in a ...
- 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 ...
- Third Party Software: How do I use ScaleMP on Bright? Answer: How can I run ScaleMP on Bright? This guide describes how to use ScaleMP’s vSMP for Cloud product to create virtual SMP nodes in a cluster. Installing ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Configuring: How do I install the user portal on a login node from 8.0 onward? Answer: How to install the user portal on a login node from 8.0 onward The following procedure describes how to install and serve the user portal on ...
- OpenStack: How do I configure Bright OpenStack 7.2 with Active Directory authentication? Answer: Bright OpenStack 7.2 with AD authentication This Knowledge base article describes the steps needed to successfully configure Bright OpenStack 7.2 to use the Active Directory/LDAP backend. It ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...