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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 ...
  
  

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