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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 ...
- Workload Management: How do I integrate Univa Grid Engine with Bright Cluster Manager? Answer: How do I integrate Univa Grid Engine with Bright Cluster Manager? For updated versions of Bright Cluster Manager version 7 and beyond, UGE is integrated with ...
- 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 ...
- 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* ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- General: Why is rsh not working? Answer: Why does RSH not work? Symptoms - rsh <hostname> <command> results in poll: protocol failure in circuit setup - /var/log/messages contains in.rshd message like “Could not allocate space ...
- Workload Management: Stale files from MPI jobs filled /dev/shm, what now? Answer: Stale files from MPI jobs filled /dev/shm, what now?Sometimes when compute nodes stay up for long periods of time, /dev/shm gets filled with stale files. ...
- 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 ...
- Installing BCM: How do I do a remote installation? Answer: How do I do a bare-metal remote installation? Why do it? The default bare-metal installation is pretty much a no-brainer, so a bare-metal remote installation isn't that ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 run NFSv4 with Bright? Answer: How can I use NFS version 4 with Bright? By configuring it as shown in the example later on. But first, some background. Why have NFSv3 as ...
- Workload Management: How can UGE use PostrgreSQL for the spooling Database? Answer: How can UGE use PostrgreSQL for the spooling Database? For clusters running UGE, its plain text spool is rarely a performance bottleneck. For busy enough clusters the ...
- 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 ...
- General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.0 ? Answer: How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 to Bright 8.0? The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or ...
- General: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2? Answer: How do I upgrade to Bright 8.2? Upgrades to Bright 8.2 are now supported for the following Linux distributions and Bright versions. Supported Linux distributions and Bright ...