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• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: What is a product key?
  
  Answer: What is a product key?   A product key is used to unlock a license.   When you get a Bright Cluster Manager DVD, there is a license included ...
  
  
• 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 setup the Torque 2.5 package on Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 cluster?
  
  Answer: By default, Torque 3.x (name of packages: torque and torque-client) is setup on a Bright Cluster Manager 6.0 cluster.   However Torque 2.5.x is sometimes preferred by ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: I've revoked a certificate, how can I remove it?
  
  Answer: You can't.   Certificates that have been issued and/or revoked, cannot be removed with Bright Cluster Manager. This is because even if you would be able to ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I use CUDA MPS with Bright?
  
  Answer: Introduction   CUDA MPS is a feature that allows multiple CUDA processes to share a single GPU context. A CUDA program runs in MPS mode, if the ...
  
  
• 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 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 ...
  
  
• Big Data: How can I patch Apache HBase 1.2.x for the Kerberos TGT renewal issue?
  
  Answer: How can I patch Apache HBase 1.2.x for the Kerberos TGT renewal issue?The Problem HBase stops working after 24 hours. Restarting all HBase services will fix ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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. ...
  
  
• User Management: How do I integrate Bright with multiple AD servers using SSSD capabilities?
  
  Answer: In the Knowledge Base article How do I integrate Bright with AD Using SSSD Capabilities? (http//kb.brightcomputing.com/faq/index.php?action=artikel&id=159), the integration of a single AD server with Bright ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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: ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: How do I install the JSON cmgui ?
  
  Answer:   The standalone JSON cmgui, available in Bright 6.0 and upwards, can run on any regular desktop client machine, including on a MacOS desktop. The software ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Containers: How can I run a cluster-on-demand in Azure from within a Docker container in Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I run a cluster-on-demand in Azure from a docker container running from Bright?   For convenience, running docker from within Bright is described here.   However, it ...
  
  
• Software Management: Can I use Lustre on the Intel Xeon Phi?
  
  Answer: Can I use Lustre on the Intel Xeon  Phi?   Yes. You will need to update the Bright Cluster Manager 7.0 intel-mic-*-<distro> packages to the latest version ...
  
  
• Configuring: Can I re-export a mounted NFS?
  
  Answer: I want to rexport my NFS share. Can I do that?   Short answer No.   Long answer   You can, but it is a really bad idea, so Bright Cluster Manager ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• High Availability: Why are my filesystems no longer exported from my head node after setting up HA?
  
  Answer: Why are my filesystems no longer exported from my head node after setting up HA?   Short answer: It is done by Bright to protect the filesystems ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How can I build Lustre RPMs for the Mellanox OFED?
  
  Answer: You will need to  download the Lustre source RPM from: https://downloads.hpdd.intel.com/public/lustre/lustre-2.9.0/el7/client/ Replace 2.9.0 with the desired version The SRPM can be installed  on a node that is running ...
  
  
• General: What is the impact of the Heartbeat SSL bug on a Bright cluster?
  
  Answer: The Heartbleed bug (CVE-2014-0160) allows anyone to read memory belonging to the server process handling the connection, if they can connect to a server that ...
  
  
• Third Party Software: How do I configure BeeGFS to run on an InfiniBand interface?
  
  Answer: How do I configure BeeGFS to do native IB rather than IP over IB?   Preliminary: BeeGFS Installation By default BeeGFS is not installed on Bright Cluster Manager. Setting ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I install and use ospurge in Bright 7.3 OpenStack?
  
  Answer: How do I install and use ospurge in Bright Cluster Manager 7.3 OpenStack?   Prerequisites: The following packages are needed:   git python34 python34-pip python34-devel You can install them with:  yum install git python34 python34-pip python34-devel   The ospurge software ...
  
  
• General: How do I install OrangeFS?
  
  Answer: These instructions are tested on Bright 7.3 Centos7u3 for the head node and the compute nodes. The head node is the storage server. Install the dependencies. [root@mg-73-centos73-ofs ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I configure Ceph pools as back ends for OpenStack Cinder?
  
  Answer: How do I configure Ceph pools as back ends for OpenStack Cinder?  During the setup of Bright OpenStack, if “Ceph” was selected as the back end ...