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• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: Why does cmgui only work with Firefox upto version 56.x.x?
  
  Answer: For Bright 7.3 and earlier versions, cmgui will not work with Firefox versions higher than 56.x.x -- why?   Starting from Firefox 57, only extensions developed using ...
  
  
• Configuring: My stacked switches port designation format doesn't match cmsh/cmgui. What now?
  
  Answer: My stacked switches port designation format doesn't match cmsh/cmgui. How do I record which ports are uplinks?You may have uplink ports that are designated as ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: CMDaemon won't restart my service like it is supposed to. But I can start the
  
  Answer: Normally CMDaemon restarts a service that fails.   However, one of the possibilities is that CMD has given up due to persistent failure. In the Administrator Manual, ...
  
  
• Software Management: Why do mails flood in after updating my software image?
  
  Answer: Short answer Because there is probably some mail generated in the mail spool in the software image.   When, and on which versions does it happen?   This issue occurs ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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: 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• User Management: How do I change the OU in LDAP?
  
  Answer: How do I change the OU in LDAP for Bright?   This is two step process: 1. Make LDAP use an HDB database instead of an BDB database. 2. ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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* ...
  
  
• Node Provisioning: My regular nodes aren't booting up after an update, why? What now?
  
  Answer: Some updates in the software image require recreating the initrd. Bright Cluster Manager is not aware of such updates. As result,  when regular nodes are rebooted, ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: When does a node need to be restarted?
  
  Answer: When does a node need to be restarted? Why does a node need to be restarted? Can I ignore it? How do I clear that ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Initialize And Finalize Scripts: How do I write information out to a hard drive during pre-provisioning?
  
  Answer:   How do I write information out to a hard drive during pre-provisioning?   With a finalize script you write to somewhere under localdrive, which is the root ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Power Management: How do I use Raritan PDUs with the Bright Cluster Manager?
  
  Answer: How do I use Raritan PDUs with the Bright Cluster Manager?   The Bright Cluster Manager, which is mainly tested on APC units, can also provide status ...