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• Third Party Software: How do I replace ntpd for chrony on a Bright Cluster?
  
  Answer: The following procedure was tested on Bright 8.2 on CentOS 7.   WARNING: Please note that an update of certain Bright packages can remove some of 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 ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I authenticate against a NIS server?
  
  Answer: See Robert Stober's howto for now. A validated guide will be here later. ...
  
  
• 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 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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* ...
  
  
• 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 configure Bright to authenticate against an external NIS server?
  
  Answer: How do I configure Bright to authenticate against an external NIS server?   The examples in this article assume:   A Type 1 network. A Type 1 network is ...
  
  
• Installing BCM: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)?
  
  Answer: How do I run Bright under MS Windows Server Hyper-V (Windows Server 2008/R2)? This article walks you through an install of Bright under Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I integrate OpenStack Designate with my Bright 8.1 cluster and BIND DNS server?
  
  Answer: Initial Bright Configuration (on the head node)1. Create Bright OpenStack designate user.# cmsh% openstack% users% add designate% set password <chosen_password>% commit2. Assign necessary role to ...
  
  
• Workload Management: How do I run an external Torque server with Bright?
  
  Answer: How do I setup a Bright cluster to use an external Torque server? Enable torque using the wlm-setup utility: [root@ma-b71-c6 ~]# wlm-setup -s -w torque                Disabling ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Cluster Management: How can I move /cm/shared to a dedicated NFS server?
  
  Answer: How can I move /cm/shared to a dedicated, off-cluster, NFS server?   The explanations on how to configure NFS are in the Bright Cluster Administrator Manual.   But here's ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Software Management: Managing software images with Ansible
  
  Answer: Managing software images with Ansible provides a number of advantages when it comes to automation and revision management. Coupling Ansible with a version control system ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I mount storage from a file server?
  
  Answer: See the section on Configuring NFS Volume Exports And Mounts in the Bright Administrator manual. ...
  
  
• User Management: How do I authenticate against an external LDAP server?
  
  Answer: See the section on configuring LDAP in the user management section of the Administrator Manual. ...
  
  
• User Management: How do I authenticate against Active Directory Using SAMBA/WINBIND?
  
  Answer:   How do I authenticate against Active Directory (AD) ?   There are a lot of ways to do this.  How Do I Integrate Bright With Active Directory ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Support And Documentation: Where can I find documentation?
  
  Answer: 1. http://support.brightcomputing.com/manuals is where the main documentation for Bright Cluster Manager is at, in the form of manuals.   Manuals for Bright Cluster Manager up to version ...
  
  
• 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, ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• Configuring: How do I make regular nodes return an FQDN using 'hostname -f'? Or resolve the
  
  Answer: How do I make regular nodes return an FQDN using 'hostname -f'? Or resolve the hostnames to IPs on the external network?   There are two ways ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• General: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3?
  
  Answer: How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? With the following recipe: Contents 1 How do I upgrade Bright from SLES11sp2 to SLES11sp3? 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Upgrading a software ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• OpenStack: How do I set up Cluster as a Service (CaaS) on Bright OpenStack 7.1?
  
  Answer: Cluster as a Service on Bright OpenStack 7.1 [The following notes explain setting up a clusters as a service in Bright Cluster Manager. This means that ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  
• 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 ...
  
  

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