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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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