HP Insight Cluster Management Utility User Manual
Hp insight cluster management utility v7.1, User guide
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HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1
User Guide
Abstract
This guide describes how to install, configure, and use HP Insight Cluster Management Utility (CMU) v7.1 on HP systems. HP
Insight CMU is software dedicated to the administration of HPC and large Linux clusters. This guide is intended primarily for
administrators who install and manage a large collection of systems. This document assumes you have access to the documentation
that comes with the hardware platform where the HP Insight CMU cluster will be installed, and you are familiar with installing
and administering Linux operating systems.
HP Part Number: 5900-2346
Published: April 2013
Edition: 1
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Table of contents
Document Outline
- HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1
- Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Installing and upgrading HP Insight CMU
- 2.1 Installing HP Insight CMU
- 2.1.1 Management node hardware requirements
- 2.1.2 Planning for compute node installation
- 2.1.3 Disk space requirements
- 2.1.4 Firmware upgrade requirements
- 2.1.5 Configuring the local smart array card
- 2.1.6 Configuring the management cards
- 2.1.7 Configuring the BIOS
- 2.2 Preparing for installation
- 2.3 Installation procedures
- 2.4 Installing HP Insight CMU with high availability
- 2.5 Upgrading HP Insight CMU
- 2.5.1 Dependencies
- 2.5.2 Stopping the HP Insight CMU service
- 2.5.3 Upgrading Java Runtime Environment
- 2.5.4 Removing the previous HP Insight CMU package
- 2.5.5 Installing the HP Insight CMU v7.1 package
- 2.5.6 Restoring the HP Insight CMU configuration
- 2.5.7 Starting HP Insight CMU
- 2.5.8 Deploying the monitoring client
- 2.5.9 Deploying cmugui.jar to clients
- 2.6 Saving the HP Insight CMU database
- 2.7 Restoring the HP Insight CMU database
- 2.1 Installing HP Insight CMU
- 3 Defining a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 4 Provisioning a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 4.1 Logical group management
- 4.2 Autoinstall
- 4.3 Backing up
- 4.4 Cloning
- 4.5 Node static info
- 4.6 Rescan MAC
- 4.7 HP Insight CMU image editor
- 4.8 HP Insight CMU diskless environments
- 4.8.1 Overview
- 4.8.2 Operating systems supported
- 4.8.3 Installing the operating system on the management node and the golden node
- 4.8.4 Modifying the TFTP server configuration
- 4.8.5 Activating the diskless feature
- 4.8.6 Populating the HP Insight CMU database
- 4.8.7 Creating a diskless image
- 4.8.8 Creating a diskless logical group
- 4.8.9 Adding nodes into the logical group
- 4.8.10 Booting the compute nodes
- 4.8.11 Understanding the structure of a diskless image
- 4.8.12 Customizing your diskless image
- 4.8.13 Best practices for diskless clusters
- 4.8.14 Configuring additional NFS servers
- 4.8.15 Comments on High Availability (HA)
- 5 Monitoring a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 5.1 Installing the HP Insight CMU monitoring client
- 5.2 Deploying the monitoring client
- 5.3 Monitoring the cluster
- 5.4 Stopping HP Insight CMU monitoring
- 5.5 Tuning HP Insight CMU monitoring
- 5.5.1 Action and alert files
- 5.5.2 Actions
- 5.5.3 Alerts
- 5.5.4 Alert reactions
- 5.5.5 Modifying the sensors, alerts, and alert reactions monitored by HP Insight CMU
- 5.5.6 Using collectl for gathering monitoring data
- 5.5.7 Monitoring GPUs and coprocessors
- 5.5.8 Monitoring HP Insight CMU alerts in HP Systems Insight Manager
- 5.5.9 Extended metric support
- 6 Managing a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 6.1 Unprivileged user menu
- 6.2 Administrator menu
- 6.3 SSH connection
- 6.4 Management card connection
- 6.5 Virtual serial port connection
- 6.6 Shutdown
- 6.7 Power off
- 6.8 Boot
- 6.9 Reboot
- 6.10 Change UID LED status
- 6.11 Multiple windows broadcast
- 6.12 Single window pdsh
- 6.13 Parallel distributed copy (pdcp)
- 6.14 User group management
- 6.15 HP Insight firmware management
- 6.16 Customizing the GUI menu
- 6.17 HP Insight CMU CLI
- 7 Advanced topics
- 8 Support and other resources
- A Troubleshooting
- B Detailed installation instructions
- B.1 Install required RPMs
- B.2 Activating xinetd services
- B.3 Activating the Network File System (NFS) daemon
- B.4 Verifying the DHCPD listen interface
- B.5 Firewall configuration
- B.6 Java installation
- B.7 Installing HP Insight CMU
- B.8 Installing HP Insight CMU licensing
- B.9 Setting the Java PATH
- B.10 Configuring the HP Insight CMU management server hostname
- B.11 Starting HP Insight CMU
- B.12 Configuring HP Insight CMU to start automatically
- B.13 Verifying the HP Insight CMU state
- B.14 Installing HP Insight CMU on the GUI client workstation
- HP Insight CMU manpages
- cmu_show_nodes(8)
- cmu_show_logical_groups(8)
- cmu_show_network_entities(8)
- cmu_show_user_groups(8)
- cmu_show_archived_user_groups(8)
- cmu_add_node(8)
- cmu_add_network_entity(8)
- cmu_add_logical_group(8)
- cmu_add_to_logical_group_candidates(8)
- cmu_add_user_group(8)
- cmu_add_to_user_group(8)
- cmu_change_active_logical_group(8)
- cmu_change_network_entity(8)
- cmu_del_from_logical_group_candidates(8)
- cmu_del_from_network_entity(8)
- cmu_del_archived_user_group(8)
- cmu_del_from_user_group(8)
- cmu_del_logical_group(8)
- cmu_del_network_entity(8)
- cmu_del_node(8)
- cmu_del_snapshots(8)
- cmu_del_user_group(8)
- cmu_console(8)
- cmu_power(8)
- cmu_custom_run(8)
- cmu_clone(8)
- cmu_backup(8)
- cmu_scan_macs(8)
- cmu_rescan_mac(8)
- cmu_mod_node(8)
- cmu_monstat(8)
- cmu_image_open(8)
- cmu_image_commit(8)
- cmu_config_nvidia(8)
- cmu_config_amd(8)
- cmu_config_intel(8)
- cmu_mgt_config(8)
- cmu_firmware_mgmt(8)
- Glossary
- Index