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• HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1
• Contents
• 1 Overview
  • 1.1 Features
    • 1.1.1 Compute node monitoring
    • 1.1.2 HP Insight CMU configuration
    • 1.1.3 Compute node administration
    • 1.1.4 System disk replication
• 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
      • 2.1.7.1 DL3xx, DL5xx, DL7xx, Blades
        • 2.1.7.1.1 OA IP address: Blades only
        • 2.1.7.1.2 Configuring iLO cards from the OA: Blades only
        • 2.1.7.1.3 Disabling server automatic power on: Blades only
      • 2.1.7.2 DL160 G5, DL165c G5, DL165c G6, and DL180 G5 Servers
      • 2.1.7.3 DL160 G6 Servers
      • 2.1.7.4 SL2x170z G6 and DL170h G6 Servers BIOS setting
  • 2.2 Preparing for installation
    • 2.2.1 HP Insight CMU kit delivery
    • 2.2.2 Preinstallation limitations
    • 2.2.3 Operating system support
      • 2.2.3.1 RHEL 6 support
    • 2.2.4 HP Insight CMU CD-ROM directory structure
    • 2.2.5 HP Insight CMU installation checklist
    • 2.2.6 Login privileges
    • 2.2.7 SELinux and HP Insight CMU
  • 2.3 Installation procedures
  • 2.4 Installing HP Insight CMU with high availability
    • 2.4.1 HA hardware requirements
    • 2.4.2 Software prerequisites
    • 2.4.3 Installing HP Insight CMU under HA
      • 2.4.3.1 Overview
      • 2.4.3.2 HP Insight CMU HA service requirements
      • 2.4.3.3 Installing and testing
    • 2.4.4 Configuring HA control of HP Insight CMU
    • 2.4.5 HP Insight CMU configuration considerations
    • 2.4.6 Upgrading HP Insight CMU HA service
  • 2.5 Upgrading HP Insight CMU
    • 2.5.1 Dependencies
      • 2.5.1.1 64-bit versions on management node
      • 2.5.1.2 tftp client
      • 2.5.1.3 Java version dependency
      • 2.5.1.4 Monitoring clients
    • 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
• 3 Defining a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 3.1 HP Insight CMU service status
  • 3.2 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI
    • 3.2.1 HP Insight CMU main window
    • 3.2.2 X server requirements
    • 3.2.3 Administrator mode
    • 3.2.4 Quitting administrator mode
    • 3.2.5 Changing X display address
  • 3.3 High-level checklist for building an HP Insight CMU cluster
  • 3.4 Cluster administration
    • 3.4.1 Node management
      • 3.4.1.1 Scanning nodes
      • 3.4.1.2 Adding nodes
      • 3.4.1.3 Modifying nodes
      • 3.4.1.4 Importing nodes
      • 3.4.1.5 Deleting nodes
      • 3.4.1.6 Exporting nodes
      • 3.4.1.7 Contextual menu
    • 3.4.2 Network entity management
      • 3.4.2.1 Adding network entities
      • 3.4.2.2 Deleting network entities
• 4 Provisioning a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 4.1 Logical group management
    • 4.1.1 Modifying logical groups
    • 4.1.2 Deleting logical groups
    • 4.1.3 Renaming logical groups
  • 4.2 Autoinstall
    • 4.2.1 Autoinstall requirements
    • 4.2.2 Autoinstall templates
    • 4.2.3 Autoinstall calling methods
    • 4.2.4 Using autoinstall from GUI
      • 4.2.4.1 Enabling autoinstall
      • 4.2.4.2 Creating an autoinstall logical group
      • 4.2.4.3 Registering compute nodes
      • 4.2.4.4 Autoinstall compute nodes
    • 4.2.5 Using autoinstall from CLI
      • 4.2.5.1 Registering an autoinstall logical group
      • 4.2.5.2 Adding nodes to autoinstall logical group
      • 4.2.5.3 Autoinstall compute nodes
    • 4.2.6 Customization
    • 4.2.7 Restrictions
  • 4.3 Backing up
    • 4.3.1 Backing up a disk from a compute node in a logical group
  • 4.4 Cloning
    • 4.4.1 Preconfiguration
    • 4.4.2 Reconfiguration
  • 4.5 Node static info
  • 4.6 Rescan MAC
  • 4.7 HP Insight CMU image editor
    • 4.7.1 Expanding an image
    • 4.7.2 Modifying an image
    • 4.7.3 Saving a modified cloning image
  • 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
      • 4.8.12.1 files.custom
      • 4.8.12.2 Using reconf-diskless-image.sh
      • 4.8.12.3 Using reconf-diskless-snapshot.sh
      • 4.8.12.4 Templates and image file
    • 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
    • 5.3.1 Node and group status
    • 5.3.2 Selecting the central frame display
    • 5.3.3 Global cluster view in the central frame
    • 5.3.4 Resource view in the central frame
      • 5.3.4.1 Resource view overview
      • 5.3.4.2 Detail mode in resource view
    • 5.3.5 Gauge widget
    • 5.3.6 Node view in the central frame
    • 5.3.7 Using time view
      • 5.3.7.1 Getting started
      • 5.3.7.2 Tagging nodes
      • 5.3.7.3 Adaptive stacking
      • 5.3.7.4 Bindings and options
        • 5.3.7.4.1 Mouse control
        • 5.3.7.4.2 Keyboard control
        • 5.3.7.4.3 Custom cameras
        • 5.3.7.4.4 Options
      • 5.3.7.5 Technical dependencies
      • 5.3.7.6 Troubleshooting
    • 5.3.8 Archiving user groups
      • 5.3.8.1 Visualizing history data
      • 5.3.8.2 Limitations
  • 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
      • 5.5.6.1 Installing and starting collectl on compute nodes
      • 5.5.6.2 Modifying the ActionAndAlerts.txt file
      • 5.5.6.3 Installing and configuring colplot for plotting collectl data
        • 5.5.6.3.1 Plotting data
    • 5.5.7 Monitoring GPUs and coprocessors
      • 5.5.7.1 Monitoring NVIDIA GPUs
      • 5.5.7.2 Monitoring AMD GPUs
      • 5.5.7.3 Monitoring Intel 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
    • 6.12.1 cmudiff examples
  • 6.13 Parallel distributed copy (pdcp)
  • 6.14 User group management
    • 6.14.1 Adding user groups
    • 6.14.2 Deleting user groups
    • 6.14.3 Renaming user groups
  • 6.15 HP Insight firmware management
    • 6.15.1 Viewing and analyzing BIOS settings
    • 6.15.2 Checking BIOS versions
    • 6.15.3 Installing and upgrading firmware
  • 6.16 Customizing the GUI menu
    • 6.16.1 Saving user settings
  • 6.17 HP Insight CMU CLI
    • 6.17.1 Starting a CLI interactive session
    • 6.17.2 Basic commands
    • 6.17.3 Specifying nodes
    • 6.17.4 Administration and cloning commands
    • 6.17.5 Administration utilities pdcp and pdsh
    • 6.17.6 HP Insight CMU Linux shell commands
• 7 Advanced topics
  • 7.1 Accessing the GUI for non-root users
    • 7.1.1 Custom menu options for non-root users
    • 7.1.2 Configuring sudo support
    • 7.1.3 Examples
  • 7.2 HP Insight CMU diskless API
    • 7.2.1 Build diskless image
    • 7.2.2 Delete diskless image
    • 7.2.3 Configure diskless node
    • 7.2.4 Unconfigure diskless node
    • 7.2.5 Boot diskless node
    • 7.2.6 Diskless check
  • 7.3 HP Insight CMU remote hardware control API
  • 7.4 Customizing kernel arguments for the HP Insight CMU provisioning kernel
  • 7.5 Support for ScaleMP
  • 7.6 Cloning mechanisms
• 8 Support and other resources
  • 8.1 Contacting HP
    • 8.1.1 Before you contact HP
    • 8.1.2 HP contact information
    • 8.1.3 Subscription service
    • 8.1.4 Documentation feedback
  • 8.2 Related information
  • 8.3 Typographic conventions
• A Troubleshooting
  • A.1 HP Insight CMU logs
    • A.1.1 cmuserver log files
    • A.1.2 Cloning log files
    • A.1.3 Backup log files
    • A.1.4 Monitoring log files
  • A.2 Network boot issues
    • A.2.1 Troubleshooting network boot
  • A.3 Backup issues
  • A.4 Cloning issues
  • A.5 Administration command problems
  • A.6 GUI problems
• 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
    • B.14.1 Configuring the GUI client on Linux workstations
    • B.14.2 Activating the HP Insight CMU GUI
• 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