Document Outline

• HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.2
• 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 Disk space requirements
    • 2.1.3 Support for non-HP servers
    • 2.1.4 Planning for compute node installation
    • 2.1.5 Firmware upgrade requirements
    • 2.1.6 Configuring the local smart array card
    • 2.1.7 Configuring the management cards
    • 2.1.8 Configuring the BIOS
      • 2.1.8.1 DL3xx, DL5xx, DL7xx, Blades
        • 2.1.8.1.1 OA IP address: Blades only
        • 2.1.8.1.2 Configuring iLO cards from the OA: Blades only
        • 2.1.8.1.3 Disabling server automatic power on: Blades only
      • 2.1.8.2 DL160 G5, DL165c G5, DL165c G6, and DL180 G5 Servers
      • 2.1.8.3 DL160 G6 Servers
      • 2.1.8.4 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 Upgrading to v7.2 important information
    • 2.5.2 Dependencies
      • 2.5.2.1 64-bit versions on management node
      • 2.5.2.2 tftp client
      • 2.5.2.3 Java version dependency
      • 2.5.2.4 Monitoring clients
    • 2.5.3 Stopping the HP Insight CMU service
    • 2.5.4 Upgrading Java Runtime Environment
    • 2.5.5 Removing the previous HP Insight CMU package
    • 2.5.6 Installing the HP Insight CMU v7.2 package
    • 2.5.7 Installing your HP Insight CMU license
    • 2.5.8 Restoring the previous HP Insight CMU configuration
    • 2.5.9 Configuring the updated UP Insight CMU
    • 2.5.10 Starting HP Insight CMU
    • 2.5.11 Deploying the monitoring client
  • 2.6 Saving the HP Insight CMU database
  • 2.7 Restoring the HP Insight CMU database
• 3 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI
  • 3.1 HP Insight CMU GUI
  • 3.2 HP Insight CMU main window
  • 3.3 Administrator mode
  • 3.4 Quitting administrator mode
  • 3.5 Changing X display address
  • 3.6 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI
    • 3.6.1 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI using a web browser
    • 3.6.2 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI from the Java file
    • 3.6.3 Configuring the GUI client on Linux workstations
    • 3.6.4 Launching the HP Insight CMU Time View GUI
• 4 Defining a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 4.1 HP Insight CMU service status
  • 4.2 High-level checklist for building an HP Insight CMU cluster
  • 4.3 Cluster administration
    • 4.3.1 Node management
      • 4.3.1.1 Scanning nodes
      • 4.3.1.2 Adding nodes
      • 4.3.1.3 Modifying nodes
      • 4.3.1.4 Importing nodes
      • 4.3.1.5 Deleting nodes
      • 4.3.1.6 Exporting nodes
      • 4.3.1.7 Contextual menu
    • 4.3.2 Network entity management
      • 4.3.2.1 Adding network entities
      • 4.3.2.2 Deleting network entities
• 5 Provisioning a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 5.1 Logical group management
    • 5.1.1 Modifying logical groups
    • 5.1.2 Deleting logical groups
    • 5.1.3 Renaming logical groups
  • 5.2 Autoinstall
    • 5.2.1 Autoinstall requirements
    • 5.2.2 Autoinstall templates
    • 5.2.3 Autoinstall calling methods
    • 5.2.4 Using autoinstall from GUI
      • 5.2.4.1 Creating an autoinstall logical group
      • 5.2.4.2 Registering compute nodes
      • 5.2.4.3 Autoinstall compute nodes
    • 5.2.5 Using autoinstall from CLI
      • 5.2.5.1 Registering an autoinstall logical group
      • 5.2.5.2 Adding nodes to autoinstall logical group
      • 5.2.5.3 Autoinstall compute nodes
    • 5.2.6 Customization
      • 5.2.6.1 RHEL autoinstall customization for nodes configured with Dynamic Smart Array RAID (B120i, B320i RAID mode)
    • 5.2.7 Restrictions
  • 5.3 Backing up
    • 5.3.1 Backing up a disk from a compute node in a logical group
  • 5.4 Cloning
    • 5.4.1 Preconfiguration
    • 5.4.2 Reconfiguration
    • 5.4.3 Cloning Windows images
  • 5.5 Node static info
  • 5.6 Rescan MAC
  • 5.7 HP Insight CMU image editor
    • 5.7.1 Expanding an image
    • 5.7.2 Modifying an image
    • 5.7.3 Saving a modified cloning image
  • 5.8 HP Insight CMU diskless environments
    • 5.8.1 Overview
      • 5.8.1.1 Enabling diskless support in HP Insight CMU
    • 5.8.2 The system-config-netboot diskless method
      • 5.8.2.1 Operating systems supported
      • 5.8.2.2 Installing the operating system on the management node and the golden node
      • 5.8.2.3 Modifying the TFTP server configuration
      • 5.8.2.4 Populating the HP Insight CMU database
      • 5.8.2.5 Creating a diskless image
      • 5.8.2.6 Creating a diskless logical group
      • 5.8.2.7 Adding nodes into the logical group
      • 5.8.2.8 Booting the compute nodes
      • 5.8.2.9 Understanding the structure of a diskless image
      • 5.8.2.10 Customizing your diskless image
        • 5.8.2.10.1 files.custom
        • 5.8.2.10.2 Using reconf-diskless-image.sh
        • 5.8.2.10.3 Using reconf-diskless-snapshot.sh
        • 5.8.2.10.4 Templates and image file
      • 5.8.2.11 Best practices for diskless clusters
    • 5.8.3 The HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless method
      • 5.8.3.1 Operating systems supported
      • 5.8.3.2 Enabling oneSIS support
      • 5.8.3.3 Preparing the HP Insight CMU management node
      • 5.8.3.4 Preparing the golden node
      • 5.8.3.5 Capturing and customizing a oneSIS diskless image
        • 5.8.3.5.1 Creating an HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless image
        • 5.8.3.5.2 Customizing an HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless image
      • 5.8.3.6 Manage the writeable memory usage by the oneSIS diskless clients
      • 5.8.3.7 Adding nodes and booting the diskless compute nodes
    • 5.8.4 Scaling out an HP Insight CMU diskless solution with multiple NFS servers
      • 5.8.4.1 Comments on High Availability (HA)
• 6 Monitoring a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 6.1 Installing the HP Insight CMU monitoring client
  • 6.2 Deploying the monitoring client
  • 6.3 Monitoring the cluster
    • 6.3.1 Node and group status
    • 6.3.2 Selecting the central frame display
    • 6.3.3 Global cluster view in the central frame
    • 6.3.4 Resource view in the central frame
      • 6.3.4.1 Resource view overview
      • 6.3.4.2 Detail mode in resource view
    • 6.3.5 Gauge widget
    • 6.3.6 Node view in the central frame
    • 6.3.7 Using Time View
      • 6.3.7.1 Tagging nodes
      • 6.3.7.2 Adaptive stacking
      • 6.3.7.3 Bindings and options
        • 6.3.7.3.1 Mouse control
        • 6.3.7.3.2 Keyboard control
        • 6.3.7.3.3 Custom cameras
        • 6.3.7.3.4 Options
      • 6.3.7.4 Technical dependencies
      • 6.3.7.5 Troubleshooting
    • 6.3.8 Archiving user groups
      • 6.3.8.1 Visualizing history data
      • 6.3.8.2 Limitations
  • 6.4 Stopping HP Insight CMU monitoring
  • 6.5 Customizing HP Insight CMU monitoring, alerting, and reactions
    • 6.5.1 Action and alert files
    • 6.5.2 Actions
    • 6.5.3 Alerts
    • 6.5.4 Alert reactions
    • 6.5.5 Modifying the sensors, alerts, and alert reactions monitored by HP Insight CMU
    • 6.5.6 Using collectl for gathering monitoring data
      • 6.5.6.1 Installing and starting collectl on compute nodes
      • 6.5.6.2 Modifying the ActionAndAlerts.txt file
      • 6.5.6.3 Installing and configuring colplot for plotting collectl data
        • 6.5.6.3.1 Plotting data
    • 6.5.7 Monitoring GPUs and coprocessors
      • 6.5.7.1 Monitoring NVIDIA GPUs
      • 6.5.7.2 Monitoring AMD GPUs
      • 6.5.7.3 Monitoring Intel coprocessors
    • 6.5.8 Monitoring HP Insight CMU alerts in HP Systems Insight Manager
    • 6.5.9 Extended metric support
      • 6.5.9.1 Configuring iLO4 AMS extended metric support
        • 6.5.9.1.1 Configuring the HP iLO SNMP port
        • 6.5.9.1.2 Accessing and viewing the HP iLO data via SNMP
        • 6.5.9.1.3 Configuring HP iLO SNMP metrics in HP Insight CMU
• 7 Managing a cluster with HP Insight CMU
  • 7.1 Unprivileged user menu
  • 7.2 Administrator menu
  • 7.3 SSH connection
  • 7.4 Management card connection
  • 7.5 Virtual serial port connection
  • 7.6 Shutdown
  • 7.7 Power off
  • 7.8 Boot
  • 7.9 Reboot
  • 7.10 Change UID LED status
  • 7.11 Multiple windows broadcast
  • 7.12 Single window pdsh
    • 7.12.1 cmudiff examples
  • 7.13 Parallel distributed copy (pdcp)
  • 7.14 User group management
    • 7.14.1 Adding user groups
    • 7.14.2 Deleting user groups
    • 7.14.3 Renaming user groups
  • 7.15 HP Insight firmware management
    • 7.15.1 Viewing and analyzing BIOS settings
    • 7.15.2 Checking BIOS versions
    • 7.15.3 Installing and upgrading firmware
  • 7.16 Customizing the GUI menu
    • 7.16.1 Saving user settings
  • 7.17 HP Insight CMU CLI
    • 7.17.1 Starting a CLI interactive session
    • 7.17.2 Basic commands
    • 7.17.3 Specifying nodes
    • 7.17.4 Administration and cloning commands
    • 7.17.5 Administration utilities pdcp and pdsh
    • 7.17.6 HP Insight CMU Linux shell commands
• 8 Advanced topics
  • 8.1 Accessing the GUI for non-root users
    • 8.1.1 Custom menu options for non-root users
    • 8.1.2 Configuring sudo support
    • 8.1.3 Examples
  • 8.2 HP Insight CMU diskless API
    • 8.2.1 Build diskless image
    • 8.2.2 Delete diskless image
    • 8.2.3 Configure diskless node
    • 8.2.4 Post node configuration
    • 8.2.5 Unconfigure diskless node
    • 8.2.6 Boot diskless node
    • 8.2.7 Diskless check
  • 8.3 HP Insight CMU remote hardware control API
  • 8.4 Customizing kernel arguments for the HP Insight CMU provisioning kernel
    • 8.4.1 PXE-boot configuration file keywords
  • 8.5 Support for ScaleMP
  • 8.6 Cloning mechanisms
  • 8.7 Support for Intel Xeon Phi cards
    • 8.7.1 Intel Xeon Phi card IP address and host name assignment algorithm
    • 8.7.2 Cloning an image with Intel Xeon Phi cards configured with independent IP addresses
    • 8.7.3 HP Insight CMU oneSIS diskless file system support for independent addressing of Intel Xeon Phi cards
• 9 Support and other resources
  • 9.1 Contacting HP
    • 9.1.1 Before you contact HP
    • 9.1.2 HP contact information
    • 9.1.3 Subscription service
    • 9.1.4 Documentation feedback
  • 9.2 Related information
  • 9.3 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
• HP Insight CMU manpages
  • cmu_boot(8)
  • 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_groups(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)
  • cmu_monitoring_dump(8)
  • cmu_rename_archived_user_group(8)
• Glossary
• Index