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Table 1 Directory structure (continued)

Contents

Subdirectory

Useful tools that can be used in conjunction with HP Insight CMU

Tools

Documentation and release notes

Documentation

Contains the following licenses: Apache_LICENSE-2_0.txt, gluegen_LICENSE.txt,
jogl_LICENSE.txt. Also contains system-config-netboot-legalnotice.html

Licenses

2.2.5 HP Insight CMU installation checklist

The following list summarizes the steps needed to install HP Insight CMU on your HPC cluster:

Preparing the management node:

1.

For hardware requirements, see

“Management node hardware requirements” (page 13)

.

2.

Perform a full installation of your base OS on your management node.

3.

Install required rpm files. For details, see

“Installation procedures” (page 22)

4.

Install Oracle Java version 1.6u33 or later.

5.

Install HP Insight CMU rpm.

6.

Install HP Insight CMU license.

7.

Configure HP Insight CMU.

8.

Start HP Insight CMU.

9.

Configure HP Insight CMU to start automatically.

Preparing the compute nodes:

For instructions on how to prepare the compute nodes for installation, see

“Planning for compute

node installation” (page 14)

Preparing the GUI client workstation:

1.

Install Java Runtime Environment version 1.6u33 or later.

2.

Install cmugui.jar (optional).

3.

Configure X Window server. (Optional)

2.2.6 Login privileges

To install HP Insight CMU, you must be logged in as root and have administrator privileges on the
installation node. If relevant for the cluster, you must know the password of the management cards
on the compute nodes.

2.2.7 SELinux and HP Insight CMU

HP recommends disabling SELinux on the management node and the compute node creating the
image. To disable SELinux in RHEL versions, set SELINUX=disabled in the /etc/sysconfig/
selinux

file and restart the node. If you must use SELinux with HP Insight CMU, please contact

support.

2.3 Installation procedures

IMPORTANT:

All steps in this section must be performed on the node designated as your HP

Insight CMU management node.

1.

Install a base operating system on your HP Insight CMU management node and perform any
configuration steps that are necessary for the node to work within your local environment (e.g.
configure DNS, set up ntp time synchronization, etc). For details on which operating systems

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Installing and upgrading HP Insight CMU

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