HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.2 User Guide
Table Of Contents
- HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.2
- 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 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
- 2.2 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 Upgrading to v7.2 important information
- 2.5.2 Dependencies
- 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
- 2.1 Installing HP Insight CMU
- 3 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI
- 4 Defining a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 5 Provisioning a cluster with HP Insight CMU
- 5.1 Logical group management
- 5.2 Autoinstall
- 5.3 Backing up
- 5.4 Cloning
- 5.5 Node static info
- 5.6 Rescan MAC
- 5.7 HP Insight CMU image editor
- 5.8 HP Insight CMU diskless environments
- 5.8.1 Overview
- 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
- 5.8.2.11 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
- 5.8.3.6 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
- 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
- 6.4 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
- 6.5.7 Monitoring GPUs and coprocessors
- 6.5.8 Monitoring HP Insight CMU alerts in HP Systems Insight Manager
- 6.5.9 Extended metric support
- 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
- 7.13 Parallel distributed copy (pdcp)
- 7.14 User group management
- 7.15 HP Insight firmware management
- 7.16 Customizing the GUI menu
- 7.17 HP Insight CMU CLI
- 8 Advanced topics
- 9 Support and other resources
- A Troubleshooting
- 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
[16:15:13] OSTYPE:Linux-CMU
[16:15:13] [DollyClient] Starting to get fstab files
[16:15:13] [DollyClient] Getting "/opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt"
[16:15:14] [DollyClient] fstab of /dev/sda1 received and stored into /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt
[16:15:14] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/grep "LABEL" /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt | /usr/bin/wc -l
>/opt/cmu/tmp/number_of_label
[16:15:14] [DollyClient] No label in /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt fstab file
[16:15:14] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/rm -rf /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/fstab-label.txt
[16:15:14] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/cp /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/fstab-device.txt
[16:15:14] Dolly Terminated...Starting backup process
[16:15:17] [Dolly] Add partition "sda1"
[16:15:17] [Dolly] Add partition "sda5"
[16:15:17] [Dolly] Add partition "sda9"
[16:15:17] [Dolly] Running OS : "Linux/2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-bigsmp"
[16:15:17] OSTYPE:Linux-CMU
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] This is not SLES9 or above. No specific work to do
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Starting to get image
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Asking for main devices list
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Device is sda
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Device is sda
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Asking for partition table of "/dev/sda"
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Getting /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/parttbl-sda.txt
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Getting /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/parttbl-sda.raw
[16:15:17] [DollyClient] Getting /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/partarchi-sda1.tgz (1/3)
[16:15:27] [DollyClient] Getting /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/partarchi-sda5.tgz (2/3)
[16:15:49] [DollyClient] Getting /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/partarchi-sda9.tgz (3/3)
[16:15:49] [DollyClient] Image test_julien received
[16:15:49] Dolly Terminated...
[INFO] CMU does not seem to be runningbackup successThe golden image node will be rebooted in 30 seconds
/opt/cmu/tmp/GUI/config.txt was rewritten
cmu>
where:
test_julien
is the name of the logical group containing the node being backed up.
sda1,sda5,sda9
are the partitions on the hard drive.
o185i195
is the node name.
The following example is an interactive backup.
cmu> backup
image name? > test_julien
partition list(root,part_1,part_2,...)? > sda1,sda5,sda6,sda8,sda9
node name? > o185i195
node list found in backup group test_julien: o185i195
[INFO] CMU does not seem to be running
Copying the ssh settings
/opt/cmu/tmp/GUI/config.txt was rewritten
--
Booting the Node over the network
Waiting for node o185i195 to boot
Save /opt/cmu/log/cmudolly.log file
tail -f /opt/cmu/log/cmudolly.log
Starting retrieving fstab
[16:25:03] [Dolly] Running OS : "Linux/2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-bigsmp"
[16:25:03] OSTYPE:Linux-CMU
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] Starting to get fstab files
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] Getting "/opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt"
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] fstab of /dev/sda1 received and stored into /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/grep "LABEL" /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt | /usr/bin/wc -l
>/opt/cmu/tmp/number_of_label
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] No label in /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt fstab file
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/rm -rf /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/fstab-label.txt
[16:25:03] [DollyClient] Executing: /bin/cp /opt/cmu/tmp/fstab.txt /opt/cmu/image/test_julien/fstab-device.txt
[16:25:03] Dolly Terminated...
Starting backup process
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Add partition "sda1"
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Add partition "sda5"
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Add partition "sda6"
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Add partition "sda8"
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Add partition "sda9"
[16:25:06] [Dolly] Running OS : "Linux/2.6.16-rc6-git1-4-bigsmp"
[16:25:06] OSTYPE:Linux-CMU
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] This is not SLES9 or above. No specific work to do
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] Starting to get image
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] Asking for main devices list
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] Device is sda
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] Device is sda
[16:25:06] [DollyClient] Device is sda
136 Managing a cluster with HP Insight CMU