Installing Standard LSF on HP XC

b. LSF_ADMINS is required and can be set to the same account that was created for
LSF_HPC (the default is lsfadmin). Whatever value is entered, it must be a user
account that exists on all nodes in the XC cluster
c. LSF_CLUSTER_NAME is required, and can be anything that complies with the
naming rules.
d. LSF_ADD_SERVERS is where you specify which nodes you want running LSF. HP
recommends that you specify a filename for this value.
There are other variables that you can configure, but the four specified are the basic
ones necessary to get LSF running on XC. The setting s specified in the example are as
follows:
LSF_TOP="/hptc_cluster/lsf"
LSF_ADMINS="lsfadmin"
LSF_CLUSTER_NAME="xc_cluster"
LSF_ADD_SERVERS=:xc_host_servers
3. The sample cluster contains 4 nodes, thus the xc_host_servers file should contain a line for
each node, as follows:
n16
n15
n14
n13
4. Run the lsfinstall program specifying the install.config file as follows:
root@n16 lsf6.1_lsfinstall]# ./lsfinstall -f install.config
5. Optionally, move the binary and daemon log directories to a node-local location to reduce
network traffic on the shared location. For the example, move the binary directory to
/opt/hptc/lsf/install and the log directory to /var/log/lsf as follows:
[root@n16 lsf6.1_lsfinstall]# mkdir -p /opt/hptc/lsf/install
[root@n16 lsf6.1_lsfinstall]# mkdir -p /var/log/lsf
[root@n16 lsf6.1_lsfinstall]# cd /hptc_cluster/lsf
[root@n16 lsf]# ls
6.1 conf home log work
Note the following concerning the directories:
3. The home directory in /hptc_cluster/lsf is for the lsfadmin account created during
cluster_config when this HP XC system was originally installed. It was not created
during the standard LSF installation.
4. The 6.1 directory, which corresponds to the installed version of LSF, and contains the
binaries and other files that remain static (unchanged) during the operation of LSF. In a
later step, this directory is moved to a node-local location that is subsequently copied to all
the other XC nodes.
5. The conf directory contains the configuration files that may need to be edited during the
normal operation of LSF, so this directory will remain on the shared location.
6. The log directory is where each daemon on every node writes its error and debug
messaging. Since there is the potential for heavy write traffic to this directory, it is moved to
a node-local location. Consequently, you must log into each node to access the daemon
logging that occurs on each node.
7. The work directory is where runtime event and accounting files are written and stored.
This directory remains on the shared location.
6. Move the following directories:
[root@n16 lsf]# mv 6.1/ /opt/hptc/lsf/install/