Platform LSF Reference Version 6.2
lsfinstall
Platform LSF Reference
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If you do not specify a license file with LSF_LICENSE, or lsfinstall
cannot find a license file in the default location, lsfinstall exits.
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Make sure the installation file system containing LSF_TOP is writable by the
user account that is running
lsfinstall.
Running lsfinstall
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Log on as root to the installation file server.
2
Edit lsf6.2_lsfinstall/install.config or
lsf6.2_lsfinstall/slave.config.
Uncomment the options you want in the template file, and replace the example
values with your own settings.
To enable Platform LSF HPC installation, specifiy ENABLE_HPC_INST=Y in
install.config.
The sample values in the install.config and slave.config template files are
examples only. They are not default installation values.
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Change to lsf6.2_lsfinstall/.
4
Run lsfinstall:
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# ./lsfinstall -f install.config
OR
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# ./lsfinstall -s -f slave.config
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Before using your cluster, read the following:
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lsf6.2_lsfinstall/lsf_getting_started.html to find out how to
set up your LSF hosts, start LSF and test your new cluster.
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lsf6.2_lsfinstall/lsf_quick_admin.html to learn more about
your new cluster.
If you install as a non-root user
You can install as a non-root user with some limitations. During installation,
lsfinstall detects that you are not root. You must choose to configure either a
multi-user cluster or a single-user cluster:
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Single-user— Your user account must be primary LSF administrator. You can start
LSF daemons, but only your user account can submit jobs to the cluster. Your user
account must be able to read the system kernel information, such as
/dev/kmem.
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Multi-user—By default, only root can start the LSF daemons. Any user can submit
jobs to your cluster. To make the cluster available to other users, you must manually
change the ownership and setuid bit for
lsadmin and badmin to root, and the file
permission mode to
-rwsr-xr-x (4755) so that the user ID bit for the owner is
setuid.
Use the following commands to set the correct owner, user ID bit, and file
permission mode for a multi-user cluster:
# chown root lsadmin badmin eauth
# chmod 4755 lsadmin badmin eauth