Chris,
Thank you so much! This will be very helpful!
--imam toufique
UCI
On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Christopher Samuel <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On 15/09/17 15:16, Imam Toufique wrote:
>
> > Any documentation or notes on how you have set it up? we are
> > considering setting it up, any tips or documentation would be very
> > helpful. xcat documentation is very extensive and broad, so I was
> > looking for some concise guide(s).
>
> Unfortunately nothing public I'm afraid!
>
> Here's a very quick summary of our wiki page from installing our last
> cluster.
>
> 1. Install from repo
>
> 2. Configure site table, we changed dhcpinterfaces, domain, nameservers
> (we use external ones), added ntpservers & changed sshbetweennodes to
> NOGROUPS (for local security policy).
>
> 3. Configure networks table
>
> 4. Configure routes table (may not be necessary for you)
>
> 5. Configure password table
>
> 6. Configure postscripts table
>
> 7. Switch discovery via "switchdiscover -s lldp" (we needed to install
> lldpd from xcat-dep for that). We also needed to use the namap to
> discover a not-directly connected switch (as well as needing to update
> the table to tell it to use SNMPv1 for the switches).
>
> 8. Configure /etc/exports for extras if using statelite.
>
> 9. Define/Discover FPC's (as this was a Lenovo blade system).
>
> 10. Define/Discover compute nodes (we do an awful lot via groups)
>
> 11. Define/Discover login nodes (again, groups are your friend)
>
> 12. Configure & create osimages for your nodes.
>
> 13. Set the groups to use the right osimage & then nodeset the groups
>
> 14. Boot the nodes.
>
> 15. Profit!
>
> How's that?
>
> cheers,
> Chris
> --
> Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator
> Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne
> Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545
>
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