Why has my software suite vanished from the bunch of nodes I installed it on? How do I fix it? Most likely you installed the software directly onto those nodes instead of on the “software image”. Then, after a reboot...
How do I downgrade the software image back to a previous distribution version? Example: Reinstalling an initial base image Sometimes the administrator may want to downgrade the software image to a previous version...
How do I enable a graphical (X11) login after installation? After the Bright head node installation for SLES, the Graphical console option is disabled. This is because it requires a...
Managing software images with Puppet Managing software images with puppet provides a number of advantages when it comes to automation and revision management. Coupling puppet...
Installing bacula installs pbspro, which I don’t want. What should I do? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
Why do I have CUPS on my cluster? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
Why doesn’t Bright have a newer version of X? This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may...
How do I add a Bright ISO as a YUM repository? or How do I update my cluster from a new Bright ISO that I just downloaded? This article is being...
Installing and using GNOME windows manager with Jupyter and VNC It it possible to use Gnome WM with Jupyter and VNC integration. Then it is required to reboot or re-sync...
Managing software images as Ansible inventory hosts Managing software images with Ansible is sometimes tricky as software images live inside their own chroot directory. To make managing...
Preventing NetworkManager from Overwriting /etc/resolv.conf on RHEL Compute Nodes With RHEL/Rocky Linux 8 and later releases that are being used by software images for compute nodes, you may find...