Notice of Knowledge Base Relocation Our Knowledge Base has been relocated to the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal. This update is part of our ongoing effort to improve access to information, streamline navigation, and provide a more consistent support experience. This article has been relocated to the following URL: https://enterprise-support.nvidia.com/s/article/alter-cm-nfs-checker-listening-port Please…
This article will describe additional validation tests that can be completed on a HA cluster to confirm proper operation. This article should be seen as a supplement to the documentation in the Administration Manual. Presumptions For this article, we are presuming that you have a HA cluster setup with an…
Notice of Knowledge Base Relocation Our Knowledge Base has been relocated to the NVIDIA Enterprise Support Portal. This update is part of our ongoing effort to improve access to information, streamline navigation, and provide a more consistent support experience. This article has been relocated to the following URL: https://enterprise-support.nvidia.com/s/article/adding-a-job-queue-or-altering-node-settings-for-a-subset-of-nodes-in-slurm Please…
This article will go over the steps needed to upgrade the Bright provided SLURM packages to a newer major version as well as the caveats and warnings necessary for a successful migration. These instructions have been tested on Bright versions 9.0, 9.1, 9.2, and BCM10. These instructions will retain all…
Bright Cluster Manager provides a managed LDAP database for user and group management but, by default, it is protected with TLS certificates which limit the ability for some third party tools to access the directory. This article will go through the steps to reconfigure the Bright LDAP server to allow…
Sometimes it’s useful to be able to run basic commands against cmsh in an automated way. We often take the tool for granted but there are a number of subtle tricks that can go a long way to making the use of the command more resilient. While this can be…
If you are using firefox and failing to reach services like BrightView or the user portal with an error of “Secure Connection Failed” with an error code similar to one of the following. NOTE: This issue likely applies to other browsers as well since they have client certificate functions. We…
Sometimes the administrator may wish to migrate users from one cluster to another (e.g. when setting up a new cluster from scratch). Backup Since BCM’s LDAP uses standard Linux openldap, slapcat can be used to export the data from the old head node, with something like: /cm/local/apps/openldap/sbin/slapcat -f /cm/local/apps/openldap/etc/slapd.conf -l backup.ldif You…