• How to Deploy Spark without Kubernetes on Bright 9.0 and 9.1 with CentOS8

    Deploy Spark using CMDaemon This example will deploy the spark master on the Head Node. All the workers will be deployed in the default category. Install the package Execute on the Head Node, below example is for RHEL8: Note: these instructions deploy Spark to /cm/shared. Scripts contained in the bare-metal-spark…

  • How do I upgrade to Bright 7.3?

    How do I upgrade from Bright 6.0/6.1/7.0/7.1/7.2 to Bright 7.3? The procedure below can be used to upgrade a Bright 6.0 or 6.1 or 7.0 or 7.1 or 7.2 installation, including those with failover, to Bright 7.3 Supported Linux distributions An upgrade to Bright 7.3 is supported for Bright 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1 or 7.2 clusters that are running…

  • Why does cmgui only work with Firefox upto version 56.x.x?

    For Bright 7.3 and earlier versions, cmgui will not work with Firefox versions higher than 56.x.x — why? Starting from Firefox 57, only extensions developed using WebExtensions APIs will be supported on Desktop Firefox and Firefox for Android. As a result, Bright cmgui can only function properly on Firefox before version 57….

  • How do I set up cloudbursting without OpenVPN?

    This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may not match the output from the most recent versions of Bright. This notation will be removed when the content has been updated. This article covers Bright Versions from before v7.3. For…

  • How can I integrate Bright OpenStack 7.1 Keystone with LDAP/AD?

    This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may not match the output from the most recent versions of Bright. This notation will be removed when the content has been updated. Here it is assumed that OpenStack was set up…

  • How can I change the password policy of LDAP?

    This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may not match the output from the most recent versions of Bright. This notation will be removed when the content has been updated. passwd-hash configures one or more hashes to be used…

  • How do I trigger a script when a node comes up?

    Is it possible to setup a trigger event (run a script) upon node becoming UP and available? Yes, this is possible. You can define a custom action which will run the custom-script and assign it to the pass action of the “DeviceIsUP” health check: # cmsh% monitoring actions% add custom-action%…

  • Any suggestions for tuning NFS on my cluster?

    This article is being updated. Please be aware the content herein, not limited to version numbers and slight syntax changes, may not match the output from the most recent versions of Bright. This notation will be removed when the content has been updated. Do you have customers tuned their network stack?  I’m…

  • Why is the kipmi0 process consuming so much CPU time?

    This is known to occur with some BMC controllers. It can occur for several reasons including the following: kipmi0 is a kernel helper thread involved in handling IPMI interfaces. Within IPMI, there are several standard classes of interfaces. Some of these classes, like KCS (Keyboard Control Style) and SMIC (System…