• How do I replicate additional non-Bright databases?

    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. Sometimes the cluster administrator may arrange for more databases…

  • How do I integrate ZFS with Bright?

    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’s a recipe to follow: Installing and Configuring A…

  • How do I install OpenStack’s Trove into Bright?

    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. Trove is OpenStack’s reference database service. At the time…

  • How is a spoofing attack avoided in AD with Bright?

    [Everyone I speak about joining a node to AD indicates there is a unique key that the node receives at the time of the join so AD knows later that nobody is spoofing. How does Bright preserve this unique key information across re-provisioning?] This article is being updated. Please be aware…

  • How do I change the cipher list CMDaemon negotiates with clients?

    Can I change the cipher list that CMDaemon will negotiate with clients? 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…

  • How do I customize postfix?

    Short answer: For Bright Cluster Manager 7.0 and Above, the relay host can be managed by BCM in the base partition. Longer answer The /etc/postfix/main.cf, on the BCM default head node is the same as the default distribution version, with an appended section that Bright maintains. The same is true…

  • Can I use Google Authenticator to connect to 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. This article, in particular, needs to be updated as…

  • How do I install MOAB in Bright?

    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. To install MOAB on top of BCM, the following…

  • How to Install HTCondor from sources on top of a Bright Cluster

    HTCondor can be installed on top of a Bright Cluster as follows: Note: The following instructions have been tested on Bright 7.3 with CentOS 7 as the base OS. On the head node 1. Install dependencies: # yum install setools-console policycoreutils-python perl-Date-Manip.noarch 2. untar the sources: # tar -xzvf condor-8.4.9-x86_64_RedHat7-stripped.tar.gz 3….

  • Adding Bright to an existing system doesn’t work! What now?

    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. The manual does discourage using the add-on method. If the…