After the Bright head node installation for SLES, the Graphical console option is disabled. This is because it requires a manual X configuration with the sax2 utility for certain hardware, and does not work out of the box for all hardware.
Installing And Enabling the SLES Graphical Console After Installation
However, it is still possible to install and enable, for example, the Gnome Graphical desktop environment after the installation of a Bright head node, using the following recipe:
For Head Node
1. Install Gnome X packages
% yast -i
Filter based on 'Patterns'. This will provide a list of group install packages. Select Gnome
2. Edit /etc/inittab and change default runlevel to 5.
id:5:initdefault:
3. Edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager
DISPLAYMANAGER="gdm"
4. Run sax2 (this is a graphical utility)
Make sure your screens, mouse, keyboard, etc are detected. Save the configuration and quit the utility
5. Reboot
For Compute Nodes
Assuming that the software image for your nodes is /cm/images/default-image
mount -o bind /proc /cm/images/default-image/procmount -o bind /sys /cm/images/default-image/syschroot /cm/images/default-imageRepeat Steps 1 to 5 above.
Disable NetworkManager
NetworkManager must be disabled to prevent interference with the network management provided by the cluster manager.
On SLES11, it can be disabled using YAST.
On Red Hat 6 and derivatives, disabling can be done like:[root@bright70 ~]# service NetworkManager statusNetworkManager (pid 1527) is running...[root@bright70 ~]# chkconfig NetworkManager off[root@bright70 ~]# service NetworkManager stop
On Red Hat 7 and derivatives:[root@bright70 ~]# systemctl status NetworkManager.service[root@bright70 ~]# systemctl disable NetworkManager.service