HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1 User Guide
4.6 Rescan MAC....................................................................................................................53
4.7 HP Insight CMU image editor.............................................................................................54
4.7.1 Expanding an image..................................................................................................54
4.7.2 Modifying an image..................................................................................................55
4.7.3 Saving a modified cloning image................................................................................55
4.8 HP Insight CMU diskless environments.................................................................................55
4.8.1 Overview.................................................................................................................55
4.8.2 Operating systems supported.....................................................................................56
4.8.3 Installing the operating system on the management node and the golden node.................56
4.8.4 Modifying the TFTP server configuration ......................................................................56
4.8.5 Activating the diskless feature.....................................................................................57
4.8.6 Populating the HP Insight CMU database.....................................................................57
4.8.7 Creating a diskless image..........................................................................................57
4.8.8 Creating a diskless logical group................................................................................57
4.8.9 Adding nodes into the logical group...........................................................................59
4.8.10 Booting the compute nodes.......................................................................................60
4.8.11 Understanding the structure of a diskless image............................................................60
4.8.12 Customizing your diskless image................................................................................60
4.8.12.1 files.custom......................................................................................................60
4.8.12.2 Using reconf-diskless-image.sh...........................................................................61
4.8.12.3 Using reconf-diskless-snapshot.sh........................................................................61
4.8.12.4 Templates and image file...................................................................................62
4.8.13 Best practices for diskless clusters...............................................................................62
4.8.14 Configuring additional NFS servers............................................................................63
4.8.15 Comments on High Availability (HA)..........................................................................65
5 Monitoring a cluster with HP Insight CMU....................................................66
5.1 Installing the HP Insight CMU monitoring client......................................................................66
5.2 Deploying the monitoring client..........................................................................................66
5.3 Monitoring the cluster........................................................................................................67
5.3.1 Node and group status...............................................................................................68
5.3.2 Selecting the central frame display..............................................................................68
5.3.3 Global cluster view in the central frame........................................................................69
5.3.4 Resource view in the central frame...............................................................................70
5.3.4.1 Resource view overview......................................................................................70
5.3.4.2 Detail mode in resource view..............................................................................71
5.3.5 Gauge widget..........................................................................................................71
5.3.6 Node view in the central frame...................................................................................71
5.3.7 Using time view........................................................................................................72
5.3.7.1 Getting started...................................................................................................73
5.3.7.2 Tagging nodes..................................................................................................73
5.3.7.3 Adaptive stacking..............................................................................................73
5.3.7.4 Bindings and options..........................................................................................74
5.3.7.4.1 Mouse control............................................................................................74
5.3.7.4.2 Keyboard control........................................................................................74
5.3.7.4.3 Custom cameras.........................................................................................75
5.3.7.4.4 Options....................................................................................................75
5.3.7.5 Technical dependencies......................................................................................75
5.3.7.6 Troubleshooting.................................................................................................75
5.3.8 Archiving user groups................................................................................................76
5.3.8.1 Visualizing history data......................................................................................76
5.3.8.2 Limitations........................................................................................................77
5.4 Stopping HP Insight CMU monitoring..................................................................................77
5.5 Tuning HP Insight CMU monitoring .....................................................................................77
5.5.1 Action and alert files..................................................................................................77
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