HP Insight Cluster Management Utility v7.1 User Guide

2.5.5 Installing the HP Insight CMU v7.1 package..................................................................31
2.5.6 Restoring the HP Insight CMU configuration..................................................................31
2.5.7 Starting HP Insight CMU............................................................................................31
2.5.8 Deploying the monitoring client...................................................................................31
2.5.9 Deploying cmugui.jar to clients...................................................................................31
2.6 Saving the HP Insight CMU database..................................................................................31
2.7 Restoring the HP Insight CMU database...............................................................................31
3 Defining a cluster with HP Insight CMU.......................................................32
3.1 HP Insight CMU service status.............................................................................................32
3.2 Launching the HP Insight CMU GUI.....................................................................................32
3.2.1 HP Insight CMU main window.....................................................................................32
3.2.2 X server requirements.................................................................................................33
3.2.3 Administrator mode...................................................................................................33
3.2.4 Quitting administrator mode.......................................................................................33
3.2.5 Changing X display address.......................................................................................33
3.3 High-level checklist for building an HP Insight CMU cluster.....................................................34
3.4 Cluster administration........................................................................................................34
3.4.1 Node management....................................................................................................35
3.4.1.1 Scanning nodes..................................................................................................36
3.4.1.2 Adding nodes....................................................................................................37
3.4.1.3 Modifying nodes................................................................................................38
3.4.1.4 Importing nodes.................................................................................................39
3.4.1.5 Deleting nodes...................................................................................................39
3.4.1.6 Exporting nodes.................................................................................................39
3.4.1.7 Contextual menu................................................................................................39
3.4.2 Network entity management.......................................................................................39
3.4.2.1 Adding network entities......................................................................................40
3.4.2.2 Deleting network entities.....................................................................................40
4 Provisioning a cluster with HP Insight CMU..................................................41
4.1 Logical group management................................................................................................41
4.1.1 Modifying logical groups.............................................................................................42
4.1.2 Deleting logical groups...............................................................................................42
4.1.3 Renaming logical groups............................................................................................42
4.2 Autoinstall.......................................................................................................................43
4.2.1 Autoinstall requirements..............................................................................................43
4.2.2 Autoinstall templates..................................................................................................43
4.2.3 Autoinstall calling methods ........................................................................................43
4.2.4 Using autoinstall from GUI..........................................................................................44
4.2.4.1 Enabling autoinstall............................................................................................44
4.2.4.2 Creating an autoinstall logical group...................................................................44
4.2.4.3 Registering compute nodes.................................................................................45
4.2.4.4 Autoinstall compute nodes..................................................................................45
4.2.5 Using autoinstall from CLI...........................................................................................46
4.2.5.1 Registering an autoinstall logical group.................................................................46
4.2.5.2 Adding nodes to autoinstall logical group.............................................................46
4.2.5.3 Autoinstall compute nodes..................................................................................47
4.2.6 Customization...........................................................................................................47
4.2.7 Restrictions...............................................................................................................48
4.3 Backing up......................................................................................................................48
4.3.1 Backing up a disk from a compute node in a logical group.............................................48
4.4 Cloning...........................................................................................................................50
4.4.1 Preconfiguration........................................................................................................51
4.4.2 Reconfiguration........................................................................................................52
4.5 Node static info................................................................................................................53
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