HP XC System Software Installation Guide Version 4.0

Table A-1 Installation and Configuration Checklist (continued)
ReferenceTask and Description
“Creating or Mounting the
/hptc_cluster File System
(Optional)” (page 61)
17. Create and mount the /hptc_cluster file system if it is not located
on a partition on the system disk (optional).
Discovering Hardware Components
“Discovering Hardware Components”
(page 63)
18. Run the discover command to discover network components.
Setting Up the Environment
“Setting Up the Environment” (page 77)19. Perform the following tasks to define and set up the system environment
before the golden image is created:
• Put the XC.lic license key file in the /opt/hptc/etc/license
directory (required).
• Configure interconnect switch line monitoring cards (required).
• Configure sendmail (required).
• Customize the Nagios environment (required).
• Configure access to the console port on the head node (required).
• Set the BMC/IPMI password on HP Integrity servers (required).
• Install additional HP or third-party software (optional).
• Create space for the kernel crash dumps.
• Modify workstation model names in the database (optional).
• Enable software RAID-0 or RAID-1 (optional).
• Create local user accounts (optional).
• Override the default user and group IDs (optional).
• Customize client node disk partitions (optional).
• Create the configuration file for MCS devices (optional).
• Mount network file systems (optional).
• Update initrd files with required hardware (optional).
Configuring the System
“Configuring and Imaging the System”
(page 95)
20. Run the cluster_config utility.
“Configuring Availability Sets”
(page 101)
21. Configure availability sets if you want to configure improved availability
of services.
“Modifying and Assigning Node Roles”
(page 103)
22. Modify the default role assignments.
“Responding to cluster_config
Questions” (page 105)
23. Supply configuration information requested by the cluster_config
command.
“Editing the /etc/dhcpd.conf File”
(page 117)
24. Edit the /etc/dhcpd.conf file (only for Myrinet interconnect).
Imaging
“Running the startsys Utility to Start
the System and Propagate the Golden
Image” (page 117)
25. Boot and image all nodes and propagate the golden image to all client
nodes.
Performing Postconfiguration Tasks
“Enabling SSH for the InfiniBand
Interconnect” (page 125)
26. Perform postconfiguration tasks for the InfiniBand interconnect (not
required for Myrinet or QsNet
II
).
“Creating a Lock LUN Device File”
(page 125)
27. Create a lock LUN device for quorum if HP Serviceguard is the
availability tool (optional).
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