IRIDIA cluster todo - Revision history

Mmanfrin at 16:36, 13 February 2006

2006-02-13T16:36:37Z

Mmanfrin at 16:35, 13 February 2006

2006-02-13T16:35:57Z

Hlabella at 11:52, 22 February 2005

2005-02-22T11:52:10Z

Hlabella at 16:28, 17 February 2005

2005-02-17T16:28:08Z

Hlabella: divided the todo list in 3 parts: error/improvements/wishlist

2005-02-17T16:26:58Z

divided the todo list in 3 parts: error/improvements/wishlist

Christensen at 19:50, 16 February 2005

2005-02-16T19:50:56Z

Christensen at 19:49, 16 February 2005

2005-02-16T19:49:48Z

New page

This page contains a list of items which still need to be done on the cluster.

* There is a random error when installing the clients in the rack with FAI. The clients start to output a lot of things on screen, but unfortunately they scroll to fast to be read. I could not find any way to block them.
* A deamon that checks the status of the UPS should be installed on both majorana and polyphemus.
* Install Ganglia to monitor the usage of the cluster via web.
* Make the configuration of the package on the diskless and on the rack more similar. At the moment FAI takes care only of modifing the important configuation files in /etc.
* Use one repository for the configuation of those packaged which use debconf. I found out that this program can be used to access configuration DBs also shared via NFS of querying a LDAP server.
* Install LDAP instead of NIS (only if it is better).
* Install a new version of Sun Grid Engine (or something else).

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 * There is a random error when installing the clients in the rack with FAI. The clients start to output a lot of things on screen, but unfortunately they scroll to fast to be read. I could not find any way to block them.
 * Neither <tt>yppasswd</tt> nor <tt>passwd</tt> work on the clients of the NIS domain. User have to change password from <tt>majorana</tt>.
-* '''Max''': in order to have LAM/MPI works we need to set on each node update-alternatives --config rsh to the option 2 (ssh)
+* '''Max''': in order to have LAM/MPI works we need to set on each node update-alternatives --config rsh to the option 2 (ssh) (TODO: add this command in the FAI configuration files of the node image)
 Improvements:

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 * There is a random error when installing the clients in the rack with FAI. The clients start to output a lot of things on screen, but unfortunately they scroll to fast to be read. I could not find any way to block them.
 * Neither <tt>yppasswd</tt> nor <tt>passwd</tt> work on the clients of the NIS domain. User have to change password from <tt>majorana</tt>.
 Improvements:

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 * A daemon that checks the status of the UPS should be installed on both majorana and polyphemus.
 * Make the configuration of the package on the diskless and on the rack more similar. At the moment FAI takes care only of modifing the important configuation files in /etc.
-* Use one repository for the configuation of those packaged which use debconf. I found out that this program can be used to access configuration DBs also shared via NFS of querying a LDAP server.
+* Use one repository for the configuation of those packaged which use debconf. This program can be used to access configuration DBs also shared via NFS of querying a LDAP server.
-* Create a script to automaticcally install/upgrade packages on the clients
+* Create a script to automatically install/upgrade packages on the clients
 * Set up the backup server to automatically backup configuration files on the cluster.
 Wishlist:
 * Install Ganglia to monitor the usage of the cluster via web.
-* Install LDAP instead of NIS (only if it is better).
+* Install LDAP instead of NIS (only if it is better or it works).
 * Install a new version of Sun Grid Engine (or something else).
 * Install Bugzilla to trace problems on the cluster (and to have a knowledge base of how to solve them!).

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 * Use one repository for the configuation of those packaged which use debconf. I found out that this program can be used to access configuration DBs also shared via NFS of querying a LDAP server.
 * Create a script to automaticcally install/upgrade packages on the clients
 Wishlist: