HCL cluster/heterogeneous.ucd.ie install log

• Basic installation of Debian Squeeze
• edit /etc/networks/interfaces

iface eth0 inet static
	address 192.168.21.254
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	gateway 192.168.21.1

• set resolv.conf:

nameserver 137.43.116.19
nameserver 137.43.116.17
nameserver 137.43.105.22
domain ucd.ie
search ucd.ie

• Install non-free linux firmware
  • Edit /etc/apt/sources.list including the lines:

deb http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.ie.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

• Install firmware-linux:

  apt-get update && apt-get install firmware-linux
  

• follow the guide to installing Clonezilla here. Essentially:
  • add repository key

    wget -q http://drbl.sourceforge.net/GPG-KEY-DRBL -O- | apt-key add -
    

  • the line add to /etc/apt/sources.list:

    deb http://drbl.sourceforge.net/drbl-core drbl stable
    

  • run:

    apt-get update && apt-get install drbl && /opt/drbl/sbin/drbl4imp
    

  • accept default options to drbl4imp.

• After Clonezilla has installed edit /etc/dhcpd3/dhcpd.conf, adding all entries for test nodes hcl07 and hcl03. Also ensure these nodes have been removed from the inplace heterogeneous.ucd.ie server so that they are only served by one machine.

default-lease-time			300;
max-lease-time				300;
option subnet-mask			255.255.255.0;
option domain-name-servers  		137.43.116.19,137.43.116.17,137.43.105.22;
option domain-name			"ucd.ie";	
ddns-update-style                       none; # brett had ad-hoc ...?
server-name 				drbl;
filename = "pxelinux.0";


subnet 192.168.21.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
    option subnet-mask	255.255.255.0;
    option routers 192.168.21.1;
    next-server 192.168.21.254;

    pool {
      # allow members of "DRBL-Client";
      range 192.168.21.200 192.168.21.212;
    }

        host hcl03 {
                option host-name "hcl03.ucd.ie";
                hardware ethernet 00:14:22:0A:22:6C;
                fixed-address 192.168.21.5;
        }
	host hcl03_eth1 {
                option host-name "hcl03_eth1.ucd.ie";
                hardware ethernet 00:14:22:0A:22:6D;
                fixed-address 192.168.21.105;
        }
        host hcl07 {
                option host-name "hcl07.ucd.ie";
                hardware ethernet 00:14:22:0A:20:E2;
                fixed-address 192.168.21.9;
        }
        host hcl07_eth1 {
                option host-name "hcl07_eth1.ucd.ie";
                hardware ethernet 00:14:22:0A:20:E3;
                fixed-address 192.168.21.109;
        }

	default-lease-time 21600;	
	max-lease-time 43200;
}

Installing Ganglia Frontend

Install the packages gmetad and ganglia-webfrontend.

Configure the front end by appending to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf, the following:

Include /etc/ganglia-webfrontend/apache.conf

Configure gmetad by adding to the /etc/ganglia/gmetad.conf, the following line:

data_source "HCL Cluster" hcl07

After all packages are configured execute:

service apache2 restart
service gmetad restart

Pointing your browser to here should display the monitoring page for HCL Cluster. gmond must also be installed and configured on the cluster nodes.