Module 1: Install Cluster

• Describe HPCM features

• Define operating system slots

• Build cluster from ground up

• Provision node with GUI

• Provision node with command line

• Add nodes to the cluster

• Explore auto installation tools

Module 2: Discover

• Discover nodes

• Interpret cluster configuration files

• Review cluster services

Module 3: Data Networks

• Describe technologies

• Describe InfiniBand configuration

• Describe Intel Omni-Path configuration

• Describe software components

• Use diagnostic commands

Module 4: Manage Images

• Manage software repositories

• List software repositories

• Add software repositories

• Remove software repositories

• Create repository groups

• Customize an image by using RPM lists

• Create a compute node image

• Create an ICE-compute node image

• Manage image version control

• Check in an image into version control

• Compare differences between two versions of an

image

• List the versions of an image

• Deploy a specific version of an image

• Push an ICE-compute image to a rack

• Use parallel tools and inbuilt functionality to check

differences between nodes

• Enable hyperthreading

• Disable hyperthreading

• Configure array services

• Install batch scheduler server on a compute node

• Install batch scheduler client on a compute node and in

ICE compute node

• Configure HPCM connectors to job schedulers

• Capture an image from a node (golden)

• Add RPMs to, remove RPMs from, and version control

compute images

• Add and remove RPMs from running compute nodes

• Clone an ICE-compute image

• Clean up old images on the lead node

• Add RPMs to ICE compute image Compare when and

when not to use tmpfs root

• Determine which nodes use tmpfs root

• Configure nodes to use tmpfs root

• List tmpfs quota difference (rack leader quotas do not

apply when ICE-compute nodes are in tmpfs)

• Set tmpfs mode

• Set disk mode

• Show which mode a node has booted with

• Show which mode a node is scheduled to boot into

• Perform a clone operating system slot operation

Module 5: Automate Post Installation Tasks • Review conf.dscripts

• Exclude a conf.d script

• Use pre_reconf.sh

• Use reconfig.sh

• Develop post install and per-host customization scripts

Module 6: Configure Shared Filesystem, User Accounts,

Applications, and Updates

• NFS Export a filesystem on a compute node

• Mount an NFS filesystem and create a user on an ICE

compute node

• Manage user accounts

• Synchronize UIDs and GIDs, LDAP, etc.

• Run an application on compute and ICE compute

nodes

• Display BIOS settings

• Upgrade firmware

• Update kernel

• Update distribution

• Update HPCM

Module 7: Troubleshoot Cluster • Backup clusterconfiguration

• Backup managed network switch configuration

• Use the central log repository

• Investigate log files

• Gather system information

• Interrogate iLOs, BMCs

• Confirm resources

• Create pdsh groups

• Investigate bond devices

• Inspect VLAN devices

• Capture a node crash dump

• Transfer an image from another slot or another system

and confirm that the image can be used.

• Inject faults

Module 8: Review Cluster Security

• Describe system administrator configurable security

tasks

• Describe what makes cluster security different from

standalone security (how would change X break the

cluster)

• List ports used for each node role and for which

interfaces

• List components with passwords

– Admin node

– Flat compute nodes

– Rack leader nodes

– ICE compute nodes

– BMCs

– CMCs

– Ethernet network switches

– InfiniBand and Omni-Path switches

– IB/OPA switch BMCs

– Storage controllers

• List components that can have passwords applied