Building Rolls ROCKS includes the roll mechanism for packaging software for distribution. A detailed developer guide is available, it contains all the info I nee...
Extend Compute Need to update extend compute for use at MSU and for changes in ROCKS 4.3. Actions in version from early Nov 2007 * install libgfortran with an...
A Plan for the ROCKS Graph ROCKS Graphs ROCKS uses the Redhat Anaconda installer to do installs. Using the Anaconda installer provides many advantages: * It ...
To build the rocks distribution (in /home/install/ or /export/rocks/install/): rocks create distro To have a node reinstall: rocks set host boot hostname action...
Well, I haven't actually done it, but here's the directions. Just reverse the architectures since we're running a x86_64 cluster and are going to be kickstarting ...
Useful Rocks Links * Rocks v5.2 User Guide the User Guide... * Kickstart XML Reference Just remember that the "var" tag no longer works and that we use...
ROCKS 5.3 * R53abMSURXX Setup of msurxx * R5abFileServer Building a file server and configuring with cfengine * UMRocksiSetup Taking umrocksi.aglt2.org f...
Manually Adding Nodes to Database The insert ethers command used to support manually adding nodes, it no longer does, however this can be performed using the rock...
Intro Here are listed releases or "tags" of the ROCKS installation. Issues with each can be added here. Summer 2011 making an attempt to maintain this page go...
lighttpd service is running on client during install. it matches URLs that have HOST == 127.0.0.1. Then does a redirect of "/install/(. )$" = rocks by.py?filena...
ROCKS Node Info A feature that is weak or missing from ROCKS is a way to add user defined parameters on a per node basis. There is a mechanism for adding user de...
Cross Kickstarting in Rocks 4.3 So you want to cross Kickstart nodes that aren't the same architecture as your front end? Don't worry, rocks can do that, or it's ...
DNS in ROCKS References: * http://rscott.org/dns/ DNS Oversimplified This page written for ROCKS 4.3 with the update given below. ROCKS will manage the config ...
In ROCKS5 whole new scheme for user customization of partitioning. The annoyances with getting custom partitioning done in ROCKS4 seem to be gone we no longer ne...
ROCKS FAQs Introduction FAQs are divided into groups... Database management using ROCKS command Add an appliance This will add new entries in the membership an...
First begin by installing your Frontend by following the directions in the Rocks users guide, make sure you include the service pack roll, as it's required and fi...
To manually add a node in Rocks v5.2 you only really need two commands provided that the appliance type already exists, you could check that it's in the list when...
ROCKS 4.3 Install From Scratch Install log of ROCKS 4.3 and SLC45 on a Dell Poweredge 2950 server and 1950 client. The client will be installed over the network ...
Generic Kickstart Want to perform a network install of a node that won't be a ROCKS client but using the ROCKS frontend as the kickstart server. Have tried and f...
ROCKS Graphs Default graph in ROCKS52 Initial new AGL graph structure in ROCKS52 How To make them View on frontend web page (under "misc admin"), or... rocks lis...
ROCKS Installer This page is a description of how the ROCKS installer boots, how it requests the kickstart file for the node, how the server generates the kicksta...
ROCKS MySQL Database ROCKS stores configuration information in a MySQL database. Normal operations on configuration are performed with the rocks command, but thi...
ROCKS Frontend on VMware Running ROCKS frontend on VMware can simplify some management and recovery operations. The ROCKS frontend functions don't require much c...
Configuring to PXE boot Servers from the Rocks 5.5 HeadNodes From Ben on 10/10/2012, the following procedure can be used to PXEboot a machine into SL6 via Rocks 5...
Install on Frontend Setup EPEL yum repo On test ROCKS5 frontend, install puppet server from EPEL repo. Note that redhat.com is not reachable from aglt2.org. But...
Using RCS in ROCKS and How ROCKS Uses RCS ROCKS uses RCS on files that are written or appended with the file tag in kickstart xml. This provides some possibili...
Recovery Roll The ROCKS server can automatically build a recovery roll that allows the server's configuration to be reproduced on a new ROCKS server install. Thi...
ROCKS Site Sync We have two ROCKS clusters and wish to keep their configurations synchronized. This page will describe how to do that. Note that a closely relat...
ROCKS Kickstart XML Style Guide and How To The kickstart XML and the accompanying scripts (extras directory) specify much of the configuration for nodes on our cl...
Managing the ROCKS Installer with Subversion See local subversion pages at Subversion Creating a Branch or Tag SVN root@msurox /home/install # svn copy m "c...
Test Frontend Wish to be able to separate production and test use of frontend. The idea is that the normal production frontend can be maintained with a well defi...
ROCKS Test Server Wish to have a second server on cluster to enable testing of new ROCKS configurations. It seems that it will be simpler to have an entirely sep...
Directory /home/install/tools under SVN control. Directory /home/install/tools/bin intended for adding to PATH as desired. Main.TomRockwell 29 May 2009
Update Installer Kernel Warning this is a cludge. Darn seems to work fine with the r610 hardware, but on the existing pe1950s, hardisk doesn't get mounted for rei...
Getting the MSU site up in ROCKS Had some initial difficulty getting the compute nodes installed. Restarted from scratch with the following plan: * Clean up /...
ROCKS Upgrade Procedures It would be helpful to write down how the following are performed: * Upgrade ROCKS version (minor and major) * Upgrade OS version (...
Want to do test installs nodes in a VMWare ESXi guest. Expect that more things can be made to work similarly to an install on a physical host, but expect that th...
Atlas Great Lakes Tier2 Web How to contact us * For problems, contact us through our signatures here: * Main.WenjingWu AGLT2 Manager and University of M...