Clusters Management with AutoYaST

Here are the slides of Jacques Menu on “AutoYaST and Installation of central services clusters” presented at the last hpc-ch forum.

The agenda of the presentation is:

  • YaST possibilities
  • Novell registration
  • System patch
  • Installation of software supplied by Novell
  • Installation server 8
  • Compute nodes installation strategy 8
  • Compute nodes boot order 9
  • PXE boot configuration files 10
  • AutoYaST control files 15
  • Node-specific settings 19
  • “chroot-scripts” section
  • “init-scripts” section
  • Specific software installation scripts
  • SSH matters
  • Conclusion

Slides as PDF »