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  • ICE ClusterWare Documentation
  • Overview
  • Quickstart
  • Install
  • Administration
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Section Navigation

Introduction

  • Introduction
  • ICE ClusterWare Graphical User Interface
  • ICE ClusterWare Command Line Tools
  • Variable Substitution
  • Sample Files

Cluster Management

  • Manage Cluster
    • Cluster Overview Page
    • Cluster Settings
    • cw-clusterctl
    • cw-nssctl
    • IP Forwarding Issues
    • managedb
    • Log Files
    • Auditing
    • Creating Diagnostic Test Images
    • cw-sysinfo
  • Third Party Providers
    • KubeVirt Provider
    • Virsh Provider
  • Create Login Nodes
  • Update and Upgrade
    • Update the ICE ClusterWare Software
    • Update Firmware
    • Update Base Distribution Software
  • Backup and Restore
    • take-snapshot

Compute Node Management

  • Interacting with Compute Nodes
    • cw-nodectl
  • Nodes Page
  • Executing Commands
  • Create Nodes
    • Node Creation with Known MAC address(es)
    • Node Creation with Unknown MAC address(es)
    • Support for Diskful Nodes
    • Compute Node Fields
    • Compute Node Power Control
  • Boot Nodes
    • Node Boot Style
    • Compute Node Initialization Scripts
    • Booting From Local Storage Cache
    • Booting Diskful Compute Nodes
    • cw-reports
  • Manage Nodes
    • Changing IP Addresses
    • Node Name Resolution
    • Command-Line Monitoring of Nodes
    • Managing Node Failures
    • Soft Power Control Failures
    • Managing Large Clusters
    • Hostnames Page
    • Manage Non-ICE ClusterWare Entities
  • Attribute Groups
    • Database Primitive Fields and Attributes
    • Node Attributes
    • Node Selectors
    • Dynamic Groups
    • Node Attributes Page
    • Dynamic Groups Page
    • cw-attribctl
    • Reserved Attributes
  • Naming Pools Page
  • Node Names and Pools

Compute Node Provisioning

  • Boot Configurations Page
  • cw-add-boot-config
  • cw-* Wrapper Scripts
  • Boot Configurations
    • Create Local Repo
    • Create Boot Configuration with Kickstart
    • cw-mkramfs
    • cw-bootctl
    • Freezing a Boot Configuration
    • Deleting Boot Configurations
    • Exporting and Importing Boot Configurations Between Clusters
    • Using Kickstart
    • Using RHCOS
  • Software Images
    • Images
      • Images Page
      • Creating Images
      • Recreating the Default Image
      • Repos and Distros
      • Modifying Images
      • Caching in cw-modimg
      • Updating the Kernel in an Image
      • Updating Drivers Inside Images
      • Capturing, Importing, and Moving Images
      • Automating Common Image Tasks
      • Deploying Images Using Ignition
      • Freezing an Image
      • Deleting Unused Images
    • cw-imgctl
    • cw-modimg
    • Failing PXE Network Boot
    • Creating Local Repositories without Internet
    • Validating ClusterWare ISOs
      • make-iso
  • Image Sources Page
  • Git Repositories
  • Git Repos Page

Health and Monitoring

  • State Maps
  • Grafana Telemetry Dashboard
    • Introduction to Grafana and InfluxDB
    • Grafana Setup Script
    • Grafana Login
    • Grafana Cluster Monitoring
  • Workload Management
    • Monitoring Scheduler Info
    • Applications Report Excessive Interruptions and Jitter

User Management

  • Role-Based Access Control System
  • Users and Groups Page
  • Configure Additional Cluster Administrators
    • cw-adminctl
  • Tokens and User Impersonation
  • Integrating Keycloak with ICE ClusterWare
  • Policy Management Page
  • Integrating FreeIPA with ICE ClusterWare
  • configctl

Head Node Management

  • Head Nodes Page
  • Important Files on Head Nodes
  • Managing Multiple Head Nodes
  • headctl
  • Troubleshooting Head Nodes

Network Management

  • Network Switches
  • Switches Page
  • Managing Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for Switches
  • cw-switchctl
  • Identify Nearby Network Interfaces
  • Networks Page
  • Open Network Ports
  • Providing DHCP to Additional Interfaces
  • Exceeding System Limit of Network Connections

Multi-Tenant Cluster Management

  • Multi-Tenant Cluster Management
  • Create a Tenant
  • Tenants Page
  • Tenancy Network Isolation
  • Create a Tenancy
    • Tenancy Terraform File Requirements
  • Tenancies Page
  • Share Tenancy with Tenant
  • Monitor the Quarantine Tenancy
  • Delete a Tenancy and Tenant
  • Create a Tenancy with Command Line Tools
  • Administration
  • Create Nodes

Create Nodes#

  • Node Creation with Known MAC address(es)
    • Create Multiple Nodes
    • Related Links
  • Node Creation with Unknown MAC address(es)
  • Support for Diskful Nodes
    • Pre-Installer Script
    • Installer Scripts
    • Installation Logs
    • Head Node Preparation
    • RPM and DEB Installations
    • TAR Installations
  • Compute Node Fields
  • Compute Node Power Control
    • Power Control with IPMI
    • Virtual Machine Power Control
    • Tenancy Node Power Control

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