After installing Platform LSF

  1. Optional. Run hostsetup to set up LSF hosts.
    1. Log on to each LSF server host as root. Start with the LSF master host. If you are not root, you can continue with host setup, but by default, only root can start the LSF daemons.
    2. Run hostsetup on each LSF server host. For example, to use the LSF cluster installed in /usr/share/lsf and configure LSF daemons to start automatically:

      # cd /usr/share/lsf/7.0/install

      # ./hostsetup ‑‑top="/usr/share/lsf" ‑‑boot="y"

      For complete hostsetup usage, enter hostsetup -h.

  2. Log on to the LSF master host as root, and set your LSF environment:
    • For csh or tcsh:

      % source LSF_TOP/conf/cshrc.lsf

    • For sh, ksh, or bash:

      $ . LSF_TOP/conf/profile.lsf

  3. Optional. Enable Platform LSF for users.

    Ensure all users Include LSF_CONFDIR/cshrc.lsf or LSF_CONFDIR/profile.lsf in their .cshrc or .profile.

  4. Run lsfstartup to start the cluster.

    If your cluster administrator lsfadmin is a local account, and you allow EGO to control HPC Portal, start the cluster as root.

  5. If you do not want to allow EGO to control HPC Portal, log onto the HPC Portal host and do the following.
    1. Start the HPC Portal. Run:

      pmcadmin start

      If your cluster administrator lsfadmin is a local account, start HPC Portal as root.

    2. Optional. Enable setrc for HPC Portal. Run:

      pmcsetrc.sh

  6. If you do not want to allow EGO to control PERF daemons, do the following.
    1. Start PERF daemons. Log onto the PERF host and run:

      perfadmin start all

    2. Optional. Enable setrc for PERF daemons. Log onto the PERF host and run:

      perfsetrc.sh

    3. If you use Derby database and the database host is not the PERF host, start the PERF database daemon. Log onto the Derby DB host and run:

      perfadmin start all

    4. Optional. If you use Derby database and the database host is not the PERF host, enable setrc for PERF database daemons. Log onto the Derby DB host and run:

      perfsetrc.sh

  7. Test your cluster by running some basic LSF commands (e.g., lsid, lshosts, bhosts). After testing your cluster, be sure all LSF users include LSF_CONFDIR/cshrc.lsf or LSF_CONFDIR/profile.lsf in their .cshrc or .profile.
  8. Test the HPC Portal. Browse to the web server URL and log in to the HPC Portal using the LSF administrator name and password.

    The web server URL is:

    http://host_name:8080/platform

    The host name is the HPC Portal host you specified.

    If HPC Portal is controlled by EGO and you did not specify the HPC Portal host, log on as LSF administrator and run:

    egosh client view GUIURL_1

    The additional information shows the full URL including the host name and port.