Base Command Manager / Bright Cluster Manager Release Notes
Release notes for Bright 7.0-31
== cmdaemon ==
* Added: support for SLES12
* Improved: new pythoncm cluster.getEvent to get the list of events cached since it was last called
* Improved: query mysql for initial latest-known monitoring data when CMDaemon starts
* Improved: timestamps in history command in cmsh
* Improved: include parts of the ntpq output to ntp healthcheck info message when the healthcheck fails
* Improved: AdvancedConfig: ForceCustomPingScriptForNode to force using a script instead of cmd RPC
* Fixed: OpenStack: in some cases, bright-managed virtual nodes' instanceIDs not being cleared after terminating the node
* Fixed: retrieving jobs from LSF workload manager
* Fixed: imageupdate failure when timestamp of read-only networked mountpoint is changed
* Fixed: clear fields properly and add a check to prevent possible crash in GPU tools
* Fixed: LSF and openlava configuration files update while using external LSF server
* Fixed: setting custom LDAP base address for Xeon Phi
* Fixed: lfclient slots configuration in LSF when it is set to AUTO
* Fixed: make systemd wait until cmd is completely stopped
* Fixed: ilo support for HA
* Fixed: pythoncm reconnect after cmd is restarted
* Fixed: LSF healthcheck
* Fixed: schedulers halthcheck when uge is configured via sge roles
* Fixed: starting munge and slurm inside MIC when the MIC is restarted
* Fixed: possible deadlock when adding/moving CloudNodes from NodeGroups of CloudDirectors
* Fixed: Hadoop: in some cases, nfs gateway parameters not written in the correct configuration file
== node-installer-slave ==
* Updated: syslinux to 6.03 for Mellanox FlexBoot
== manuals ==
* Added: [cmsub]: (re)configuration and how it works
* Added: URL of cmgui installer
* Added: update on nfs over rdma for rhel7
* Added: memtest86 needs admin intervention and can be dropped in unfeasibly larger clusters
* Added: Apache Storm project
* Added: note on incompatible intel-mic-ofed scif driver packages
* Added: [cmsh] timestamps option to history command
* Improved: FrozenFile directives with regular nodes, added SDD read/write toggle to troubleshooting checklist for node-install halt
* Updated: MIC k1om configuration and overlays for Intel MPSS revision 3.4
* Fixed: mic cross compiler module is now part of runtime module
== cluster-tools ==
* Hadoop: support for SLES 12
* Hadoop: add support for Apache Sqoop project
* Hadoop: --metastoredb option to cm-hive-setup
* When OGS or UGE is setup or enabled then check if /cm/shared is NFS3 mounted (should not be)
* Hadoop: add support for Apache Hive 1.0.0
* Hadoop ncurses wizard: add support for Cloudera CDH 4.7.1, 5.2.3, and 5.3.1
* Hadoop: add support for Cloudera CDH 4.7.1
* Fixed: UGE and SGE(OGS) disabling/enabling with wlm-setup
* Fixed: creating a new MIC category when no workload manager is specified as cm-mic-setup argument
== cm-apache-hadoop ==
* Update HBase from 0.98.8 to 0.98.9
* Updated: HBase 0.98.9 to 0.98.10
== cm-apache-hadoop-extras ==
* Update Spark from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
* Added: tarballs for Apache Sqoop project
* Updated: Hive 0.14.0 to 1.0.0
== cm-cloudera-hadoop ==
* Updated: CDH 5.2.1 to 5.3.0
* Updated: CDH 4.7.0 to CDH 4.7.1 and CDH 5.3.0 to 5.3.1
== cm-config-systemd ==
* Added: additional config for nfs-mountd.service to make sure /proc/fs/nfsd is mounted before the nfs-mountd.service is started.
== cm-scale-cluster ==
* Get rid of requirement to have an LSF environment module file when AUTO_SLOTS=YES (useful when LSF is running externally)
* Added: tag all instances and volumes created by BCM with bright_cluster=CLUSTER_NAME
* Added: dynamically retrieve the number of node slots (configurable, LSF only)
* Added: link starting/cloning of nodes to a specified resource
== cmgui ==
* Hadoop wizard: add support for Cloudera CDH 4.7.1, 5.2.3, and 5.3.1
* Fixed: HA node group overview to show active node
== cuda-driver ==
* Update nvidia driver version from 340.32 to 340.65 update nvidia-ml-py version from 4.304.04 to 6.340.0
== gcc ==
* Updated: gcc to 4.8.4
== intel-mic ==
* Update MPSS from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2
== intel-tbb ==
* Update from 43_20141023oss to 43_20141204oss.
== intel-wired-ethernet-drivers ==
* Update ixgbe driver version from 3.22.3 to 3.23.2. Update ixgbevf driver version from 2.15.3 to 2.16.1.