Base Command Manager / Bright Cluster Manager Release Notes

Release notes for Bright 9.0-4

== General ==

- Improvements

* New packages for Intel Parallel Studio XE Cluster Edition for Linux version 2020

== cmdaemon ==

- New Features

* New metric average job start delay
* New generic additional node information script RPC
* New global configuration option to whitelist users and commands that can be executed with cmdaemon program runner
* New https://head-node:8081/prometheus/metrics endpoint to get all latest monitoring data as a prometheus exporter
* Allow monitoring data to be posted to a named pipe
* New http endpoint to push monitoring data
* New generic /proc and /sys sampler script that can be used to sample values as desired
* New metric MemoryUtilization percentage
* wait_cmd script now also checks cmd.conf include files for the port number
* An issue with updating the correct Slurm job status in the User Portal
* New options to disable automatic update of profiles
* Improved responsiveness of /var/spool/cmd/eventbucket
* Allow events to be logged to a named pipe
* New option to audit to a named pipe
* Fixed possible memory leak in DNS generator
* New option to log events to json or post to a url
* Added wekafs to the list of recognized external filesystems
* Improve stability in case of a large clock shift

- Fixed Issues

* In some cases, services belonging to roles set in overlay may not be created
* An issue which in some cases can result in gaps in GPU metrics when jobs are running
* An issue with OpenStack API entities being partially removed and readded to the DB

== node-installer ==

- Improvements

* Event bucket for node-installer in /tmp/eventbucket

== Bright View ==

- New Features

* New toggle to block HTTP(S) access to Bright View/User Portal from compute nodes

- Fixed Issues

* Unexpected behavior on accounting & reporting dashboard deletion
* An issue with adding new SoftwareImage
* DateTime input shows raw timestamp values
* In some cases, poor performance for entity overviews widgets

== bright-installer ==

- Fixed Issues

* IPMI network not created when compute nodes have BMC network type set to IMPI

== cm-lite-daemon ==

- Fixed Issues

* An issue with passing environment to cm-lite-daemon scripts

== cm-scale ==

- Improvements

* In some cases, an issue with cm-scale starting a node for a job array task

== cmdaemon-cmjob ==

- New Features

* Lustre FSX support for CentOS7u7

== cmsh ==

- Fixed Issues

* Install boot record not shown as inherited value in cmsh
* An issue with handling latesthealthdata -v argument for non device entities

== pythoncm ==

- Improvements

* New pythoncm member to get all nodes using an image

== user portal ==

- New Features

* New toggle to block HTTP(S) access to Bright View/User Portal from compute nodes

- Fixed Issues

* Unexpected behavior on accounting & reporting dashboard deletion