Just get it all under puppet (puppetlabs.com). On Aug 14, 2012 9:55 PM, "Steven Tucker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of 20 > nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a lot of MPI. > My problem is that I periodically get asked to include some library or > program to help out with some ones research code, and often it is something > that needs to be installed across all nodes. > > On my Mageia cluster I simply run urpmi parallel, issue the one command > and it installs across all nodes. For those not familiar with urpmi > parallel, it queries all the nodes asking what rpms are needed to install > the given software (including all dependencies), it then downloads all the > rpms to the machine running urpmi, it then pushes the appropriate rpms to > each node and installs them. > > Is there anything like this for Scientific Linux (RHEL) and Yum ?? > The closest thing I have seen so far is clusterssh, but its not really the > same as each node has to download from the repository. clusterssh is a > general tool for parallel shells. > > I am using a Redhat clone for a number of reasons, the largest being I was > told to and don't really have choice in the matter, so no chance of > changing distros. Scientific Linux was easy to configure and everything > seems to work quite well, so I am quite happy with the distro except for > the lack of a urpmi parallel type tool. > > Any suggestions ?? > > cheers > > Tuxta > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/**mailinglists.html<http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
