Configuration blitz
Oct. 14th, 2016 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylOn staycation next week, I spent today trying to finish off as much work as possible before going away. Despite having had everything ready for quite some time, my attempts were hampered by the absence of the machine, the system had been taken down for hardware maintainance on Thursday and hadn't been brought back up. Thus most of the morning was spent waiting for the machine to bounce; this reinitialises the Aries links and loads the BIOS on the nodes. While the bounch process scales to some extent, it can take a long time on a large system, especially when, as inevitably seems to happen, some components fail to start causing the command to timeout and retry.
With the machine eventually up and the OS booted, I spent a frantic couple of hours applying my changes and updating my documentation to make it clear what I'd changed. I managed to get the PBS server configured and the queues defined before installing our multi-layered set of hooks. As far as my naive tests were concerned, everything seemed to work as expected, but the system really needs a full shakedown once the performance tests are complete and I can re-enable the hooks across the board.
With the machine eventually up and the OS booted, I spent a frantic couple of hours applying my changes and updating my documentation to make it clear what I'd changed. I managed to get the PBS server configured and the queues defined before installing our multi-layered set of hooks. As far as my naive tests were concerned, everything seemed to work as expected, but the system really needs a full shakedown once the performance tests are complete and I can re-enable the hooks across the board.
