IBM Platform HPC Version 4.2 Fix 338982 Readme File

Description

Readme documentation for IBM® Platform HPC Version 4.2 Platform Fix 338982, including installation-related instructions and prerequisites.

In Platform HPC, after you enable high availability, and manually close either the management node or standby management node using the bhosts command, pcmhatool fails to check LSF status. This failure occurs when the "pcmhatool check" command is run and the following error is displayed: "ERROR: Failure message: LSF stopped running on the management node. To start LSF, run the 'service phpc start' command". Apply this fix to resolve this issue. 

Readme file for: IBM Platform HPC
Product/Component release: 4.2
Update name: Fix 338982
Solution or fix ID: phpc_4.2_338982_fix.tar.gz
Publication date: 16 April 2015
Last modification date: 17 April 2015

Contents

Download location

Fix 338982 can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.

Products or components affected

Fix 338982 affects the following versions of Platform HPC: 4.2, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.2.

System requirements

None

Installation and configuration

Applying this fix involves the following steps:

  1. Download the "phpc_4.2_338982_fix.tar.gz" fix package from IBM Fix Central.
  2. Upload the fix tar file to the Platform HPC management node.
  3. On the Platform HPC management node, extract the fix tar file.
# tar -zxvf phpc_4.2_338982_fix.tar.gz -C /tmp
  1. On the Platform HPC management node, create backup of the test_lsf.py, delete the test_lsf.pyc and test_lsf.pyo files. Then, copy the extracted test_lsf.py file to the same location.
# cd /opt/pcm/lib/python/kusu/ha/plugins/
# mv test_lsf.py test_lsf.py.bak
# rm -f test_lsf.pyc
# rm -f test_lsf.pyo
# cp /tmp/test_lsf.py ./
  1. Complete Step 2 - 4 on the Platform HPC standby management node.

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