Installing Moab Cluster Manager

Installing Moab Cluster Manager

These instructions describe how to install and start Moab Cluster Manager (MCM).

Requirements
Prerequisites

You will need to install Oracle®/Sun® Java® SE 6 or higher, which includes a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 or higher.

You must obtain a JRE from Oracle. MCM will not run correctly on JREs from other vendors, such as GCJ or OpenJDK. The Linux and Windows builds of MCM come bundled with the correct JRE. However, if you install the generic Unix version of MCM, you will need to download a JRE separately.

You can check which version of Java you have installed by running the following command:

$ java -version

The output should look similar to this:

java version "1.6.0_33"

Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_33-b03)

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.8-b03, mixed mode)

To install Moab Cluster Manager on a Linux/Unix system

  1. Download the latest 7.1.0 build of the tar file from the Adaptive Computing website:
  2. Move the tar file to your home directory, or another directory you have access to (for example, /home/username/), and unpack the tar file (tar -xzvf xxxx.tar.gz).
  3. Change directories to the newly unpacked MCM directory.
  4. Start MCM by running the following script:

    5. $ mv mcm-7.1.x-xxxx.tar.gz /home/bob

    $ cd /home/bob

    $ tar zxvf mcm-7.1.x-xxxx.tar.gz

    $ cd mcm-7.1.x-xxxx/

    $ ./mcm &

  5. The MCM script checks for the existence of a compatible JRE and then runs MCM.

    6. After you accept the license, you will see the Connection Wizard. For information about configuring MCM to connect to Moab Workload Manager, see the "Connection Wizard" section in the Moab Cluster Manager User Guide.

To install Moab Cluster Manager on a Windows system

  1. Download the latest 7.1.0 build executable from the Adaptive Computing website.
  2. Double-click the installation file.
  3. Follow the MCM installer instructions to install MCM.

    4. Once it has completed, the installer creates Start Menu and Desktop icons that you can use to start MCM.

    The default destination folder for MCM is either C:\Program Files\Moab Cluster Manager or C:\Program Files\(x86)\Moab Cluster Manager (depending on what version of Windows you are running).

  4. Double-click the Moab Cluster Manager icon on the Desktop to run MCM.

    5. After you accept the license, you will see the Connection Wizard. For information about configuring MCM to connect to Moab Workload Manager, see the "Connection Wizard" section in the Moab Cluster Manager User Guide.

MCM will not have permissions to create log files if you are installing on a Windows 7 system. (This is because MCM does not have permission to write to sub-folders of C:\Program Files or C:\Program Files (x86) unless it is run as an administrator.)

If you are running Windows 7 and need to see log files, you can change the log file path to a location where the user running MCM has write permissions. You can make this configuration in the C:\Program Files (x86)\Moab Cluster Manager\conf\long4j.properties file by setting the log4j.appender.ROLL.File property.

For example, if you want logs to be written to C:\Users\Bob\AppData\Local (where Bob is the user running MCM), modify the log4j.appender.ROLL.File property as follows:

log4j.appender.Roll.File=${user.home}/AppData/Local/mcm.log

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