The installation of CSM software has three scenarios which are described in this documentation with many supporting procedures. Here is an overview of the workflow through the documentation to support these scenarios.
[CSM Install] (002-CSM-INSTALL.md)
Installation prerequisites
Satisfy the prerequisites for one of these three installation scenarios
Once the installation prerequisites have been addressed, the installation is very similar for all of them. There are a few places where a comment will be made for how one of the scenarios needs to do something different.
Starting an installation
The three separate scenarios (above) continue the same way at this point, with preparation and then booting from the LiveCD.
Preparation of the LiveCD on a USB stick can be done from a Linux system such as a booted ncn-m001 node with either Shasta v1.3 or v1.4 or a laptop or desktop.
Now that ncn-m001 has been booted from the LiveCD, the other management NCNs will be deployed to create the management Kubernetes cluster.
Install all of the CSM applications and services into the management Kubernetes cluster.
The CSM installation validation and health checks can be run after install.sh finishes in this installation process, but can also be run at other times later.
The ncn-m001 node needs to reboot from the LiveCD to normal operation as a Kubernetes master node.
The CSM installation validation and health checks can be run again now that ncn-m001 has been rebooted to join the Kubernetes cluster.
The NCNs should be locked to prevent accidental firmware upgrades with FAS or power down operations and reset operations with CAPMC.
Review the security hardening guide, apply non-optional procedures, and review optional procedures.
The firmware versions of many components may need to be updated at this point in the installation process.
The details of the process are outlined in 255-FIRMWARE-ACTION-SERVICE-FAS.md using recipes listed in 256-FIRMWARE-ACTION-SERVICE-FAS-RECIPES.md
Then the administrator should install additional products following the procedures in the HPE Cray EX System Installation and Configuration Guide S-8000.
These documentation files are grouped to keep similar pages together.