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Populate admin directory with files defining site preferences

IUF activities use ${ADMIN_DIR} to retain files that define site preferences for IUF. ${ADMIN_DIR} is defined separately from ${ACTIVITY_DIR} and ${MEDIA_DIR} based on the assumption that the files in ${ADMIN_DIR} will be used when performing future IUF operations unrelated to this workflow.

NOTE The following steps assume ${ADMIN_DIR} is empty. If this is not the case, i.e. ${ADMIN_DIR} has been populated by previous IUF workflows, ensure the content in ${ADMIN_DIR} is up to date with the latest content provided by the HPC CSM Software Recipe release content being installed. This may involve merging new content provided in the latest branch of the hpc-csm-software-recipe repository in VCS or provided in the files extracted from the HPC CSM Software Recipe with the existing content in ${ADMIN_DIR}.

Change directory to ${ADMIN_DIR}

(ncn-m001#) Change directory
```
cd ${ADMIN_DIR}
```
Copy the sat bootprep and product_vars.yaml files from the uncompressed HPC CSM Software Recipe distribution file in the media directory to the current directory.

(ncn-m001#) Copy sat bootprep and product_vars.yaml files
```
cp "${MEDIA_DIR}"/hpc-csm-software-recipe-*/vcs/product_vars.yaml .
cp -r "${MEDIA_DIR}"/hpc-csm-software-recipe-*/vcs/bootprep .
```
(ncn-m001#) Examine the contents of ${ADMIN_DIR} to verify the expected content is present
```
find . -type f
```
Example output:
```
./bootprep/management-bootprep.yaml
./bootprep/compute-and-uan-bootprep.yaml
./product_vars.yaml
```
Edit the compute-and-uan-bootprep.yaml and management-bootprep.yaml files to account for any site deviations from the default values. For example:
- Comment out the slurm-site CFS configuration layer and uncomment the pbs-site CFS configuration layer in compute-and-uan-bootprep.yaml if PBS is the preferred workload manager
- Comment out the SBPS rootfs_provider and rootfs_provider_passthrough parameters and uncomment the CPS rootfs_provider and rootfs_provider_passthrough parameters, if DVS with CPS is the preferred method to project content.
- Comment the several sections with GPU_SUPPORT (between BEGIN_GPU_SUPPORT and END_GPU_SUPPORT) tags if the system has no GPU hardware. The sections are identified with BEGIN_GPU_SUPPORT and END_GPU_SUPPORT comments like this example.
```
# The gpu_customize_driver_playbook.yml playbook will install GPU driver and
# SDK/toolkit software into the compute boot image if GPU content is available
# in the expected Nexus repo targets. If GPU content has not been uploaded to
# Nexus this play will be skipped automatically. If GPU content is available in
# Nexus but a non-gpu image is wanted this layer can be commented out.
#BEGIN_GPU_SUPPORT
  - name: uss-gpu-customize-driver-playbook-{{uss.working_branch}}
    playbook: gpu_customize_driver_playbook.yml
    product:
      name: uss
      version: "{{uss.version}}"
      branch: "{{uss.working_branch}}"
    special_parameters:
      ims_require_dkms: true
#END_GPU_SUPPORT
```
- Comment out any CFS configuration layers in compute-and-uan-bootprep.yaml and management-bootprep.yaml files for products that are not needed on the system
- Any other changes needed to reflect site preferences
Create a site_vars.yaml file in ${ADMIN_DIR}. This file will contain key/value pairs for any configuration changes that should override entries in the default section of the HPE-provided product_vars.yaml file. There are comments at the top of the product_vars.yaml file that describe the variables and related details. The following are a few examples of site_vars.yaml changes:
- Add a default section containing a network_type: "cassini" entry to designate that Cassini is the desired Slingshot network type to be used when executing CFS configurations later in the workflow
- Add a suffix entry to the default section to append a string to the names of CFS configuration, image, and BOS session template artifacts created during the workflow to make them easy to identify
- Add a system_name entry to the default section. The Scalable Boot Projection Service (SBPS) uses this system name as the first part of the domain name. Do not add if not using SBPS.
  - See the procedure Create a Session Template to Boot Compute Nodes with SBPS for more information.
    - If the docs-csm RPM is installed on a node, then this page can be found under /usr/share/doc/csm/operations/boot_orchestration/Create_a_Session_Template_to_Boot_Compute_Nodes_with_SBPS.md. See the “Boot set rootfs_provider_passthrough parameter” section for more details.
    - Otherwise, it can be found under the appropriate release branch in https://github.com/Cray-HPE/docs-csm.
  - This documentation indicates how to find the system_name.
- Add a site_domain entry to the default section. The Scalable Boot Projection Service (SBPS) uses this domain name as the second part of the domain name. Do not add if not using SBPS.
  - See the procedure Create a Session Template to Boot Compute Nodes with SBPS for more information.
    - If the docs-csm RPM is installed on a node, then this page can be found under /usr/share/doc/csm/operations/boot_orchestration/Create_a_Session_Template_to_Boot_Compute_Nodes_with_SBPS.md. See the “Boot set rootfs_provider_passthrough parameter"section for more details.
    - Otherwise, it can be found under the appropriate release branch in https://github.com/Cray-HPE/docs-csm.
  - This documentation indicates how to find the site_domain.
Additional information on site_vars.yaml files can be found in the Site and recipe variables and update-vcs-config sections.
1. Create a site_vars.yaml file with desired key/value pairs
2. Ensure the site_vars.yaml file contents are formatted correctly. The following text is an example for verification purposes only.
  
  (ncn-m001#) Display the contents of an example site_vars.yaml file
```
cat site_vars.yaml
```
  Example output:
```
default:
  network_type: "cassini"
  suffix: "-test01"
  system_name: "my-system"
  site_domain: "my-site-domain.net"
uss:
  deploy_slurm: true
  deploy_pbs: false
```
3. Ensure the expected files are present in the admin directory after performing the steps in this section.
  
  (ncn-m001#) Examine the contents of ${ADMIN_DIR} to verify the expected content is present
```
find . -type f
```
  Example output:
```
./bootprep/management-bootprep.yaml
./bootprep/compute-and-uan-bootprep.yaml
./product_vars.yaml
./site_vars.yaml
```

Once this step has completed:

${ADMIN_DIR} is populated with product_vars.yaml, site_vars.yaml, and sat bootprep input files
The aforementioned configuration files have been updated to reflect site preferences