Prerequisite is an installed LSF cluster and a gsoap 2.7.10 installation (make sure that it is exact this version – newer version won’t work). Now check-out the BES++ sources:

svn co https://bespp.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bespp bespp

Now edit the Make.config file and adjust the path to your gsoap installation. The attribute is called GSOAP_TOP and can be found in the first lines of the file. You might need to adjust the LSF_LOC and LSF_ARCH attribute as well – based on the system you use. Now simple run make and the two executable besclient and besserver will be created.

While you might up ending using SSL you need to create a simple CA (or go to http://cacert.org):

mkdir cert
/usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca # will initialize the CA
[...]
/usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newreq # will create a cert request
/usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -sign # sign the request
cat newcert.pem newkey.pem > server.pem# create server pem
mkdir server/ && mv new* server/ # cleanup a bit
ln -s server.pem `openssl x509 -noout -hash -in server.pem`.0
./besserver -u <username> -h localhost -p 8443 -s <path>/cert/server.pem -c <path>/cert/ -g <username> -r lsf # run the besserver

Now to submit a simple job/activity with the besclient:

/usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newreq # will create a cert request
/usr/lib/ssl/misc/CA.pl -sign # sign the request
cat newcert.pem newkey.pem > user.pem
mkdir user1 && mv new* user1/
besclient -x user.pem -e endpoint.xml create sleep.jsdl # runs the client

The enpoint.xml files looks like:

<?xml version="1.0"  encoding="UTF-8"?>
<wsa:EndpointReference xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing">
    <wsa:Address>https://localhost:8443</wsa:Address>
</wsa:EndpointReference>

The sample sleep.jsdl file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<JobDefinition xmlns="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2005/11/jsdl">
    <JobDescription>
        <JobIdentification>
            <JobName>Sleep</JobName>
        </JobIdentification>
        <Application>
            <HPCProfileApplication xmlns="http://schemas.ggf.org/jsdl/2006/07/jsdl-hpcpa">
                <Executable>sleep</Executable>
                <Argument>60</Argument>
                <Output>/dev/null</Output>
                <WorkingDirectory>/tmp</WorkingDirectory>
            </HPCProfileApplication>
        </Application>
        <Resources>
            <TotalCPUCount>
                <Exact>1</Exact>
            </TotalCPUCount>
        </Resources>
    </JobDescription>
</JobDefinition>

Note: it might be necessary to add your CA to the /usr/lib/ssl/ directory as symbolic link…

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This is a simple script which will setup a OpenSolaris zone. After installing it is automatically configured using the sysidcfg file After running this script you will be logged in automatically. I use this script (slightly modified) to setup a complete test Platform LSF cluster…

It features the following setup:

• Support for ZFS deduplication so you can clone this machine and save disk space
• Support for DHCP so you can properly configure your network on your router
• Creates initial root password (You could add NIS or similar support as well)

#!/usr/bin/bash
zfs create rpool/export/zones
zfs set mountpoint=/zones rpool/export/zones
zfs set dedup=on rpool/export/zones

mkdir /zones/lsf_zone
chmod 700 /zones/lsf_zone

zonecfg -z lsf_zone "create; set zonepath=/zones/lsf_zone; set autoboot=false; add net; set address=192.168.0.160/24
; set defrouter=192.168.0.1; set physical=iwh0; end; verify; commit"

zoneadm -z lsf_zone verify
zoneadm -z lsf_zone install

zoneadm -z lsf_zone ready
touch /zones/lsf_zone/root/etc/sysidcfg

echo "name_service=NONE
system_locale=C
timeserver=localhost
timezone=CET
terminal=xterm
security_policy=NONE
nfs4_domain=dynamic
network_interface=primary {dhcp protocol_ipv6=no}" &> /zones/lsf_zone/root/etc/sysidcfg

zoneadm -z lsf_zone boot

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