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Configuring IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer for multi-node Elasticsearch
Manual configuration is required for multi-node Elasticsearch to have high availability with IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer data collectors. This task is for those who have already installed IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer with one node of Elasticsearch and want to configure IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer to support high availability of Elasticsearch after extending from one node to a cluster. This is also for those users who have extended their Elasticsearch cluster to add more Elasticsearch server candidates, and to configure IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer to support the newly added server candidates.
Enabling LSF Elasticsearch functionality
To enable Elasticsearch functionality in IBM Spectrum LSF configure the parameters LSF_QUERY_ES_FUNCTIONS and LSF_QUERY_ES_SERVERS in the lsf.conf configuration file. Additional configuration to the config.json and demo.conf files.
Importing the sample Kibana dashboard
Beginning with Fix Pack 9, a sample Kibana dashboard is provided as part of the installation of IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer.
Changing the Web Server Port
You can change the default port number used by IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Server for the web server.
Changing the ports used to connect to Elasticsearch
If you change the ports used by Elasticsearch, you will need to update the ports used by IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer to connect to Elasticsearch.
Changing the index purge duration for Elasticsearch
To avoid unchecked growth of data stored in Elasticsearch, older data must be deleted periodically. This is accomplished by rotating indexes and deleting them after the predefined retention period.
Customizing perf loaders to collect user defined fields
Explorer nodes support customized perf loaders to collect user defined fields using Elasticsearch.
Enabling Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
Role-based Access Control (RBAC) for IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer can be enabled manually at any time after installation. It involves installing and configuring the database, and then configuring web services.
Enabling HTTPS for Explorer web console
Enabling HTTPS in IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer is performed using the pmcadmin https command.
Enabling GPFS IO
Enabling GPFS IO allows IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer to collect fine-grained statistics for accounting and monitoring. IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer supports GPFS version 5 and higher.
Enabling additional data loaders
To support customers migrating from Platform Analytics to IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer, legacy loaders from Platform Analytics 9.1.4 have been introduced in IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer 10.2 Fix Pack 10.
Configuring time zone used for reports
IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer can be configured to use the time zone setting from either the local machine (the user’s browser) or the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Server. The time zone is used when generating reports.
Starting/Stopping the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Server
Use the commands pmcadmin start and pmcadmin stop to start and stop the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Server services.
Starting/Stopping the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Data Collectors
Use the commands perfadmin start all and perfadmin stop all to start and stop the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer Data Collector services.
Starting/Stopping the Elasticsearch 5.4.1 service
If you install the IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer bundled Elasticsearch 5.4.1, you can start, stop or view the Elasticsearch service by using the commands (as seen below) as root:

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