Installing and Using LTSP with OpenSSI

This document describes what has to be done for successfully running LTSP on 
an OpenSSI Cluster, such that the LTSP client connections are load-balanced 
across nodes in the cluster using HA-LVS. If the LTSP terminals need not run 
X Windows or you do not want XDMCP connection loadbalancing to happen in 
your OpenSSI cluster, then you can skip steps 2 and 4.

1. Install Fedora Core and OpenSSI.

2. Follow README.X-windows and setup X to run on all nodes of the cluster.
   Note: Make sure that the /etc/X11/XF86Config has proper entries in the 
	 Screen, Monitor and Device sections to support all the nodes in the 
	 cluster. This is needed in order for the gdm/X to run on all nodes in 
	 the cluster.

3. Follow README.ipvs and setup ha-lvs on the cluster.

4. Run the following commands on the LVS director node:

	ipvsadm -A -u <cvip>:177 -s wlc
	ipvsadm -a -u <cvip>:177 -r <init node's IP address>:177 -g -w 1
	ipvsadm -a -u <cvip>:177 -r <second node's IP address>:177 -g -w 1
	ipvsadm -a -u <cvip>:177 -r <third node's IP address>:177 -g -w 1
	<continue for all nodes in the cluster>

   If you configured HA-LVS for failover, you also need to run these 
   commands on all backup director nodes.
   
   If somebody writes an initscript for automating this, please share it 
   with the rest of us on ssic-linux-devel@lists.sf.net.

5. Follow README.nfs and setup NFS server on your OpenSSI cluster.

6. Follow instructions in http://www.ltsp.org/ltsp-4.1.html
   and install and configure LTSP on the root node of OpenSSI cluster.

7. When the LTSP configuration program generates /etc/dhcpd.conf.sample, 
   move it to /etc/dhcpd.proto and open it for editing. Change the root-path 
   option to specify the CVIP IP address, rather than the local IP address 
   that LTSP configures by default. Otherwise, the clients will not be able 
   to do their NFS mounts. Also, do all the necessary changes to add a 
   dynamic IP address range and/or static IP addresses for particular clients. 

   Next, run `mkdhcpd.conf' (which combines /etc/dhcpd.proto with information 
   from /etc/clustertab to create /etc/dhcpd.conf). Finally, run `service 
   dhcpd restart'.

8. Change the SERVER assignment in /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf to specify 
   the CVIP IP address, rather than the local IP address that LTSP 
   configures by default. Otherwise, LTSP clients will not be load 
   balanced among the server nodes.

9. When configuring LTSP, there's no need to start the nfs service, since 
   OpenSSI for Fedora Core instead uses the SSInfs service.