Open the HPC Portal for the first time

Launch the interactive HPC Portal to monitor hosts and jobs and run jobs.

Make sure the HPC Portal is installed.

The HPC Portal allows you to monitor hosts and jobs, as well as submit jobs. When logging in for the first time, the LSF administrator must log on as root.

All administrators and non-administrator users logging on to the HPC Portal must provide an OS user name and password.

  1. Open the HPC Portal in a supported Web browser.

    http://master_host_name:8080/platform

  2. Log on with your UNIX or Windows username and password.
  3. If the log on failed or the URL could not be found, restart the HPC Portal by running pmcadmin from the command line.

    In most cases, the daemons and services required to run the HPC Portal start automatically; however, if the HPC Portal goes down, you may need to restart HPC Portal services and daemons.

Enable cookies

The HPC Portal requires that Web browsers accept first-party and third-party cookies. In some cases, your browser default settings may block these cookies. In this case, you need to manually change this setting.

Note:

By default, IE7 blocks cookies, while IE6, Firefox 1.5, and Firefox 2.0 allow cookies.

For IE7:

  1. In your browser, go to Tools > Internet Options > Privacy > Advanced.
  2. Select Override automatic cookie handling.
  3. Select Accept for both first-party and third-party cookies.
  4. Click OK to save your settings.