Programmatically apply a template to a node cluster

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:22:00 Z

Hi there,

Got a question. I noticed quite a few PowerShell samples to perform the configuration step of the HPC. I am interested if it is possible to perform the configuration steps in the To-do List programmatically using the HPC .NET APIs.

## Set network topology to public network topology
Set-HpcNetwork -Topology Public -Public intel*
## Set install credential
Set-HpcClusterProperty -InstallCredential username

## Set naming series
Set-HpcClusterProperty -NodeNamingSeries MyCluster%1000%

## Apply the node template to all unknown compute nodes.

Get-hpcnode -State unknown -GroupName computenodes | Assign-HpcNodeTemplate -Name defaultnode* -Confirmfalse

## Bring all the offline nodes to the online state.

Get-HpcNode -State offline -GroupName computenodes | Set-HpcNodeState -State online

Any HPC .NET pointers will be much apprciated.

Thanks in advance,
Natalia

Programmatically apply a template to a node cluster

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:52:30 Z

I'm afraid management related APIs are not public and supported. So you cannot do that.

You can call PowerShell cmdlets from C# API, but we don't gurantte PowerShell back-compatibility on binary level so your C# code will have problem working with HPC Server 2008 R2 client/cluster. (Syntax level back-compat is supported so those scripts will still run in HPC Server 2008 R2.).