INSTALL.md

Installation Guide

The installation of Arbiter 3 is as follows:

1. Install and configure the arbiter Django app
2. Install and configure Prometheus
3. Install and configure cgroup-warden on each login node

Arbiter Service

The core arbiter service is a Django application. This needs to be installed on a machine with secure network access to Prometheus and the desired login nodes.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• SQLite3 (or another Django compatible DB backend)

Install

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Configure

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cgroup-warden

Install

See the cgroup-warden installation guide.

Configure

See the cgroup-warden installation guide.

Prometheus

Install

See the Prometheus installation guide.

Configure

For general configuration, see here.

Each cgroup-warden instance needs to be scraped. An example configuration might be

scrape_configs:
  - job_name: 'cgroup-warden'
    scrape_interval: 30s
    static_configs:
      - targets:
        - login1.yoursite.edu:2112
        - login2.yoursite.edu:2112
        - login3.yoursite.edu:2112
        - login4.yoursite.edu:2112