NAME

       kanif.conf - configuration file for kanif

SYNOPSIS

       $HOME/.kanif.conf, /etc/kanif.conf or /etc/c3.conf

DESCRIPTION

       kanif.conf is the configuration file for kanif. It is optional and only helps the
       management of static clusters (configurations that do not change much over time). It
       mimics the syntax of C3 configuration file.

       It is composed of a sequence of one or more cluster definitions. Each cluster definition
       is made of the word "cluster" followed by the cluster name and, enclosed in a pair of
       curly braces :

       ·   the front node specification. This is either:

           ·   a simple hostname which can be reached from the inside of the cluster (compute
               nodes).

           ·   two names separated by a colon. The first name is the name used from the outside
               to log on the front node (not used by kanif). The second is the name used from the
               cluster compute nodes to reach the front node.

           ·   an hostname with a colon prepended. This is used for indirect clusters.  These are
               not supported by kanif at this time.

       ·   zero or more compute nodes specifications:

           ·   a simple hostname (anything that is not of the following form)

           ·   an host set made of a prefix, a range and a suffix.

           ·   an exclude directive that must follow an host set or another exclude directive.
               This is made of the word "exclude" followed on the same line by either a single
               number or an interval between brackets. This applies to the range of the preceding
               host set. If the exclusion is an interval, the separator between the word
               "exclude" and this exclusion is optional.

           ·   a dead node. The word "dead" followed by the name of the dead node on the same
               line.

       Notice that all nodes excluded (using exclude directives or dead nodes) will not take part
       of the deployment, but are still taken into account in cluster ranges when giving machines
       specifications to kanif (they are kind of placeholders). This is the interest of
       specifying nodes as dead or excluded rather than dropping them from the definitions.

EXAMPLE

         cluster megacluster {         # The # character introduce comments
               megacluster-dev
               megacluster0[1-9]
               megacluster[10-64]
         }

         cluster supercluster {
               super-ext:super-int
               exclude               # The host "exclude"
               super[01-99]
               exclude 02            # "super02" is excluded
               exclude[90-95]        # "super90" to "super95" are excluded
               dead                  # The host "dead"
               dead othernode        # "othernode" is dead
         }

SEE ALSO

       kanif(1), taktuk(1)

AUTHOR

       The author of kanif and current maintainer of the package is Guillaume Huard.
       Acknowledgements to Lucas Nussbaum for the idea of the name "kanif".

COPYRIGHT

       kanif is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.