Aegis-GPU

1.2 Monitoring with Base View

NCP-AIO · Installation and Deployment (31% of the exam) · Official objective: “Use BCM’s Base View interface to monitor cluster performance, resource utilization, and node health in real time.”

How to reach Base View and read cluster health and GPU use at a glance.

Key points

  1. Base View is the browser interface to BCM. cmsh is the command-line interface to the same system. Both talk to CMDaemon, BCM's management daemon.

    What NVIDIA says (2)

    “Base View is the web application front end to cluster management in BCM.”

    — NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

    “https://<host name or IP address>:8081/base-view”

    — NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

  2. The overview page is the default view after login. It summarizes the cluster's state, including resources up or down, health checks and GPU usage.

    What NVIDIA says (2)

    “GPU usage information (includes temperature, power).”

    — NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

    “By default an overview window is displayed, corresponding to the navigation path Cluster > Overview”

    — NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

Key terms

Sample question

What is Base View, and how do you reach it by default?

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Answer: BCM's web front end for cluster management, at https://<head node>:8081/base-view

Base View is the browser interface to BCM. cmsh is the command-line interface to the same system. Both talk to CMDaemon, BCM's management daemon.

What NVIDIA says (2)

“Base View is the web application front end to cluster management in BCM.”

— NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

“https://<host name or IP address>:8081/base-view”

— NVIDIA Base Command Manager 11 Administrator Manual (PDF)

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