Configure the LMT GUI

Configure the Lustre monitoring tool (LMT) graphic user interface (GUI) for CLE 6.x.

The Lustre monitoring tool (LMT) graphical user interface (GUI) package is installed on login nodes. It contains a GUI called lwatch and a command-line tool for viewing live data called lstat. The configuration file ~/.lmtrc must be set up prior to using either tool.

Edit the sample configuration file /usr/share/doc/packages/lmt-gui/sample.lmtrc to reflect the site specific LMT configuration—where db_name is set to the name of the MySQL database used by LMT, that is, filesystem_fsname.

# LMT Configuration File - place in $HOME/.lmtrc

filesys.1.name=<insert_fsname_here>
filesys.1.mountname=<insert_/path/to/mountpoint_here>
filesys.1.dbhost=<insert_db_host_ip_here>
filesys.1.dbport=<insert_db_port_here>
filesys.1.dbuser=<insert_db_client_username_here>
# Leave dbauth blank if the given client has no password
filesys.1.dbauth=<insert_db_client_password_here>
filesys.1.dbname=<insert_db_name_here>

Save the updated .lmtrc as ~/.lmtrc.
Here is an example for configuring access to the LMT database for the file system named scratch_1, which was set up so that the user lwatchclient has no password. In this example, access is being configured on the LMT server node, so the database is local. Thus, the db_host is localhost.
```
filesys.1.name=scratch_1
filesys.1.mountname=/lus/scratch_1
filesys.1.dbhost=localhost
filesys.1.dbport=3306
filesys.1.dbuser=lwatchclient
filesys.1.dbauth=
filesys.1.dbname=filesystem_scratch_1
```
After setting up ~/.lmtrc, lwatch and lstat can be run on this node. To run the GUI from a remote node, the MySQL database must be configured to allow remote access for the read-only user, lwatchclient. See Configure LMT MySQL for Remote Access.