# ADM Administration Learn about administrating an HPC cluster and remember many basics about servers and other equipment. ## Requirements ## Learning Outcomes * Review theoretic principles such as hardware components, networking, boot process, monitoring, cluster management, and user management. * Summarize Linux network configuration, and investigate NFS, virtualisation and cooling options * Describe cluster management with specific tools and investigate workload managers, different types of images as well as deployment, monitoring and IPMI * Classify software stacks and review installing of software, containers and software containerisation, as well as user installs * Identify Snakemake's capabilities for configuring its behaviour across a cluster environment and configure a cluster-wide configuration ## Subskills * [[skill-tree:adm:1:b]] * [[skill-tree:adm:2:b]] * [[skill-tree:adm:3:b]] * [[skill-tree:adm:4:b]] * [[skill-tree:adm:5:b]]