Warning

There are known security vulnerabilities in Open XDMoD versions ≤11.0.2. We strongly encourage upgrading immediately to the latest version of Open XDMoD, 11.0.3, which contains fixes for these vulnerabilities.

To upgrade version 8.1 to 11.0.3, you will first need to upgrade to version 8.5.0, then upgrade to version 9.0.0, then upgrade to version 9.5.0, then upgrade to version 10.0.3, then upgrade to version 10.5.1, then upgrade to version 11.0.3.

If you cannot upgrade immediately, you can follow the instructions below to manually patch your installation as a temporary workaround before upgrading later.

Workaround instructions
  1. First, make sure you are on the correct web page for your version of Open XDMoD. The web page you are on now is for version 8.1. Other versions' pages are linked below:
  2. Download the patch file for your version:
  3. Copy the patch file to your Open XDMoD web server.
  4. Make sure you have the patch command installed; it can be installed with dnf install patch.
  5. Apply the patch by running the command below, replacing [PATH_TO_XDMOD_SHARE_DIR] with the path to the share directory (/usr/share/xdmod for RPM-based installs, /opt/xdmod/share or another location for source code installs) and replacing [PATH_TO_PATCH_FILE] with the path to the patch file. 
    # patch -p1 -d [PATH_TO_XDMOD_SHARE_DIR] < [PATH_TO_PATCH_FILE]
  6. Upgrade to the latest version of Open XDMoD as soon as you can.

Installing → Database Guide

Open XDMoD uses several MySQL databases. These will be automatically be automatically created by the database section of the xdmod-setup command.

Manual Setup

Manual setup of the Open XDMoD database is not supported at this time.

Databases

moddb

Application data. Stores data used by the portal, including user data and reports.

modw

Data warehouse database.

modw_aggregates

Data warehouse aggregate database.

NOTE: The tables in this database are dynamically generated and are not created until the xdmod-ingestor command has performed aggregation on the data in modw.

modw_filters

Data warehouse filter lists.

NOTE: The tables in this database are dynamically generated and are not created until the xdmod-ingestor command has performed aggregation on the data in modw.

mod_logger

Logger database. Stores warnings and errors from various processes.

mod_shredder

Shredder database. Stores data from resource managers.

mod_hpcdb

Intermediate storage for data that has been normalized before being loaded into the data warehouse.