[xcat-user] IRC channel

Hi all, We had an IRC channel on freenode, although with not much activity over the last few years. However, with all the debacle of the freenode, I changed the topic that we were potentially moving to libera, and the freenode staff banned the channel and took it over. So if you're looking

Re: [xcat-user] What is the difference of pkglist and otherpkglist

I need to install some softwares from OpenHPC repository and I'm in doubt about which one to use,  pkglist/dir or otherpkglist/dir? What is the difference between this two? Hi Daniel, This is by no means a way that xCAT guys document it, but this is how we do it, and how we see things

Re: [xcat-user] Image Sync from node

Hi Antoine, You can use the SystemImager method to do this, the documentation for this can be seen in the link below. This has been used for one of our customers, and seems to work well. https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/sysclone/sysclone.html regards, Arif On 26/09/2018

Re: [xcat-user] update xCAT genesis kernel

-base-x86_64-2.13ocf-snap201711221628.noarch.rpm I hope this works for you regards, Arif On 21/11/2017 19:33, Imam Toufique wrote: > Thanks, Arif! > > Is there any documentation on building and install genesis?  Can you > share, please?  > > thanks. > > > > On Tue,

Re: [xcat-user] update xCAT genesis kernel

Hi all, I have pinged that issue on github, hopefully there will be a new genesis for us in 2.13.9 I did build a genesis in December last year, with a few extras for centos7 here, http://yum.ocf.co.uk/rh7/xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64-2.13ocf-snap201612061622.noarch.rpm, if anyone is interested

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.13.5 is released!

Hi Ting, The link is pointing to the 2.13.2 release notes ;) From: Ting Ting TT Li Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: Friday, 30 June 2017 at 08:52 To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject:

Re: [xcat-user] Upgraded to xcat 2.13.2 - addkcmdline being ignored now

Hi Russell, I have seen similar issues, can you answer 2 questions 1. What type is your osimage, stateful/stateless 2. What is in your addkcmdline Regards, Arif On 12/04/2017, 21:18, "Russell Jones" wrote: Hi all, Has there been a chance with now xCAT

Re: [xcat-user] missing entries in /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets

Hi Lloyd, Try running "mknb x86_64", this should create these files for you regards, Arif On 25/01/2017 20:45, Lloyd Brown wrote: > I'm just getting started testing xcat, so please don't laugh if this is > too simple of a question. > > I've got a demo xcat MN, and I'm to the point of trying to

Re: [xcat-user] problem when booting node from disk after install

over uefi. @devs, is there a way to force the -u all the time? without having to set this manually on the CLI? regards, Arif Ali Technical Director OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk <http://www.ocf.co.uk> Blog: http:

Re: [xcat-user] [xcat-users] Deploying Ubuntu server software raid 0

Hi Oscar, From my experience, the partitionfile variable only takes one argument, so you may want to add everything in one file, and then point to it that way. After that, hopefully, as long as the definitions are correct based on preseed, it should work. regards, Arif On 28/09/2016

Re: [xcat-user] Boot order changed after CentOS install on Lenovo 3550

I had a similar issue this week. I had to change the settings through ASU to do the following BootModes.SystemBootMode=UEFI Mode Otherwise the machine would not boot. I tried my usual ASU settings, but couldnt get it to work I had 2 racks working, and one not. And the above command resolved

Re: [xcat-user] Deletion of old distribution CDs

local repo files /install/postscripts/repos/osname.osver, you could safely delete that as well regards, Arif Ali Technical Director OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk <http://www.ocf.co.uk/> Blog: http://blog.ocf.co.uk

Re: [xcat-user] Problem launching deployment

Hi Laurent, > As suggested I check the two tables : > $ tabdump noderes > #node,servicenode,netboot,tftpserver,tftpdir,nfsserver,monserver,nfsdir,installnic,primarynic,discoverynics,cmdinterface,xcatmaster,current_osimage,next_osimage,nimserver,routenames,nameservers,proxydhcp,comments,disable >

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.10 non-node DHCP assigenment and more questions

Hi Mark, Good to see you on-board All the latest docs are located on the new documentation site readthedocs [1], but you may want to start on sourceforge [2], but note that a lot of the ducmentation currently is being migrated from sourceforge to readthedocs. To answer your questions, see

Re: [xcat-user] The logo of xCAT

Thomas, You'll see it here ... https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/blob/master/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage#L1062 I agree with Rich and Christian, I like the old logo, but needs a bit of work,. Unfortunately for me, the new one doesn't seem to catch me On 13/10/15 15:42, Thomas

Re: [xcat-user] how to exclude some ofed packages being installed with genimage

Hi Damir, I normally create an ofed.conf file, and then use the –c option with the mlnxofedinstall script. You can find a sample file in the docs/conf folder, you should be able to find some sample files for that. So in essence, then within the profile.postinstall you would append “-c

Re: [xcat-user] Move package repositories?

I had a look at copr yesterday, and made a few mods that I could get working. COPR allows you to do stuff on ppc64le, and the build was successfully done on the platform See below for details https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/4703/ regards, Arif Ali Technical Director OCF plc Tel: +44 (0

Re: [xcat-user] Updating Image xcat Howto

On 02/04/15 10:37, Langton wrote: I need to update the xcat image with rpms during post installation. Please advise on step by step on how to accomplish this task. Hi Langton, There is a lot of documentation on the xcat sourceforge site, https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/documentation/, you find

Re: [xcat-user] download issues?

Try one of the sourceforge mirrors here ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/x/xc/xcat/ -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 2 February 2015 at 22:44, Douglas Myers dgmy...@us.ibm.com wrote: I've been trying off

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

of github or gitlab, primarily due to the fact it will allow more visibility as well it will be easier for people to contribute with the pull/merge requests, and it having the ability to do that with a click of a button regards, Arif Ali Technical Director OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob

Re: [xcat-user] Xcat2 and centos7 to deploy a new cluster

=linux_sw_drivers I'd agree with both sides of the argument, and it really depends on yourself on how much you are happy with new software, and happy to resolve any issues that arise regards, Arif Ali Technical Director OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022

Re: [xcat-user] SC14

I'm at the SC14, and there is a screen on the Lenovo stand which mentions xCAT, and I did see confluent as a Web GUI on one of laptops that was next to the screen regards, Arif Ali Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257

Re: [xcat-user] Erro installing with Intel SATA controller

=var --vgname=system --size=40960 # I hope that makes sense Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali -- Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers

Re: [xcat-user] Release notes?

I think the mediawiki on sourceforge is not working for xCAT regards, Arif Ali Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk http://www.ocf.co.uk Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk http://blog.ocf.co.uk Twitter: @ocfplc

Re: [xcat-user] Multiple management node

6.5 the HA software on redhat was technology review, and therefore they made some changed in between. I am hoping that it doesn't get changed after this. regards, Arif Ali Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web

Re: [xcat-user] consoleondemand for only some nodes?

further from this, Would you happy for this to go into 2.8 branch? regards, Arif -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 13 February 2014 07:58, Guang Cheng Li ligua...@cn.ibm.com wrote: HI Arif, Thanks for contributing the idea and code

Re: [xcat-user] console escape sequences to support

mode; so Ctrl-E c f, resolved that for me. I don't think I've that many requests wrt shared read/write access to the console; from my aspect, just create some new escape sequences, and I guess we'll go with them regards, Arif Ali Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200

Re: [xcat-user] consoleondemand for only some nodes?

Hi Guang, 1. Do we want to make the consoleondemand be a node attribute? If yes, we can update the arry @nodeattrs in the Schema.pm, the array includes all the node attributes are used by *def commands. Already there, check line 1898-1901 on the Schema.pm in the patch Below is the output of

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT HA documentation

) The customer even installed the Primary MN with the secondary, and it was successful. So thanks again for the xCAT team for all the original docs. regards, Arif -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 21 August 2013 02:29, Guang Cheng Li ligua...@cn.ibm.com

Re: [xcat-user] consoleondemand for only some nodes?

Hi Lissa, Here's the feature request https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/feature-requests/167 I have uploaded a patch as a first stab at it, let me know what you think regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior

Re: [xcat-user] consoleondemand for only some nodes?

That would be a very useful feature actually; maybe we can request that?? or is it not possible? regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200

Re: [xcat-user] conserver issues

all lost on what the issue might be regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257

Re: [xcat-user] conserver issues

to view the console. I am just waiting to get the details from the customer, so once received I will forward on the details wrt to the certificate details. regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc

Re: [xcat-user] makedns issue

Jing, The purpose of having multiple entries including SN in networks.nameservers is so that if the MN goes down, then we still have a SN to be able to get DNS and host resolution. I hope that makes sense. Would it make sense to allow this? regards, Arif -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali

Re: [xcat-user] makedns issue

quite go as planned. regards, Arif -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 22 October 2013 09:20, Jing CDL Sun sj...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Forgot to mention, you could refer to https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title

[xcat-user] makedns issue

, and then reverted back to get back the relevant DNS in named back I hope that makes sense. -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali -- October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel

[xcat-user] xCAT HA documentation

repositories? regards, -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT HA documentation

db_xCAT xCAT pcs constraint order promote drbd_xCAT_master then start grp_xCAT -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 20 August 2013 18:20, Lindsay Todd rltodd@gmail.com wrote: Speaking as an xCAT user... We run an HA-xCAT management node

Re: [xcat-user] Git repository

not sure which might be the reason ( or both) I am getting mail. git config --global user.email y...@yourdomain.example.com Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 [image: Inactive hide details for Arif Ali ---08/08/2013 09:46:54 AM---The xcat-commit mailing list

Re: [xcat-user] Git repository

The xcat-commit mailing list is no longer receiving any mails, is this expected, or is there any other way to monitor all the commits now that the git is being used? -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali On 27 July 2013 15:52, Bruce M Potter b

Re: [xcat-user] tftpboot issue

will be removed, please backup your dhcpd.conf if that is the case) 2) If you do have the nbroot/nbkernel rpms installed, then you will need to run mknb x86_64, and then these files should appear. nevertheless, if any of these don't work, send us the version of xCAT by running lsxcatd -v -- Arif Ali

[xcat-user] #xcat IRC channel on freenode

to the fact at most we get 10 people on the channel. Let me know your thoughts -- Arif Ali IRC: arif-ali at freenode LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/arifali -- See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

@@ ;; status) $STATUS conserver +exit $? ;; restart) $STATUS conserver /dev/null -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 22 May 2013 15:57, Lindsay Todd rltodd@gmail.com wrote: Arif, I know you did say you made the changes to the conserver script

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

conserver ++return $? ;; restart) -echo -n Restarting conserver: -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 23 May 2013 11:39, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that Lindsay, The LSB compliance did help, and went through all the steps

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

Apologis for the confusion, This is redhat we are testing on, and the patch is actually for redhat, I just updated the patch for the ubuntu one as well, thinking that it would need some kind of LSB stuff as well, look down the patch, the same diff for redhat and ubuntu -- Arif Ali catch me

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

. Hope this helps. /Lindsay On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 2:27 PM, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: Hi team, I am working on getting an image working such that I can do HA asdescribedin the docs.

Re: [xcat-user] sequential discovery issue

what about supporting any hostname that is defined in the ipmi table, and not necessarily node-bmc, or is this the limitation at the moment we are trying to keep? -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 22 May 2013 16:05, Xiao Peng Wang w...@cn.ibm.com wrote: Arif

[xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

LSB compatible; I have made the relevant changes, but still having some problems. As soon as conserver is removed from the corosync configs, it seems all good. I would very much like to hear your experiences, and any other gotchas -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali

Re: [xcat-user] sequential discovery issue

=xcat_nw nictypes.bmc=ipmi regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022

Re: [xcat-user] sequential discovery issue

Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 Arif Ali ---2013/05/16 22:30:42---Hi Xiao, If you look at the lsdef, you will see that I have set the IP address

[xcat-user] sequential discovery issue

Which is I think inefficient, especially everything is already defined in the xCAT database -- regards, Arif Ali MBCS Senior HPC Technical Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk http://www.ocf.co.uk Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk

Re: [xcat-user] LEGACY ONLY or not

Hi Antoine, This is the default behaviour of the nodes that have uEFI, i.e. if you pxe boot using the uefi, then the default boot options get changed to the HDD i.e. redhat. I personally change the rinstall script in /opt/xcat/bin to add a rsetboot

[xcat-user] problem with service nodes in xCAT 2.8

and the SN. SSL is my weak point unfortunately and not sure where to start debugging. Any help on this would be very useful. -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali -- Precog is a next-generation analytics

Re: [xcat-user] Help with old-style provisioning

Have you tried using the addkcmdline parameter instead On 6 Apr 2013 17:14, Russell Auld russa...@comcast.net wrote: I tried modifying the kcmdline field in the bootparams table, but when I ran update node install=compute I'm pretty sure that the kcmdline got overwritten. So it seemed that

[xcat-user] rinstall/nodeset compatibilities

All, Now that I have started moving away from the old method of creating images, and moving towards osimage, The rinstall now would be buggy, as that will not work anymore. i.e. line 52 is below $rc=system(nodeset $noderange install); Correct me if I am wrong, If we now had osimage generated,

Re: [xcat-user] rinstall/nodeset compatibilities

uick_Start Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Arif Ali ---04/03/2013 06:31:00 AM---All, Now that I have started moving away from the old method of creating From

Re: [xcat-user] storage template for rhel

/scripts/post.rh# -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 13 March 2013 17:06, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: The following patch needs doing, as these variable are no longer supported in the kickstart. Also the storage.pglist needs to be moved to storage.pkglist

Re: [xcat-user] Trouble booting OS on iDataPlex node

Hi James, For this you may want to utilise the dhcpinterfaces variable in the site table, as described in the following URL http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start#Setup_DHCP i.e. if your internal internal interface is eth0, then you need

Re: [xcat-user] Feature request - rpower next boot from

Just hijacking an old thread, Did we decide that it would be a good idea to add this to the rinstall command such that it is like the following --- rinstall.old 2013-02-27 17:27:49.103600722 + +++ rinstall 2013-02-27 16:37:32.488635413 +

Re: [xcat-user] ipmi commands not working if used as rXXX comands, but work as ipmitool-xcat commands

hmm, cool We have some customers with SuperMicro BMCs, I'll give that a test as well, and report back I always reverted to ipmi.pm.legacy regards, Arif Ali MBCS HPC Systems Architect OCF plc

Re: [xcat-user] dns error

Hi list, I seem to be having the same problem at one of the customer sites I have been trying to play with the numreqs value in the ddns.pm, but nothing seems to solve the problem. We have approx 2000 hosts in /etc/hosts, (The hostnames have - in the name, could this be a cause?) I have

Re: [xcat-user] dns error

was NOTZONE Completed updating DNS records. named has been enabled on boot. DNS setup is completed regards, Arif Ali MBCS HPC Systems Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk http://www.ocf.co.uk Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk http

Re: [xcat-user] dns error

you with the specifics, so that it makes more sense regards, Arif Ali MBCS HPC Systems Architect OCF plc Tel: +44 (0)114 257 2200 Mob: +44 (0)7970 148 122 Fax: +44 (0)114 257 0022 Web: www.ocf.co.uk http://www.ocf.co.uk Blog: blog.ocf.co.uk http://blog.ocf.co.uk Twitter: @ocfplc http://twitter.com

Re: [xcat-user] request for editor access to the wiki

Gerd, Since the inception of xCAT 2, I have successfully used xCAT on the following vendors IBM Dell Oracle (Sun) Fujitsu SuperMicro Intel You shouldn't have any problems with the Dells, they seem to work very well, as long as you follow the iDataPlex documentation I know that the HP and

Re: [xcat-user] DHCP Listening Interface

-- Processing Dependency: xCAT-genesis-x86_64 for package: xCAT-2.7.5-snap201210162320.x86_64 -- Processing Dependency: elilo-xcat for package: xCAT-2.7.5-snap201210162320.x86_64 -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: xCAT-2.7.5-snap201210162320.x86_64 (xcat-2-core)

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi 5.1 with xCAT

,addsiteyum,setupntp primarynic=eth0 profile=compute provmethod=install serialflow=115200 serialspeed=0 status=booted statustime=09-07-2012 16:49:28 supportedarchs=x86_64,x86 vmhost=sandbox01 vmnics=vmn0 vmstorage=vmfs://datastore1 -- Arif Ali catch me

Re: [xcat-user] Various xCAT issues and questions

On 21 September 2012 10:30, Jonathan Barber jonathan.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2012 19:33, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: On 20 September 2012 18:08, Jonathan Barber jonathan.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2012 17:04, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: [snip

Re: [xcat-user] Various xCAT issues and questions

I am currently installing a cluster with SL6.3, and my comments on the questions in line below, with my 2 cents #0 - Yes, xcatconfig is trying to restart the nfs service for the first installing to export the /install directory. But the problem is that could you run 'service nfs restart'

Re: [xcat-user] Various xCAT issues and questions

On 20 September 2012 18:08, Jonathan Barber jonathan.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2012 17:04, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: I am currently installing a cluster with SL6.3, and my comments on the questions in line below, with my 2 cents #0 - Yes, xcatconfig is trying

Re: [xcat-user] On install ssh_host keys are not properly set

On 25/06/12 13:08, Lissa Valletta wrote: The first problem is why the postscripts did not run during the install. One typical cause of this is if any file in /install/postscripts or it's subdirectories is not world-readable (0744) is

Re: [xcat-user] how can I setup ssh no password for no root user

* GSSAPIAuthentication yes # If this option is set to yes then remote X11 clients will have full access # to the original X11 display. As virtually no X11 client supports the untrusted -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 21 June 2012 07:35, m13601078155 m13601078

Re: [xcat-user] Node discovery/ASU issue (was xCAT 2.7.2 is released)

be seeing is that the configuration is actually taking place, but only dedicated on the IMM port. Once you make the modification, re-do the discovery process, and see if it goes to plan regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 28 May 2012 20:45, smithjohn paradise

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.7.2 is released

is that the configuration is actually taking place, but only dedicated on the IMM port. Once you make the modification, re-do the discovery process, and see if it goes to plan regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 28 May 2012 20:45, smithjohn paradise@hotmail.com wrote

[xcat-user] nodegroup support with postscripts

=' . $groups . '\n; +push @scriptd, export GROUPS\n; +} + #get vlan related items my $vlan; my $swtab = xCAT::Table-new(switch, -create = 0); -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali

Re: [xcat-user] updatenode otherpkgs doesn't work

You need to run the following command instead updatenode node3 ospkgs regards, Arif On 22/05/12 17:27, Luis Cabellos wrote: Hi, I configuring the Mellanox Driver for an already installed node

Re: [xcat-user] nodegroup support with postscripts

soon enough. --- Albert Einstein From: Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk To: Mailing list, xCAT xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 05/22/2012 10:45 AM Subject: [xcat-user] nodegroup support with postscripts Hi all, I

Re: [xcat-user] vLAN on ipmi interface

winner ;) worked like a dream thanks for the such quick response rebooted 42 nodes, and voila, all done in a flash -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 1 May 2012 21:42, Jarrod B Johnson jbjoh...@us.ibm.com wrote: I've attached files from trunk to replace /opt

Re: [xcat-user] genesis bug maybe in 2.7

!= unknown ]; then -echo serial$SERIAL/serial +echo serial$SERIAL/serial /tmp/discopacket fi for dev in `ip link|grep -B1 ether|grep UP|awk '{print $2}'|sed -e s/://`; do DRIVER=`grep DRIVER /sys/class/net/$dev/device/uevent|awk -F= '{print $2}'` regards, -- Arif Ali catch me

Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu Support

on from there, and get some sufficient info on there for people to get started. regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 24 April 2012 02:13, Bruce M Potter b...@us.ibm.com wrote: Arif, I created the folder https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/ubuntu

Re: [xcat-user] genesis bug maybe in 2.7

=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name|awk -F'[' '{print $2}'|awk -F']' '{print $1}'` +SERIAL=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_serial` fi elif [ -r /proc/device-tree/model ]; then #POWER MTM=`cat /proc/device-tree/model |awk -F, '{print $2}'` -- Arif Ali catch me

Re: [xcat-user] IBM M4 nodes

nstall all the nodes. When doing so in the fashion "nodeset node001-node050", this will end up failing. I don't remember being the case previously. I will get more info on this if required Arif Ali ---04/19/2012 02:54:36 PM---All, For anyone

Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu Support

Hi Bruce, I have them available at the URLs below http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-core-ubuntu.tar.bz2 http://arif-ali.co.uk/xcat-dep-ubuntu.tar.bz2 let me know how you want to proceed. I have been able to provision rhels6.2 from these debs; need to do further testing soon regards, -- Arif Ali

Re: [xcat-user] Persistent custom option in /etc/dhcpd.conf

like to be able to add another domain to search; i.e. option domain-name cluster.company.co.uk company.co.uk This then allows for both domains to come under resolv.conf and search both domains. Jarrod, would your idea on the additional parameter in the site table solve this problem. -- Arif Ali

[xcat-user] Ubuntu Support

then please forward ideas through. If anyone is on IRC in the #xcat channel, I am usually available on there for anyone who wants to contact me really quickly regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali

Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu Support

the next 2 weeks I will be back to where I was 18 months ago with the current release structure, and will have a el5 and ubuntu MN that are able to do the same thing again. regards, Arif On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: All, Just starting this thread to start

Re: [xcat-user] genesis bug maybe in 2.7

by the 2.6.32 kernel... I'll double check in my environment as well... On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk mailto:m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: Hi all, It seems that we have a bug with genesis, where it is not loading the runimage. The error relates to not giving

Re: [xcat-user] genesis bug maybe in 2.7

by the 2.6.32 kernel... I'll double check in my environment as well... On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Arif Ali m...@arif-ali.co.uk mailto:m...@arif-ali.co.uk wrote: Hi all, It seems that we have a bug with genesis, where it is not loading the runimage. The error relates to not giving

Re: [xcat-user] synchronizing files under /opt/xcat/ between mn and service node

that helps regards, Arif -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 15 February 2012 21:18, John Griffin-Wiesner joh...@msi.umn.edu wrote: Hello. I've set up a service node, and all is working well except for the otherpkgs postscript to nodes served by the service node

Re: [xcat-user] problem with makedns during xCAT install process

as the nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf make sure you can resolve your hostname via gethostip make sure xCAT has been restarted when your hostname is correctly identified by xCAT Then run makedns -n I hope that helps, regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 2 February 2012

Re: [xcat-user] Yum repositories for compute nodes.

I would agree with this. I have my own scripts that deleted the CentOS*.repo, and sl-*.repo from yum.repos.d; didn't really take note that xCAT already did it. maybe have some kind of test against OSVER, and remove the relevant repos for the specific OSs. regards, *Arif* On 10/01/12

Re: [xcat-user] New location for yum repository of xCAT trunk

I synchronise with the folders on sourceforge locally to one of our servers, Does the ssh folder stay the same, or has that changed, I am synchronising from /home/groups/x/xc/xcat/htdocs/yum/ regards, -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 5 January 2012 18:04, Bruce M

Re: [xcat-user] nagios config files

://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/distributed.html wrt to the parent under the host config, one of the features here is that it able to draw a nice map in the Nagios Interface; That is the only purpose I have used the parent/child feature of the nagios host declaration -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC

Re: [xcat-user] IP address is dhcp?

use the hardeths postinstall script regards, *Arif* On 15/11/11 13:08, m13601078155 wrote: When I installed the server by the xCAT 2.0 , the server's IP address still is dhcp in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. I want to know how to set up the static IP address by xCAT during

Re: [xcat-user] nbfs replacement name

On 06/09/11 23:57, Jarrod Johnson wrote: Anyone have a preference? So far I have received xEROS (xCAT Embedded Remote Operating System) Genesis (Genesis Enhanced Netboot Environment for System Information and Servicing) xCITE (xCAT Configuration, Information, and Troubleshooting Environment)

Re: [xcat-user] The syslog postscript

Maybe for both of these options, we could put the code in the syslog postscript, but have it do those things only if you specify parameters to the postscript. (Parameters to postscripts are now supported.) Paramaters??? wow Where, how can we do this, that would be really nice, is this in

Re: [xcat-user] The syslog postscript

+1 on appending of syslog, rather than removing alltogether -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 23 August 2011 20:20, Eduardo Otubo ot...@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote: On 08/16/2011 05:46 PM, Bruce M Potter wrote: Eduardo, If you look at the svn revision # of xCAT

Re: [xcat-user] Problem with makedns

Hi Robert, * Set-up the /etc/resolv.conf correctly to point to the MN * make sure /var/named has permissions named:named * make suer selinux is turned off * run makedhcp -n I hope that helps Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 22/08/11 16:43, Robert W Krull wrote: Hi

Re: [xcat-user] Upgrade from xCAT 2.5 to 2.6 - Dynamic DNS broke

I'm going to have to give my self a slap on the hand, SElinux was turned on! (How many times do i tell customers to turn off SELinux, and now I do it myself, duh!!!) sorry for all the e-mails wrt to this issue, and thanks for the diagnosis regards, Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC

[xcat-user] makeknownhost

:05.0 +0100 @@ -248,7 +248,6 @@ xCAT::MsgUtils-message(E, $rsp, $callback, 1); return 1; } -chop($ip_address); if (defined $hostname) { -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali attachment: mail.vcf smime.p7s Description: S/MIME

[xcat-user] xcatd logging/debugging

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