Re: [xcat-user] Is xcat 2.6.1 broken for centos 5.6 x64?

2011-07-19 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I added some responses starts with below. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wa

Re: [xcat-user] Confused regarding service node pools and defining specific service nodes

2011-07-19 Thread Dave Barry
Linda and Lissa, You all have been extremely helpful, thank you very much! I've just about got all of this worked out in my head. Just one final minor question. In a service node pool architecture, if I wanted a specific group of nodes to only be able to netboot from a specific group of service no

Re: [xcat-user] makedns problem

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Crusan
On Jul 12, 2011, at 2:57 PM, Lissa Valletta wrote: > > > The optional ddns plugin available for dynamic DNS support from xCAT 2.5 is > not optional anymore. It is the only one shipped and supported as of 2.6. > > If you want to use it, you need to run > chtab key=dnshandler site.value=ddns >

[xcat-user] Is xcat 2.6.1 broken for centos 5.6 x64?

2011-07-19 Thread dani
Hi, Several issues: 1) yaboot-xcat. had to manually install older version I downloaded (wget http://xcat.sourceforge.net/yum/xcat-dep/yaboot-xcat-1.3.15-05262010.noarch.rpm ; yum install yaboot-xcat*rpm ; yum install xcat), to continue installation. I don't need yaboot at all on a centos-only

Re: [xcat-user] Confused regarding service node pools and defining specific service nodes

2011-07-19 Thread Lissa Valletta
nodeset < noderange> broadcasts to all service nodes and then each service node sees if one of the nodes in the noderange belongs to it. That is why you see it go to all service nodes, they don't necessarily do any work. Assigning a compute node to more than one service node is using pools. That

Re: [xcat-user] Confused regarding service node pools and defining specific service nodes

2011-07-19 Thread Linda Mellor
Dave, Let me try to explain a little more for you. I understand all the questions and that this can be confusing -- xCAT can behave differently based on various settings, and it's difficult for us to document this well for all cases. First, some attributes that are of interest: site attributes:

Re: [xcat-user] Confused regarding service node pools and defining specific service nodes

2011-07-19 Thread Dave Barry
Hi Lissa, Thanks for the help and clarification! I've been able to get service nodes operating properly, just trying to understand some of my questions better. Let me see if I can help clarify and perhaps simplify the questions. I know some of my email appeared to be rambling :-) * My first quest

Re: [xcat-user] Confused regarding service node pools and defining specific service nodes

2011-07-19 Thread Lissa Valletta
For either nodes assigned to a specific service node or a pool of service nodes, you always run the commands on the Management Node. xCAT will figure out which service node will run the command and automatically send it there. You do not run these commands on the Service Node yourself in eit

[xcat-user] help

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