Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I just updated our KVM docs (https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_Virtualization_with_KVM) with the following new info: - explained we need to set the nodehm.power and nodehm.mgt table fields to "kvm" - changed the order of the "lsvm" and "rpower" commands (so they can a

Re: [xcat-user] vncviewer does not accept my password

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Oh k, we figured out what the problem was! The clocks were wrong between my headnode and the hypervisor! Syncing them apparently does the trick! :o) According to our tests, the reason is that the getrvidparms command generates a new password that is only valid for 60 seconds (or something like th

Re: [xcat-user] Problem deploying Windows

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
I did some more tests on another system (where i setup windows deployment exactly the same way) and...in my new system everything works as expected! Here is what i found: - my system with Centos 6 and xCAT-server-2.6.2-snap201107280251.noarch works! - my system with Centos 5.6 and xCAT-server-2.6-

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Bruce, I just registered a new account - luismfsilva . Sourceforge gives you the option of logging in using OpenID so i thought that was enough (apparently it had worked...). Either way, I just went to the wiki again and authenticated with "luismfsilva". Thanks, Luis On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:54

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Bruce M Potter
Luis, I'd be happy to give you editor access to the xcat wiki. I don't think your sourceforge id luismiguelferreirasilva a\t gmail.com. It is just a simple userid. If you don't have one, get one at https://sourceforge.net/user/registration . Then you have to log in to the xcat wiki for your id

Re: [xcat-user] Adding blades into existing idataplex configuration

2011-08-03 Thread Bruce Pennypacker
Thanks. I thought I had done those steps but must have done them wrong. After repeating them it appears things are now working properly. -Bruce On 8/3/11 3:37 PM, Thomas Alandt wrote: > How about the rspconfig command, did you run that? > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?ti

Re: [xcat-user] Adding blades into existing idataplex configuration

2011-08-03 Thread Thomas Alandt
How about the rspconfig command, did you run that? http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_BladeCenter_Linux_Cluster rspconfig mm snmpcfg=enable sshcfg=enable rspconfig mm pd1=redwoperf pd2=redwoperf rpower mm reset Thomas Alandt WW Test Engineer Complex Solutions IBM-IS

[xcat-user] Adding blades into existing idataplex configuration

2011-08-03 Thread Bruce Pennypacker
I now have xcat pretty well set up for our new idataplex cluster. We now want to migrate some older bladecenter blades into the new cluster. I just tried defining the AMM for one of our bladecenters but xcat isn't able to communicate with it. Here's what I have defined in xcat: hosts: "clust

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Arif Ali
further diagnosis, thought to add nfs-gpfs.cluster.local as the alias instead, some differing, and some same results # tabdump hosts | grep gpfs "gpfs01","10.0.0.151","nfs-gpfs.cluster.local",,, "gpfs02","10.0.0.152","nfs-gpfs.cluster.local",,, "gpfs03","10.0.0.153","nfs-gpfs.cluster.local",,, "

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Arif Ali
Jarrod, I thought the same as well, the output was after a restart of named, anyhow, I have restarted again, and to confirm what the jnl files have, I have run strings against it, and it only mentions the gpfs0X nodes, and no nfs-gpfs. Basically this was on my test system, and I add these no

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
At that point, if you service named restart, does it magically pop up in the plain-text zone files? Or does the host command show the records without restarting? The .jnl files may hold the records and named restart will rewrite the plain text variants. From: Arif Ali To: xcat-user@lis

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Arif Ali
OK, update on this, makehosts does the right job "gpfs01","10.0.0.151","nfs-gpfs",,, "gpfs02","10.0.0.152","nfs-gpfs",,, "gpfs03","10.0.0.153","nfs-gpfs",,, "gpfs04","10.0.0.154","nfs-gpfs",,, /etc/hosts has the following 10.0.0.152 gpfs02 gpfs02.cluster.local nfs-gpfs 10.0.0.151 gpfs01 gpfs01.

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Lisa, I tried doing that and it forwarded me here -> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Editing_and_Downloading_xCAT_Documentation#Request_Editor_Access_to_the_Wiki . Apparently i need editor access. Can you help me with that? My sourceforge id is: luismiguelferreirasilva

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I will say that the 'virbr0' is largely ignored one way or another. Someone may call their bridge anything from 'br0' to 'xcatisawesome' (I tend to like 'default' for whatever reason). I am tempted to rip out virbr0 by default, as it has a high chance of trampling your production ip range if usin

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I can't recall if bind.pm had worked or not. In xCAT 1.x it worked, and in ddns.pm it was an explicit feature to cover, but it is possible that bind.pm overlooked this capability. From: Arif Ali To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 08/03/2011 10:40 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-us

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
Will do! Luis Miguel Silva On Aug 3, 2011, at 5:56 AM, Lissa Valletta wrote: > Please add this to the "discussion" section of the doc you want changed. > It is the button at the top of the page. It will get loss on the mailing > list. > > Lissa K. Valletta > 2-3/T12 > Poughkeepsie, NY 1260

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Arif Ali
I tried this a while back by adding multiple aliases in the hosts table, and then makehosts doesn't do the right thing. Even then when I add the relevant aliases in the /etc/hosts file, the bind.pm never did the right job, and always complained. Is this new eith ddns.pm, I will have a go at t

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
It sohuld work... Having multilpe ips with the same name in /etc/hosts is intended to work. makedns with or without noderange may be the difference. With a noderange, it currently might not work (though it should be fixable). From: Arif Ali To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 08/03/20

Re: [xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Arif Ali
+1, I was going to ask a similar question, and this question is asked by most of my customers as well, to achieve this. Is it worth opening a feature request, or is this something on the timeline regards, Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 3 August 2011 13:33, Yaron Dani

[xcat-user] DNS support for RR & LB records

2011-08-03 Thread Yaron Daniel
Hello All, I have in my cluster GPFS, and we configure CNFS on it. The current load balancing for CNFS is based on DNS round-robin, In order that the CNFS will work i will need to define multiple address records with the same host name The following sample shows a BIND configuration: cnfs.ibm.

Re: [xcat-user] Update KVM documentation

2011-08-03 Thread Lissa Valletta
Please add this to the "discussion" section of the doc you want changed. It is the button at the top of the page. It will get loss on the mailing list. Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Luis Miguel Silva To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 0