Re: [xcat-user] Some Progress -- Re: modern xCAT on not-so-modern BladeCenter (8677) ?

2011-08-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
The challenge is that the MM was a fairly different beast, and was already not being sold when the xCAT 2.0 plugin was written for the first time... If you manually configure SNMP via the web interface, what sorts of options are available? can it do snmpv3, des privacy, sha auth? On Fri, Aug 12,

[xcat-user] Some Progress -- Re: modern xCAT on not-so-modern BladeCenter (8677) ?

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Prewett
Hello, I spent quite a bit of time hacking on the SSH connectivity problem. After seeing posts (to the xcat mailing list!) about a similar issue where more modern SSH clients were failing to connect to the BladeCenter MMs. Some fixes were suggested (involving IIRC *not* sending environment

Re: [xcat-user] modern xCAT on not-so-modern BladeCenter (8677) ?

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Prewett
Hi Lissa, We're in the process of upgrading this system to SLES 11 and I'm using xCAT from the yum repos on Sourceforge, namely http://xcat.sourceforge.net/yum/xcat-core/xCAT-core.repo and http://xcat.sourceforge.net/yum/xcat-dep/sles11/x86/xCAT-dep.repo Jim James E. Prewett

Re: [xcat-user] modern xCAT on not-so-modern BladeCenter (8677) ?

2011-08-12 Thread Lissa Valletta
So what level of xCAT and OS are you running. You said you had not upgraded in 5 years. Are you even running xCAT 2x? We only use ssh on Linux. Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Jim Prewett To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 08/11/2011 04:2

Re: [xcat-user] Is there a Java client for xCAT

2011-08-12 Thread Lissa Valletta
Still being designed and implemented. Lissa K. Valletta 2-3/T12 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Luis Miguel Silva To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 08/12/2011 05:46 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] Is there a Java client for xCAT If it was already available, yes

Re: [xcat-user] My vmware esxi4.1 netbooted images never changed their nodelist.status

2011-08-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
grep shadow /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/esx.pm Yqu'll see that the plugin currently makes a tarball of various files (including init scripts) to overlay on the image. Modifying that code to iterate through a tree may make sense. Another option is to dump your custom files in a tar ball and pu

Re: [xcat-user] Is there a Java client for xCAT

2011-08-12 Thread Luis Miguel Silva
If it was already available, yes! Any idea when it will be coming out? Thanks, Luis Miguel Silva On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:00 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > xCAT is planing to create a REST api that can be called from http server. Is > it helpful to you? > > Refer to: > https://sourceforge.net/apps

Re: [xcat-user] Is there a Java client for xCAT

2011-08-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
xCAT is planing to create a REST api that can be called from http server. Is it helpful to you? Refer to: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=REST_API_v2 Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM Ch

Re: [xcat-user] My vmware esxi4.1 netbooted images never changed their nodelist.status

2011-08-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
Could you check what will happen that run '/bin/echo installstatus bootedpost | /bin/nc 10.1.3.254 3002' after the installation on the node? If it does work, you need to make sure whether the command has been run during the installation. Add a line to generate a file in %post section to see whether