[xcat-user] Statelite - NFS client cache

2012-06-14 Thread Eric Chennells
Hello, In the xCAT manual it is mentioned that "NFS caching on the client helps reduce the network traffic". Does anyone know where this is configured? I can't find anything in the docs about it. Thanks, Eric Notice of Confidentiality: The information transmitted is intended only for the p

Re: [xcat-user] IBM HS23 Blades

2012-06-14 Thread Ling Gao
If you already have the mac address defined in the mac table for the nodes, you can set both installnic and primarynic to "mac". This works with 2.6 and 2.7, not sure about 2.5. But worth to try. After the change, run makedhcp and nodeset, then boot up the node. Ling Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Un

[xcat-user] mktoolscenter errors

2012-06-14 Thread Bruce Pennypacker
I'm trying to upgrade the firmware in my bladecenter & idataplex nodes using the information posted at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Updating_Firmware_with_Bootable_Media_Creator. I downloaded ibm_utl_asu_asut77g-9.20_linux_x86-64.tgz and ibm_utl_bomc_9.20_rhel5_

[xcat-user] IBM HS23 Blades

2012-06-14 Thread Stephen Fralich
I'm trying to set up some new HS23 blades to boot a stateless image. The issue I'm running into is that xcat sees the boot interface as eth0, but Linux sees the boot interface as eth2. What I mean is if I set installnic and primarynic to eth2, getmacs retrieves the wrong mac address. If I set th