Re: [xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare

2014-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
You saw the discovery message was because of the node configuration was not finished yet. After running 'nodeset' and start the node deployment, the discovery message won't show again. Regarding the discovery, you can use 'sequential discovery' to discover virtual node. Refer to: https://sourcefor

Re: [xcat-user] Policy table question

2014-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
What I can think of is the user/certificates/permission things are not correct on your service node. Try to run 'rpower' or 'lsdef' on service node directly and check the syslog to see the xCAT log like this 'xCAT: Allowing lsdef for from xxx' to get the current user. Thanks Best Regards

Re: [xcat-user] bmc attribute confusion

2014-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
xCAT assumes that using 'mgt=ipmi' for all bmc related management, that means 'ipmi.pm' plugin will be used for bmc related management. What's the problem in your case if setting 'mgt=ipmi'? Thanks Best Regards -- Wang Xiaopeng

Re: [xcat-user] networks.dhcpserver

2014-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
From my understanding the networks.dhcpserver is used with networks.dynamicrange. Since the dynamicrange in a service node pool cannot be configured in multiple dhcp servers, use networks.dhcpserver to specify the dhcp server which is enabling the dynamicrange. Thanks Best Regards

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-12 Thread Xiao Peng Wang
To enable DHCP service on SN can be done by configuring the servicenode table or setupdhcp attribute of SN node. To enable DNS service which can be running without MN, you need to enable DSN server on SN in slave mode. It will available in 2.8.4 realease. Refer to Option #3.2 in https://sourceforg