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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
> Then the thing turns to you need make sure the nodeset has been run correctly on your management node. Did you see the message like this? > : netboot sles11.2-x86_64-compute Actually, no, nodeset didn't return anything. I tried "nodeset xcat-serv1 install". The hyphen in the node name isn't pro

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
On startup, it looks at every database table and column it thinks should exist at the time. If it isn't there, it adds it. So in theory with fast enough kill, you could have a half-completed schema update, and it would still be ok since the next startup would just do the second half. If you hav

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Whew. Great! I thought I caused that by terminating the schema update early at first. So, speaking of which, would the schema update have completed when I launched it the next time? I'm still not clear on that. Would the xcat daemon just refuse to launch if it hadn't completed the schema update? T

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Suddenly the lsxcatd command is returning 2.8.3 to me now. I'm not sure why it would take time to update, but it looks fine now: [root@x3650-head01 init.d]# lsxcatd -a Version 2.8.3 (built Tue Nov 12 23:16:15 EST 2013) This is a Management Node cfgloc=mysql:dbname=xcatdb;host=10.X.X.X|xx dbeng

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Oh, I see where you were going with that now. Yes, I hunted down all remaining processes after that and manually killed them. Thanks. On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > Your old xcatd is probably still running. Do a "service xcatd stop", > then "ps aux | grep xcat" and kil

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Lissa Valletta
Unrecognized escape \h passed through at /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/zvmUtils.pm line 2408 is a known problem. You can ignore it. The file is only used on z-series. if you want to get rid of it mv /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/zvmUtils.pm /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/zvmUtils.pm.save and mv /opt/xcat/li

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Lissa Valletta
You do not have to stop xcatd the database or anything. Just don't be running any xcat commands. The upgrade will stop and start xcatd as needed. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Josh Nielsen To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date: 01/14/201

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Lissa Valletta
By the way you normally do not have to stop xcatd before upgrading. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Russell Jones To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net, Date: 01/14/2014 01:14 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prem

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Lissa Valletta
Two possibilities the daemon did not restart correctly and that has been common when upgrading from < 2.7.6 to higher levels. service xcatd stop ps -ef | grep xcatd kill -9 any hung xcatd processes service xcatd start The other thing is make sure your rpms are all at the 2.8.3 level. rpm -qa |

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Russell Jones
Your old xcatd is probably still running. Do a "service xcatd stop", then "ps aux | grep xcat" and kill any process still running. Then start xcatd back up and see what you get. On 1/14/2014 1:41 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: Unfortunately, no. Would the MySQL database have to be off as well? I th

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Unfortunately, no. Would the MySQL database have to be off as well? I thought the daemon might automatically restart after the upgrade, but you are right that I should have turned it off first. At this point things still work, but I am most confused about lsxcatd still returning 2.7.3 to me. Maybe

[xcat-user] Makedns seems to be broken in High Availability configured xCAT 2.8.3 cluster

2014-01-14 Thread Adam Emerich
"makedns " fails with the following message: "Ignoring host wbire1-en01, it does not belong to any nets defined in networks table or the net it belongs to is configured to use an external nameserver." After doing some digging, I discovered that the subroutine "my_ip_facing" in NetworkUtils.pm

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
FYI, that should be safe. The schema updates *within* 2.x have generally been backward compatible. The schema update is done (it checks the tables and columns instead of something like a version string), so you are good on that front. The error message you are getting is unrelated, would have t

Re: [xcat-user] bmc attribute confusion

2014-01-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
FYI, if you look at ipmi.pm, you'll see that it actually has some http support to get a java webstart file for imm. Having 'ipmi' branch on mfg/product ids to do non-ipmi stuff wouldn't be a terrible thing. Unfortunately, it's written in a pretty ugly way (totally my fault, I wrote the ugliest fa

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Russell Jones
Did you remember to stop the xcatd service before doing the upgrade? On 1/14/2014 12:02 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCAT lately. I was upgrading from xCAT 2.7.3 to 2.8.3, I grabbed the latest core and dep tarballs, and made local yum repos,

[xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCAT lately. I was upgrading from xCAT 2.7.3 to 2.8.3, I grabbed the latest core and dep tarballs, and made local yum repos, and installed all the newer packages from them. Then to check if the daemon had been upgraded I did an 'lsxcatd -v'

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

2014-01-14 Thread Lissa Valletta
When you run nodeset it will try and broadcast the command to any defined service nodes.We do a better job of checking whether we should broadcast in 2.8.3. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 From: Josh Nielsen To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date:

Re: [xcat-user] bmc attribute confusion

2014-01-14 Thread Russell Jones
Unfortunately that requires some hacking on the wvid script, and we are trying to avoid customizing default files so that future updates are much easier. We'll go forward with implementing nodehm.mgt=iKVM, nodehm.power=ipmi. That seems to work even though xCAT compla