Re: [xcat-user] Upgrading an HA xCAT configuration

2014-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Lang
The cluster is not hierarchical, if I understand your question. Two management nodes, running RHEL 6.3, with DRBD and Corosync/Pacmaker. DRBD does block sync between the two nodes to keep the appropriate file systems in sync. DRBD creates links to all the files that have to be kept in sync.

Re: [xcat-user] /xcatpost/updateflag.awk:22: fatal: remote host and port information (3002, installstatus booted) invalid (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-21 Thread Matter, Nathaniel B CTR (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE No, on failing node - /var/log/xcat doesn't exist and no errors for xcatd on management node. After the kickstart and reboot, it errors on /xcatpost/updateflag.awk (and doesn't run any of the postscripts to complete the setup) Initially, gpu4 wasn't def

Re: [xcat-user] Upgrading an HA xCAT configuration

2014-07-21 Thread Lissa Valletta
So could you describe you HA environment a little more fully and your cluster. Is it hierarchical?What exactly were the errors on the upgrade . Did they follow one of these HA environments? For example are you using Shared Disk between the Management nodes. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wik

Re: [xcat-user] /xcatpost/updateflag.awk:22: fatal: remote host and port information (3002, installstatus booted) invalid (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-21 Thread Linda Mellor
On the failing node, do you see anything in /var/log/xcat/xcat.log that might give you some clues? Also, on the management node, any xcatd errors showing up in /var/log/messages? Linda From: "Matter, Nathaniel B CTR (US)" To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 07/21/2014 02

Re: [xcat-user] /xcatpost/updateflag.awk:22: fatal: remote host and port information (3002, installstatus booted) invalid (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-21 Thread Matter, Nathaniel B CTR (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE I've primarily been using the documentation from the wiki site as a reference and then the man pages. Master is defined in the site table, and I've rebuilt other nodes previous to this without making any changes to that table. I've noticed on the failin

[xcat-user] Upgrading an HA xCAT configuration

2014-07-21 Thread Jeffrey Lang
I have xCAT installed on our Idataplex cluster in an HA configuration. The HA installation was done by IBM and has had it's issues constant loss of xCAT data after a reboot.. Current version of xCAT is 2.7.8. When I upgraded from 2.7.6 to 2.7.8 I received errors on the secondary node, indica

Re: [xcat-user] /xcatpost/updateflag.awk:22: fatal: remote host and port information (3002, installstatus booted) invalid (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-21 Thread Lissa Valletta
What level of xCAT are you using. Give us an lsdef of one of the nodes that fails. Many of the environment variables like MASTER come from the site table. tabdump site and see if master is defined. It should be the ip or hostname as known by the node you are installing. What document have yo

[xcat-user] /xcatpost/updateflag.awk:22: fatal: remote host and port information (3002, installstatus booted) invalid (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-07-21 Thread Matter, Nathaniel B CTR (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hi All. I'm a new xcat user (please note this) and have run into an issue that's I'm unsure how to resolve. I've been rebuilding nodes successfully (upgrading to rhels6.5) and then for one of the rebuilds I get the error: awk: /xcatpost/updateflag.awk: