Re: [xcat-user] xCAT node name invalid characters or hard code limitations ?

2018-06-21 Thread Yuan Y Bai
Hi Peter,   1 : is the ‘_’ not allow to use in the compute name ? '_' is not allowed to use in the compute name. 2: is there any way to make it possible to use the ‘_’ in compute name in xCAT ? I suggest you not use '_' in compute name, '_' is invalid, if you change makedns code to let `makedns -n

[xcat-user] xCAT node name invalid characters or hard code limitations ?

2018-06-21 Thread peter CZ1 Peng
Hi ,Dear I setup the xCAT and see below failed info when try to makedns -n ,can anybody help to take a look ,thanks Ignoring line 172.32.44.178 cfdv3_192g_012-bmc cfdv3_192g_012-bmc.cluster in /etc/hosts, names cfdv3_192g_012-bmc cfdv3_192g_012-bmc.cluster contain invalid characters (valid c

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

2018-06-21 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I look so forward to distros being new enough to support SPCR (4.16 kernel, iirc, is the first one that did it for x86_64, so that or backporting it). Then the firmware can tell the kernel how to use the serial port instead of having to pass console= all the time. From: Jeff Berry Sent: Thurs

Re: [xcat-user] SciLinux 7.4 statelite problems

2018-06-21 Thread Jeff Berry
Yes - console=tty0 console=ttyS1,115200 MNTOPTS= I rebuilt the xcat server with CentOS 7.5 (and built images with that), and now the drac console is working properly. In any case, to a first approximation, I can deploy the cluster. Thanks again, Jeff Berry From: david_john...@brown.edu [mai

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Configuring external DHCP server with xCAT

2018-06-21 Thread Jarrod Johnson
On another system on the network, could you try arping -I 10.52.96.36 That is dracut doing an arp before taking the address and erroring because it senses it would conflict with some other server on the network that is arp replying claiming that address in use already. -Original Message-