Re: [xcat-user] Is xcat 2.6.1 broken for centos 5.6 x64?

2011-07-19 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I added some responses starts with below. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wa

Re: [xcat-user] A Tale of Two Postscript Directories

2011-07-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Yes, I agree with you, the xCAT-server/share/xcat/postscripts is no longer used, the postscripts are now shipped with RPM xCAT instead of xCAT-server. I searched the xCAT-server.spec and did not see anything about share/xcat/postscripts and the rpm -qf /install/postscripts does how RPM xCAT owns th

Re: [xcat-user] Problem running kvm vms

2011-07-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The command name is "makeconservercf", not "mkconservercf". I searched the xCAT documentation wiki and updated all the references for "mkconservercf" to "makeconservercf". Thanks for pointing out this problem . - Li,Guan

Re: [xcat-user] Problem running kvm vms

2011-07-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Luis On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Guang Cheng Li wrote: HI, The command name is "makeconservercf", not "mkconservercf". I searched the xCAT documentation wiki and updated all the references for " mkconservercf" to "m

Re: [xcat-user] SLES11 (no SP); copycds problem with sdk

2011-10-23 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The SLES 11 SP1 SDK support was added not too long ago, the latest xCAT 2.6.8 should work. A new autoyast template file /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/sles/compute.sdk.sles11.tmpl is shipped, use this template will enable the SDK repository, then you can add any SDK packages to the pkglist file.

Re: [xcat-user] kdump for stateless images

2011-12-07 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Yes, xCAT supports the kdump for stateless nodes. See https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_pLinux_Clusters#Setup_Kdump_Service_over_Ethernet.2FHFI_on_diskless_Linux_.28for_xCAT_2.6_and_higher.29 for more details. Thanks, --

Re: [xcat-user] Issue Manually Creating HMC Entry with mkdef Without Specifying Userid and Password

2011-12-08 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Eric, xCAT development team discussed this today, we agree that this is a code problem, we are working on the fix. For now, you can workaround the problem by specifying the username and password for the HMCs. Thanks, - Li

Re: [xcat-user] Support for RHELS6.1

2011-12-16 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The RHEL 6.1 has been in xCAT support list for a while, so either 2.6.9 or 2.6.10 should be fine. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com Address: Building 28,

Re: [xcat-user] xcatd wont start - Can't locate XML/Simple.pm in @INC

2011-12-18 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The XML/Simple.pm is installed by RPM perl-XML-Simple-2.18-1.noarch.rpm, which is shipped with xcat dep tar ball, did you use yum/zypper to install the xcat? The perl-XML-Simple should have been installed by yum/zypper, because it is required by xCAT. Thanks, -

Re: [xcat-user] Patch for makeknownhosts

2011-12-22 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Arif, Thanks for your patch, I opened a xCAT bug to track this issue, to make sure it will not be forgotten. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3463757&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 I understand the code is to add the long hostname into the knownhosts file, I need to have some qui

Re: [xcat-user] xcat linux and nim

2012-02-21 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The Linux/AIX mixed configuration should work with xCAT but not formally supported, someone in the team has verified this configuration and documented the steps at https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Linux/AIX_mixed_cluster_configuration and https://sourceforge.net/app

Re: [xcat-user] in RHELS5, how to define perfered package groups in kick start file

2012-02-21 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, You can run "yum grouplist" on your managemet node to list all the package groups, then you can use @group_name in kickstart file to specify the package groups to be installed, or simply run "yum groupinstall group_name" to install the packages on the up and running nodes. Thanks, --

Re: [xcat-user] Remote power management hardware supported by xCAT?

2012-03-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I am not aware of any kind of external power management device support with xCAT. If you do not have too many machines, like more than 1,000, and your machines will not be frequently re-provisioned, manually powering on these machines to start the provisioning process might be easier than setu

Re: [xcat-user] Nagios monitoring?

2012-03-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Yes, the Nagios monitoring supported was added in xCAT 2.7, you will have to update to xCAT 2.7 to leverage the xCAT Nagios monitoring capability. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory

Re: [xcat-user] xcat linux and nim

2012-03-29 Thread Guang Cheng Li
ckey for ruxi003 from 192.168.121.16 port 44687 ssh2 > debug1: audit event euid 0 user ruxi003 event 6 (SSH_failpubkey) > debug1: Return Val-1 for auditproc:0 > debug3: mm_answer_keyallowed: key 200901e8 is not allowed > debug1: Failed to collect Cookie from Keystore > > any ideas?

Re: [xcat-user] xcat linux and nim

2012-03-29 Thread Guang Cheng Li
/Client.pm line 159. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards Matthias Merk Guang Cheng Li schrieb am 29.03.2012 10:38:24: > Von: Guang Cheng Li > An: xCAT Users Mailing list > Kopie: xCAT Users Mailing list > Datum: 29.03.2012 10:40 > Betreff: Re: [xcat-user] xcat linux

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.7 Released!

2012-04-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, For the "extraneous "set +x" in initrd-stateless", I do not see this problem in my environment, could you please post the screen snapshot of this problem? For the "lsvpd: command not found" and "/opt/xcat/xcatinfo: No such file or directory", which are not functionality problem, and have been

Re: [xcat-user] iOS xCAT login problem

2012-04-17 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Vallard, Just be curious, could you let me know the documentation and binary location for the xCAT iOS client? I would like to have a try. thanks. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory E

Re: [xcat-user] SLES11SP1 with SDK

2012-04-26 Thread Guang Cheng Li
The autoyast template file /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/sles/compute.sdk.sles11.tmpl is the tested version that integrates the SDK image, you can use this template file or refer to this template file. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng

Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.7 service node image build

2012-05-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, For the NORESOLUTION, it may indicate that there are hostname resolution problems in the cluster, could the MN resolve the hostname of itself? Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email

Re: [xcat-user] bnx2 firmeware error with SLES 11 SP2

2012-05-07 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Thanks for figuring out the problem and the fix, I opened xCAT bug https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3524563&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 to track this, we will try to recreate this problem in our env and work on the fix, and integrate the fix into xCAT code stream. Thanks, --

Re: [xcat-user] SLES11SP1 with SDK

2012-05-14 Thread Guang Cheng Li
h original template /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/sles/compute.sdk.sles11.tmpl without any modification. But it is still not working. How we must provide the sdk. Maybe my copycds was wrong. Thanks in advance André From: Guang Cheng Li [mailto:ligua...@cn.ibm.com] Sent: Freitag, 27. April 2012 03:05 To:

Re: [xcat-user] SLES11SP1 with SDK

2012-05-15 Thread Guang Cheng Li
. And some packages from the sdk too. But after first reboot I get the message " The package resolver run failed. Please check your software section in the autoyast profile". But I didn’t change anything at the software section in the autoyast file. Regards, André From: Guang Cheng Li [mailto

Re: [xcat-user] How to separate dhcpd log with xCAT?

2012-05-17 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I am not sure if I understand the problem, are you trying to modify the dhcpd.conf to redirect the dhcp log info to some files other than /var/log/messages? After the xCAT makedhcp -n command is run, you can modify the dhcpd.conf file to add the log-facility commands, and then restart dhcpd, t

Re: [xcat-user] imgcapture, error using genimage on management node

2012-05-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Yes, you can simply run "genimage centos6.2img -i eth0" to generate the image, the img files have already been extracted to correct directory. Several problems caused the error: 1. There is a code problem with imgcapture -o , I opened bug https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=352

Re: [xcat-user] redhat 6.2 stateful image

2012-06-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The error indicates the files images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, images/pxeboot/initrd.img and images/pxeboot/initrd.img could not be found in directory /install/rhels6.2/x86_64/, you could check if the copycds has successfully copies the os packages to /install/rhels6.2/x86_64? Thanks, ---

Re: [xcat-user] redhat 6.2 stateful image

2012-06-06 Thread Guang Cheng Li
be the reason. i'll try re-downloading the iso and running the copycds command again, but i don't have much hope for that. any other ideas? thanks. damir On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Guang Cheng Li wrote: HI, The error indicates the files images/pxeboot/vmlinuz, imag

Re: [xcat-user] xcat - tftp compatibility issue?

2012-06-11 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, We made some changes recently(2.7?) to use the os shipped tftp server instead of the xCAT one. For configuring the os shipped tftp server, AAsn.pm intentionally configured disabled=yes into /etc/xinetd.d/tftp, and start tftp directly by calling "/usr/sbin/in.tftpd $v4only -v -l -s /tftpboot -m

Re: [xcat-user] redhat 6.2 kickstart file

2012-06-12 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, xCAT development and testing team have always been using the xCAT pre-shipped RHEL kickstart templates under /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/rh without any problem, you may want to use the xCAT pre-shipped kickstart template also, if you do not have specific requirements with the installation. T

Re: [xcat-user] Statelite - NFS client cache

2012-06-15 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The nfs caching is built-in feature with nfs, it means that nfs client will not write the info back to the nfs server immediately, it will cache for a while before writing the data back to nfs server, I do not know for sure on how to tuning the nfs cache, but with the default settings on AIX,

Re: [xcat-user] why dracut mode ignore -l size option on genimage

2012-07-10 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, This should be a xCAT bug, I opened xCAT bug https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3541948&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 to address this problem. In the meanwhile, you can manually modify the subroutine generic_post in /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot//genimage to change the mount optio

Re: [xcat-user] Firewall ports for xCAT

2012-07-11 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The doc https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_Port_Usage lists more ports that will be used by xCAT. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-07-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, A lot of reasons might cause postscripts could not be run successfully, like the compute node can not resolve the hostname of the management node. Try the following debug procedure: 1. Anything in /tmp/wget.log? is the node trying to get the postscripts from the correct server? 2. /var/log/x

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-07-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
heer sa_zah...@hotmail.com > Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 14:26:34 +1200 > From: francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install? > > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:16:40 Guang Cheng Li wrote: > > HI, > &

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-07-25 Thread Guang Cheng Li
pts directory and > subdirectories are world readable. This can cause a failure that will > show up in the wget.log that Guang Cheng Li asked for below. > Thanks! > Ok I will give you a bit of what you want. Like I said "updatenode -P" runs the postscripts normally so thses f

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-07-31 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Does /xcatpost/mypostscript and /xcatpost/mypostscript.post look correct? like this: [root@kvm1 xcatpost]# cat /xcatpost/mypostscript # subroutine used to run postscripts run_ps () { logdir="/var/log/xcat" mkdir -p $logdir logfile="/var/log/xcat/xcat.log" if [ -f $1 ]; then echo "`date` Ru

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-07-31 Thread Guang Cheng Li
ct Beijing 100193, PRC 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 From: François Bissey To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 2012-08-01 08:04 Subject:Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install? On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:54:26 Guang Cheng Li wrote: > Does /xcatpost/mypostscript

Re: [xcat-user] postscript not run after install?

2012-08-01 Thread Guang Cheng Li
M China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 From: François Bissey To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date:

[xcat-user] xCAT managing vmware esxi virtual machines problems

2012-08-16 Thread Guang Cheng Li
I am trying to setup a xCAT cluster in which both the xCAT MN and CNs are vmware esxi virtual machines on the same physical machine, the virtual machines were created manually through the vmware vsphere client, when I defined the virtual machine as xCAT CN, the definition looks like: [root@rhmn ~

Re: [xcat-user] chdef broken in 2.6.11

2012-09-25 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Several comments: 1. -w is used to specify the selection string to filter nodes, in your case, the -w is not right. You should use this: chdef -m -t node -o p7n14-c postbootscripts= 2. otherpkgs is in the xcat default postbootscripts, you can not remove the otherpkgs through chdef , yo

Re: [xcat-user] "makedhcp -n" appears to ignore networks.domain

2012-09-26 Thread Guang Cheng Li
The networks.domain is not honored by makedhcp for now, the makedhcp uses the site.domain for the DHCP option "domain-name" for all the networks. xCAT currently does not support multiple domains, we do have a xCAT wishlist item to support multiple domains. The networks.ddnsdomain is used for ddns

Re: [xcat-user] Failover management nodes

2012-09-27 Thread Guang Cheng Li
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Re: [xcat-user] performing a diskfull sles install with an updated kernel

2012-10-28 Thread Guang Cheng Li
If we simply put the updated kernel RPM into the os packages directory, I do not think it will work. The os repo information needs to be updated too, updating the os repo info is not so easy, we have ever tried to put some updated RPMs into the os repo, but the os installation will not recognize th

Re: [xcat-user] performing a diskfull sles install with an updated kernel

2012-10-28 Thread Guang Cheng Li
2 10:10 PM, Guang Cheng Li wrote: If we simply put the updated kernel RPM into the os packages directory, I do not think it will work. The os repo information needs to be updated too, updating the os repo info is not so easy, we have ever tried to put some updated RPMs into t

Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode

2012-11-08 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, When you said "get rcons working from servicenodes", do you mean run the "rcons" command on the service nodes? It is not recommended to run xCAT commands directly on service nodes. If you set up the conserver and servicenode attribute correctly, when you run makeconsercf, it will generate cons

Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode

2012-11-14 Thread Guang Cheng Li
st Regards Matthias Merk Guang Cheng Li schrieb am 09.11.2012 03:10:48: > Von: Guang Cheng Li > An: xCAT Users Mailing list , > Datum: 09.11.2012 03:12 > Betreff: Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode > > HI, > > When you said "get rcons working from servic

Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode

2012-11-18 Thread Guang Cheng Li
gards Matthias Merk Guang Cheng Li schrieb am 15.11.2012 04:58:10: > Von: Guang Cheng Li > An: xCAT Users Mailing list , > Datum: 15.11.2012 04:59 > Betreff: Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode > > HI, > > It is not recommended to run xcat command directly on ser

Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode

2012-11-22 Thread Guang Cheng Li
rated. /opt/freeware/sbin/conserver wasn't running. how is it started automatically under AIX? thanks best regards Matthais Von:Guang Cheng Li An: xCAT Users Mailing list , Datum: 19.11.2012 03:36 Betreff:Re: [xcat-user] allow rcons from servicenode Have you set the &q

Re: [xcat-user] Patch for xcatd to support better SLES

2012-12-02 Thread Guang Cheng Li
I guess the problem is that the packages perl-Socket6 and perl-IO-Socket-INET6 are installed on the MN however the IPv6 is disabled on the MN. Could you try to remove the packages perl-Socket6 and perl-IO-Socket-INET6 from MN and then restart xcatd to see if helps. The patch you attached does seem

Re: [xcat-user] Patch for xcatd to support better SLES

2012-12-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Pokorra To: Date: 2012-12-03 16:25 Subject:Re: [xcat-user] Patch for xcatd to support better SLES Am Montag, den 03.12.2012, 10:14 +0800 schrieb Guang Cheng Li: > I guess the problem is that the packages perl-Socket6 and > perl-IO-Socket-INET6 are installed on the MN howev

Re: [xcat-user] ssh no password for no root user

2012-12-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Granting_Users_xCAT_privileges should be the doc that could help you out. Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@c

Re: [xcat-user] remote network xnba fix

2012-12-10 Thread Guang Cheng Li
-- Daniel M. Weeks Systems Administrator Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 518-276-4458 [attachment "remote-network-fix.patch" deleted by Guang Cheng Li/China/IBM] -

Re: [xcat-user] xcat syslog configuration

2012-12-11 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The syslog on all the compute nodes is configured by xCAT to be redirected to management node, if you would like to stop the syslog redirection, you could login the compute node, remove the line "*.* @" from the syslog configuration file, /etc/rsyslog.conf for RHEL 6.x and /etc/syslog-ng/syslo

Re: [xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

2012-12-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I could run genimage on CentOS 6.3 and diskless boot CentOS 6.3 compute nodes without any problem, the error below might be related to the package list file you are using, the error "W: Dracut module "" cannot be found." is caused by the missing dracut-network package in the pkglist. Here

Re: [xcat-user] genimage won't create a working image

2012-12-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
AM, Guang Cheng Li wrote: > HI, > > I could run genimage on CentOS 6.3 and diskless boot CentOS 6.3 > compute nodes without any problem, the error below might be related > to the package list file you are using, the error "W: Dracut module > "" cannot be foun

Re: [xcat-user] Upgrading new kernel

2013-01-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Gilad, The otherpkgs or ospkg should work: Otherpkg: #On MN, You need to: #1. put rpms under /install/post/otherpkgs/os/arch directory where 'os' and 'arch' # can be found in the nodetype table. #2. put the name of the packages to /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot

[xcat-user] nodeset options "install", "netboot" and "statelite" will be deprecated in xCAT 2.8

2013-01-05 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, This is not a formal announcement, but it will happen very soon, the nodeset options "install", "netboot" and "statelite" will be deprecated in xCAT 2.8, the os provisioning for RHEL, Fedora, CentOS and other RH family os distros, SLES/SuSE, Debian/Ubuntu nodes should be switched to use osima

Re: [xcat-user] Is xCAT 2.8 meant to disable SELinux?

2013-04-14 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Chris, A nice catch, I wrote the code a while ago, maybe I got confused by the return value of xCAT::Utils->isSELINUX() when I wrote the code, the xCAT::Utils->isSELINUX() simply returns the return value from command selinuxenabled, the selinuxenabled command return value 0 means SELinux is ena

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

2013-05-21 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I was not seeing issue with conserver when I setup the HAMN with DRBD +Pacemaker+Corosync, you mentioned conserver could not be started, if you try to start it manually, does the command "service conserver start" returns 0 or not? it is expected to return 0. And what is your Pacemaker resource

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

2013-05-22 Thread Guang Cheng Li
all=21, rc=1, status=complete): unknown error I hope that makes sense regards, Arif On 22/05/13 01:44, Guang Cheng Li wrote: HI, I was not seeing issue with conserver when I setup the HAMN with DRBD +Pacemaker+Corosync, you mentioned conserver could not be started, if

Re: [xcat-user] XCAT MN HA

2013-05-23 Thread Guang Cheng Li
it's own has no problems at all, and I do get exit status to 0, this was the first thing I checked. The error I think was on the following lines when I did "crm status" Failed actions:     xCAT_conserver_stop_0 (node=mg01, call=21, rc=1, status=complete): unk

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.1 : imgcapture fails to run

2013-07-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, What you will get if you run the following commands manually on the scl-p05-mn? cd /install/netboot/centos6/x86_64/scl-mgmt/rootimg gzip -cd /tmp/xcat_imgcapture.30829 | cpio -idum Several possible reasons I can think of: gzip is not installed on scl-p05-mn, or the scl-p05-mn does not have

Re: [xcat-user] osimage questions

2013-07-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
You are right, the "profile" attribute in the osimage table is not that heavily being used, it could be used to generate some default paths if the path was not set explicitly, can could also be used the "group" or "categorize" the osimages. Thanks, -

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT HA documentation

2013-08-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Arif, Thanks for the configuration listed below, I updated the xCAT doc http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Setup_HA_Mgmt_Node_With_DRBD_Pacemaker_Corosync to reflect this. If you have any further updates with the configuration or procedure, please let me know and I can

Re: [xcat-user] lsdef --osimage not showing osimage postscripts for an installing node

2013-12-13 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Hello Russell, This problem has been fixed in 2.8.3. See https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/3748/ for more details. Not sure if you could update to 2.8.3... Thanks, - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Labora

Re: [xcat-user] [PATCH] confignics postscript bug

2014-01-28 Thread Guang Cheng Li
SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlLobjoACgkQO2KABBYQAh9zGgCcD4ecUU74/DArE5bNnu+TkGMJ mekAnRApPmVKkM1f6LZFFyEDGvxgWU36 =LvrK -END PGP SIGNATURE- [附件 "confignics.patch" 被 Guang Ch

Re: [xcat-user] adding infiniband nodes on ubuntu

2014-02-11 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The Infiniband on Ubuntu is not supported by xCAT for now, the current plan is to add the Infiniband support on Ubuntu in the 2H 2014. We welcome new developers willing to contribute to the xCAT code to make it better. In order to do that, you need to sign the xCAT Contributor or Maintainer ag

Re: [xcat-user] consoleondemand for only some nodes?

2014-02-13 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Arif, Thanks for contributing the idea and code. xCAT development team reviewed the code and agreed that this is nice feature for xCAT 2.9. So could you please go ahead and checkin the code to xCAT 2.9? Several other things need to consider: 1. Do we want to make the consoleondemand be a node

Re: [xcat-user] Genesis kernel on Haswell (AND OTHER MISSING DRIVERS AND SUCH)

2014-03-26 Thread Guang Cheng Li
I figured it out. There is a problem in the code /bin/doxcat that tries to run ntpq command with flag "rv 0 state", however, the "rv 0 state" was removed in the new ntp version. I fixed the problem in code, made a new xCAT-gensis-base based on CentOS 6.5 and uploaded it to sourceforge, if you get t

Re: [xcat-user] http://xcatmaster/install not available any more

2014-05-27 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Markus, Did you update from some xCAT 2.8.4 pre-GA snapshot build to this GA version(20140512 build)? The development team modified the code logic of creating xcat.conf twice during the development cycle, I guess the later change did not cover the situation in which the user already installed s

Re: [xcat-user] Multiple management node

2014-06-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The doc http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Highly_Available_Management_Node describes the different HA MN options for xCAT, you could take a look and if you have further question, please let me know. ---

Re: [xcat-user] "a request variable unknown to the server" during pxe install

2014-06-22 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Could you please check the version of xCAT-genesis-scripts and xCAT-genesis-base? the build date of these packages should be later than 20140426. [root@ls21n01 ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i xCAT-genesis xCAT-genesis-scripts-x86_64-2.9-snap201406021344.noarch xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64-2.8-snap201404

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT mediawiki on Source Forge not working.

2014-06-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
We updated the link to https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/, and the http://xcat.sf.net will be redirected to the wiki automatically. We still have a lot of work to do, the biggest thing is to update the "transcludes/includes" in all the documentation pages. When you are reading the documentati

[xcat-user] New xCAT wiki - vote for the bugs and feature requests we opened to sourceforge support team

2014-07-17 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Hello xCAT Users, As you may know that we migrated the xCAT wiki from sourceforge Mediawiki to the new sourceforge Allura wiki, because sourceforge retried the Mediawiki in June 2014. The new xCAT wiki is https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Main_Page/, we are still doing some clean up work on

Re: [xcat-user] genesis qlcnic module

2014-08-27 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI Christian, Sorry for the late response, I changed the code to add the qlcnic kernel module into the default genesis-base modules, you will be able to get the qlcnic in the default xcat-genesis-base in the next version of xcat-genesis-base. BTW, we are making some significant changes with the

[xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-01-07 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI xCAT users, In year 2014, we have been experiencing the network access problems to sourceforge quite a bit, even when there is no network access problems, the network speed is also very slow, it dramatically slows down our development and testing progress, and also make us wondering about the

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-01-07 Thread Guang Cheng Li
S35 2PG. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. On 07/01/15 09:57, Guang Cheng Li wrote: HI xCAT users, In year 2014, we have been experiencing the network access problems to sourcefo

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-01-07 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Park, Chapeltown, Sheffield, S35 2PG. This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. On 07/01/15 09:57, Guang Cheng Li wrote: HI xCAT users, In year 2014, we have been experiencing the network access prob

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-02-11 Thread Guang Cheng Li
, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 From: Guang Cheng Li/China/IBM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2015/01/07 17:57 Subject:Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github? HI xCAT users, In year 2014, we have been

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-05-05 Thread Guang Cheng Li
京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 From: Guang Cheng Li/China/IBM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2015/02/11 16:13 Subject:Re: Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github? As a follow up of the discussion for Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github, after discussed with

Re: [xcat-user] Error message installing xCAT

2015-05-18 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The xcat-dep online repo was having some problem, and the development team has fixed the problem earlier today, could you retry? - Li,Guang Cheng (李光成) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com

Re: [xcat-user] rnetboot issue in 2.9.1

2015-05-19 Thread Guang Cheng Li
Douglas, Have you tried to setup the networks.gateway to be the keyword ""? [root@c910f02c01p02 ~]# tabdump -d networks | grep gateway gateway:The network gateway. It can be set to an ip address or the keyword , the keyword indicates the cluster-facing ip address configured on this mana

Re: [xcat-user] xcat genesis kernel and mellanox ethernet cards

2015-05-19 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, The latest xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64 was generated on CentOS 6.6, we may regenerate it on CentOS 6.7 when CentOS 6.7 is released later this year. If the "modprobe" workaround is acceptable, let's leave xCAT-genesis-base-x86_64 as it does today. -

Re: [xcat-user] rnetboot issue in 2.9.1

2015-05-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
"It's not an opportunity if it doesn't scare you a little bit" Inactive hide details for Guang Cheng Li ---05/19/2015 08

Re: [xcat-user] rnetboot issue in 2.9.1

2015-05-21 Thread Guang Cheng Li
paste that rnetboot does, things work fine... Any way to disable the gateway being added to OF command? _ Douglas Myers, IBM Special Events - Smart Cloud BMS Lead _ "It's not an opportunity if it doesn't scare you a littl

Re: [xcat-user] rnetboot issue in 2.9.1

2015-05-24 Thread Guang Cheng Li
this will get us by... _ Douglas Myers, IBM Special Events - Smart Cloud BMS Lead _ "It's not an opportunity if it doesn't scare you a little bit" Inactive hide details for Guang Cheng Li ---05/21/2015 06:28:37 PM---HI, Guang

[xcat-user] Build xcat-core tarball core-rpms-snap.tar.bz2 on your Linux machine locally

2015-06-04 Thread Guang Cheng Li
The xCAT development team has made some changes with the xCAT build process in the xCAT master branch(2.10) to allow the users to build xcat-core tarball on their machines locally, here is the procedure, https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_Developer_Guide/#building-xcat-core-from-xcat-core-gi

Re: [xcat-user] Move package repositories?

2015-06-16 Thread Guang Cheng Li
The OpenSUSE build service seems to support most of the main stream Linux distributions: CentOS, Debian/Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, SLES; I did some quick investigation, the ppc64/ppc64le support of these build services might be a problem. We need more investigation before we could decide. -

Re: [xcat-user] Toward a post-sourceforge future....

2015-07-22 Thread Guang Cheng Li
We discussed this topic in the xCAT development team meeting today, here are the consensus from the team, if you have any further comments, please let us know. 1. Code repository: We will migrate the xCAT code repository from sourceforge to github after xCAT 2.10 release, which is planned for July

[xcat-user] xCAT code repositories on sourceforge are now locked -> migrating to github

2015-07-30 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, Since we are migrating the xCAT source code repositories from sourceforge to github, the xCAT code repositories on sourceforge are now locked to make sure the migration will be smooth, I will post another message to the mailing list when the source code repositories are ready on github. If yo

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT code repositories on sourceforge are now locked -> migrating to github

2015-08-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
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[xcat-user] The xCAT bug and feature-request system on sourceforge are CLOSED -> migrate to github issue system

2015-08-03 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, As part of the xCAT migration from sourceforge to github, we will migrate the xCAT bug(https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/bugs/) and feature-request( https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/feature-requests) system to github issue system(https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues), as of today, the xCAT bu

Re: [xcat-user] psh using sudo

2015-09-20 Thread Guang Cheng Li
HI, I can think of two options: 1. Use psh "echo \n | sudo -S " to automate the password input for sudo, this is not a secure option because you need to echo your password on the screen. 2. If your security policy allows, configure the sudo to allow password-less commands execution.