Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup Error

2014-09-23 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I would suggest ssh into the node, set -x in /bin/bmcsetup, and see where it fails. Consider skipping that step. Unfortunately user management is not the best part of the IPMI spec, and it isn't nicely consistent vendor to vendor. From: Lissa Valletta/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS To: xCAT Use

Re: [xcat-user] /proc/sys/vm/zone_reclaim_mode and xCAT

2014-09-17 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I'm a bit fuzzy, but IIRC there was a bug in zone reclaim mode that would cause it to have a hard hang with significant tmpfs, even when a numa node wasn't even close to full. This was causing nodes to not even be able to complete boot. I think when we noticed it not having a hard hang anymore,

Re: [xcat-user] How does getmacs work?

2014-08-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
n defined, not sure if you have that. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/XCAT_system_x_support_for_IBM_Flex/ What does lsdef node1107 show? Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Inactive hide details for Jarrod B Johnson---08/19/2014 10:47:21 AM---FYI, that wo

Re: [xcat-user] How does getmacs work?

2014-08-19 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Mac=0a:0b:0c:0d:0e:0f The LOM mac address can be obtained pretty reliably in this way (assuming that the LOM is configured to use DHCP). The host mac is also usually available, especially when there is no OS on the node yet. From: Jarrod B Johnson [mailto:jbjoh...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, Aug

Re: [xcat-user] How does getmacs work?

2014-08-15 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
rinv mac *might* work. Unfortunately, that was written mostly for BladeCenter. The rackmount case has been sufficiently less predictable and we've been using switch based discovery mostly. From: Lanae Neild To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 08/15/2014 04:20 PM Subject:[xcat

Re: [xcat-user] Stateless images and root passwords

2014-08-15 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
This is one area that I think I'll want to change in confluent. It would have nice to have packimage override if there is a password for a node and override if there is a password. The global nature of the passwd table makes that difficult. For now, what about: # diff -u packimage.pm packimage.

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
});     push @payload,scalar @user;     push @payload,@user;     $self->{sessionestablishmentcontext} = STATE_EXPECTINGRAKP2;     $self->sendpayload(payload=>\@payload,type=>$payload_types{'rakp1'}); } Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-42

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
U -P -H node1903-man0 power status Authentication type NONE not supported Authentication type NONE not supported Error: Unable to establish LAN session Unable to get Chassis Power Status [root@master autobackups]# ipmitool -I lan -U -P -L ADMINISTRATOR + -H node1903-man0 power s

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
settings. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Did you restore ipmi2support after modifying IPMI.pm to not have it? Does ipmitool -I lan -U xxx -P xxx -H node11903-man0 p

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
ut our BMC configuration? If I know what cipher needs to be supported perhaps I can find out what I need from HP. Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Regretably, I think

[xcat-user] Confluent design documents

2014-08-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
It's a mix of documenting what I've already done and what I intend to do or hope someone helps do. Currently the content is all me and so objections to anything may shape the reality moving forward. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Confluent/ Comments are very welcome.--

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
e Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:05 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Hmm, that looks bizarre.  If you try to do 'ipmitool -I lanplus -U -P -H power state' from a remote node, does ipmitool also

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
des: node1903 Lanae Neild Systems Programmer I HPC, CCIT, Clemson University (864)505-4293 lne...@clemson.edu On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Jarrod B Johnson < jbjoh...@us.ibm.com> wrote: Can you try IPMI.pm fr

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-07-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Or someone writing a quick utility script. Of course the meat of it is a command like 'rpower stat' wouldn't work If 2.7 IPMI.pm copied over IPMI.pm in 2.8 makes this go away, that would be a sufficient workaround (the only change in 2.8 in that file is trying to negotiate down priveleges th

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-07-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Can you try IPMI.pm from 2.7? If 2.7 still works, that means the measures to try to work even if Administrator is forbidden messed something up... > > From:Lanae Neild > To:xCAT Users Mailing list > Date:2014-07-29 11:20 > Subject:[xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP I

Re: [xcat-user] Upgraded to xCAT 2.8.4, nodeset not working as expected.

2014-07-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
1-2696 HSCSS Task Order Lead - Ravi Nair 919-541-5467 - nair.r...@epa.gov High Performance Computing Subtask Lead - Durward Jones 919-541-5043 - jones.durw...@epa.gov Environmental Modeling and Visualization Lead - Heidi Paulsen 919-541-1834 - paulsen.he...@epa.gov From: Jarrod B Johnson Sent: Mon

Re: [xcat-user] Upgraded to xCAT 2.8.4, nodeset not working as expected.

2014-07-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Odd that rsetboot should take a long time. I assume something like rpower stat also takes a long time? From: "Viviano, Brad" To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 07/28/2014 09:49 AM Subject:[xcat-user] Upgraded to xCAT 2.8.4, nodeset not working as expected. Good

[xcat-user] confluent beta

2014-07-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I have posted some packages for beta testing confluent under RHEL6. I'll probably post the dep packages for RHEL7 as well shortly, but the instructions will stay the same. https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Confluent_Beta/-

Re: [xcat-user] r-commands not working on flex systems

2014-07-23 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Well, there are a couple of ways to do this, the shortest manual way would be to ssh to the CMM and: system> users -T mm[p] -am enabled system> users -T mm[p] -n USERID -ipmisnmpv3 enabled While there, I personally also like to at least: system> accseccfg -pe 0 -T mm[p] To remove password expiry

Re: [xcat-user] tftp unreliable?

2014-07-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
If you use noderes.netboot=xnba and then nodeset, does it improve? What kernel messages do you see? From: Garrick Staples To: Date: 07/17/2014 12:49 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] tftp unreliable? That is unchanged through the upgrade: pxe. On 07/17/2014 04:46 AM, Jarrod John

Re: [xcat-user] Issues building laptop using xCAT

2014-07-10 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
If that's the case, then blank installnic or primarynic should help. I thought that the fact that only wlan0 showed up meant he saw a list and the ethernet was not among them... From: deheller To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 07/10/2014 02:05 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user]

Re: [xcat-user] ksdevice problem

2014-07-10 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
on the same HW; sometimes it used CNDN and other times ethX. A separate but related problem is similar inconsistency in NIC naming in kickstart & autoyast files. The generated files can fail if they contain hard-coded names that are different from what the installer is using "this tim

Re: [xcat-user] ksdevice problem

2014-07-10 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
What happens if you leave installnic and primarynic blank? xCAT should autodetect in that case. There's a high chance that 'eth0' is not what you think it is and the autodetection should overcome it. From: Hellen Nyatsambo To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 07/10/2014 07:26 AM

Re: [xcat-user] Release notes?

2014-06-20 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Well, that was a surprise... must have missed a warning Note: The Hosted Apps platform will be retired on 2014-06-19 So I've started an automatic import into their new stuff. Some pages are done, for example: https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/newwiki/XCAT_2.8.1_Release_Notes/ It's not an inst

Re: [xcat-user] Regarding post-discovery issue with dual ethernet interfaces

2014-06-17 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 6c:ae:8b:20:d5:33 via eth2: booting disallowed I will try changing netboot to xnba, and check if it performs as expected. Thank you, Lohit On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Is the second nic intended for bonding or other application?  Is there

Re: [xcat-user] Regarding post-discovery issue with dual ethernet interfaces

2014-06-17 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Is the second nic intended for bonding or other application? Is there an IP address it should have? Discovery should have disabled the second nic or assigned the intended address. To manually do so, nodech m2 mac.mac='6c:ae:8b:20:d5:32| 6c:ae:8b:20:d5:33!*NOIP*' then makedhcp. FYI, you could a

Re: [xcat-user] PXE boot problem

2014-05-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
One possibility could be any firmware change that might have occured against the system/NIC. I'm unfamiliar with any such defect specifically, but then again that appears to be an Oracle server which I have no experience with. The only scenario I know of specifically requiring ProxyDHCP respnose

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT - Node reboot problem

2014-05-15 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
boots be faster. From: De Giorgi Jean-Claude To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 05/15/2014 10:26 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] xCAT - Node reboot problem It works well, the OS starts normally… . Tks De : Jarrod B Johnson Répondre à : xCAT Users Mailing list Date : Thursday,

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT - Node reboot problem

2014-05-15 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
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[xcat-user] Confluent server beta

2014-05-13 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I have put confluent server beta up. It is not rpm installable yet and most of the planned commands are not written, but the cli console experience is accessible now for ipmi devices. Caveat: -cannot define a node in both conserver and confluent. The two will fight over the node leading to mis

Re: [xcat-user] Command rinv hangs

2014-04-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
been attached. ​Best Regards, -- Dmitry. С Уважением, -- Дмитрий On 15 April 2014 17:11, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: FYI, note that the for loop was 'fru read'.  This should dump a binary file taht I could peruse for more info.  If tcpdump -i -f 'host ' -w

Re: [xcat-user] Command rinv hangs

2014-04-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
rinv hangs Hello, any news regarding my issue? ​Best Regards, -- Dmitry. On 18 April 2014 07:29, Dmitry Yulov wrote: Hello, All neccessary files has been attached. ​Best Regards, -- Dmitry. С Уважением, -- Дмитрий On 15 April 2014 17:11, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: FYI, note

Re: [xcat-user] Bug with bmcsetup

2014-04-25 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
[xcat-user] Bug with bmcsetup Thanks Jarrod. Would you mind letting me know what the other mistake is so I can fix the issue in my copy? Thanks! On 25.04.2014 12:27, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Thanks. I pushed that change. Also noticed another mistake while I was in there and fixed tha

Re: [xcat-user] Bug with bmcsetup

2014-04-25 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Thanks. I pushed that change. Also noticed another mistake while I was in there and fixed that. From: Russell Jones To: Date: 04/25/2014 01:18 PM Subject:[xcat-user] Bug with bmcsetup Hi all, bmcsetup seems to have a bug where it will pull multiple userid's if the user

Re: [xcat-user] iDataplex dx360M3 nodes, "r" commands failing after IMM firmware update.

2014-04-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
67 - nair.r...@epa.gov High Performance Computing Subtask Lead - Durward Jones 919-541-5043 - jones.durw...@epa.gov Environmental Modeling and Visualization Lead - Heidi Paulsen 919-541-1834 - paulsen.he...@epa.gov From: Jarrod B Johnson Sent: Friday, April 18, 2014 8:27 AM To: xCAT Users Mailin

Re: [xcat-user] iDataplex dx360M3 nodes, "r" commands failing after IMM firmware update.

2014-04-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
19-541-2696 HSCSS Task Order Lead - Ravi Nair 919-541-5467 - nair.r...@epa.gov High Performance Computing Subtask Lead - Durward Jones 919-541-5043 - jones.durw...@epa.gov Environmental Modeling and Visualization Lead - Heidi Paulsen 919-541-1834 - paulsen.he...@epa.gov From: Jarrod B Johnson S

Re: [xcat-user] iDataplex dx360M3 nodes, "r" commands failing after IMM firmware update.

2014-04-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Can you do an ipmitool lan print 1 on the system? From: "Viviano, Brad" To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 04/18/2014 08:05 AM Subject:[xcat-user] iDataplex dx360M3 nodes, "r" commands failing after IMM firmware update. All, I have a rac

Re: [xcat-user] Command rinv hangs

2014-04-15 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
... I do not see the hang. С Уважением, -- Дмитрий On 14 April 2014 18:11, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: So something in the FRU areas must be causing a loop. On one of the systems, it might be interesting to see the output of: # ipmitool fru print And the .fru files f

Re: [xcat-user] Command rinv hangs

2014-04-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So something in the FRU areas must be causing a loop. On one of the systems, it might be interesting to see the output of: # ipmitool fru print And the .fru files from: for id in `ipmitool fru print |grep '(ID '|sed -e 's/.*ID //' -e 's/)//'`; do ipmitool fru read $id $id.fru; done Finally, it

[xcat-user] confluent check in and intro video

2014-04-07 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I have put the confluent codebase up on sourceforge for now. It is not at all packaged, but to get a feel for what sorts of things it can do, I recorded a very quick and dirty video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_lDaktYnsQ---

Re: [xcat-user] console escape sequences to support

2014-04-07 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
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[xcat-user] console escape sequences to support

2014-04-07 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So in the new console server, thus far all the client currently supports is: ctrl-e, c, ? (help) ctrl-e, c, . (disconnect console) I'm going to be adding: ctrl-e, c, o (reconnect console, note that it already automatically detects and corrects most situations that I employed ctrl-e, c, o to fix

[xcat-user] Require explicit group declaration?

2014-03-31 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So on the console server, it supports the concepts of groups. Currently I've done it similar to xCAT where if you add a group that does not exist to a node through something akin to 'nodech', the group is created implicitly. At the same time, changing a group to add a node that doesn't exist wi

Re: [xcat-user] Changing IP address of existed nodes

2014-03-06 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Hmm, what happens if you 'rsetboot hd'? Do they boot? If that is the case, what server platform are we talking about? It could be a bad interaction between pxelinux and the BIOS of the system... From: Dennis Zheleznyak To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 03/06/2014 05:32 AM Subject:

Re: [xcat-user] how to recover deleted table rows...

2014-03-05 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Was it customized any? In typical usage, 'nodeset' automatically constructs the table contents anyway. From: "Han, Shuchu" To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 03/05/2014 02:27 PM Subject:[xcat-user] how to recover deleted table rows... Hi All, I was ac

Re: [xcat-user] Changing IP address of existed nodes

2014-03-04 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
If you didn't explicitly change the configuration to static and your nodes were named 'n1' through 'n100', you should be able to: psh n1-n100 shutdown -h now nodech n1-n100 hosts.ip='|192.168.2.($1)|' nodels n1,n100 hosts.ip (make sure that the result was what you wanted) makehosts n1-n100 makedns

Re: [xcat-user] runimage didn't find the binary for execution

2014-03-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I'm guessing the output of rpm -qa|grep nbfs on management node says that is there. rpm -qa|grep -i genesis will not show that present is my guess. I think upgrading to genesis will allow stuff like this to proceed. From: "Stagneth, Andre" To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 03/03/2014

Re: [xcat-user] runimage didn't find the binary for execution

2014-03-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Is this genesis or nbfs? genesis included both 32 and 64 bit libraries... nbfs did not do 64 bit... From: David D Johnson To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 03/03/2014 04:07 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] runimage didn't find the binary for execution Can you check with ldd or fi

Re: [xcat-user] Interactive install

2014-03-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
28, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: After the nodeset, edit /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/.* and remove the bits where it points to a kickstart file or whatever. Then it will be interactive and manual when it pxe boots. David Johnson ---02/28/2014 02:55:04 PM---We'v

Re: [xcat-user] Interactive install

2014-02-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
After the nodeset, edit /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/.* and remove the bits where it points to a kickstart file or whatever. Then it will be interactive and manual when it pxe boots. From: David Johnson To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 02/28/2014 02:55 PM Subject:

Re: [xcat-user] Restarting xcatd insanely slow with DHCP lease generation

2014-02-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
d of relying on DHCP to do it? Having trouble figuring out how the node would get it's right IP if DHCP isn't giving it to it :-) On 2/25/2014 8:09 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: How odd, in 2.3 we already were using omshell to do this stuff (it was one of the changes from 1.

Re: [xcat-user] Restarting xcatd insanely slow with DHCP lease generation

2014-02-25 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
How odd, in 2.3 we already were using omshell to do this stuff (it was one of the changes from 1.x to 2.0). Perhaps I can look at the complexity of stuff pushed in... That said, as a perhaps more further flung hypothetical future, what would people say to a scheme where dhcp does have to exist a

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT dhcpd overwrites ifcfg-eth* files?

2014-02-25 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Well, when it works fine, no need to bother. In this case, I can't find anywhere in code that an 'ifcfg-eth*.xcat should be created. I tried to look back a bit and didn't see a potential cause. Is there any chance that there is a custom cron job or custom postscript with updatenode running? F

Re: [xcat-user] xcat and BoMC iso image

2014-02-24 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
FYI, not exactly consuming the *ISO* per se, but: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Updating_Firmware_with_Bootable_Media_Creator From: Dirk Gómez To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 02/24/2014 10:46 AM Subject:[xcat-user] xcat and BoMC iso image

Re: [xcat-user] chtab only works for "root", not for ordinary users

2014-02-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
chtab is.. special... It bypasses xcatd and goes direct. The reason being is that otherwise we have chicken and egg situation (if site table not configured, can't start service, without policy table entry, can't change policy table). There is, however, a tabch command which should serve that pur

Re: [xcat-user] Rhels6.4 and Legacy

2014-02-03 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I'd be surprised if it didn't work. However, I personally have been inclined to roll with UEFI boot when available anyway. I wonder about what hard drive setup was. Wondering if there was something particularly esoteric going on that efibootmgr could overcome (by being specific about GPT UUID) t

Re: [xcat-user] Custom options for some dhcp ranges?

2014-01-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Well, 'makedhcp -s ' can set arbitrary dhcp statements for a noderange. Beware that we currently don't provide a persistence for that across makedhcp -n. From: Russell Jones To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 01/30/2014 01:47 PM Subject:[xcat-user] Custom options for some dhc

[xcat-user] Console server/and then some next generation update/questions

2014-01-30 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So looking for commentary and wanting to demo pretty soon. The following things I wanted to highlight/get feedback on: -All node related configuration is not hosted in a global configuration space like 'site' or 'passwd'. Notably, 'consoleondemand' becomes node by node configuration (though it

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

2014-01-24 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Odd, anything in /var/log/messages? From: Dan Kulinski To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 01/24/2014 12:54 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] Genesis kernel on Haswell (AND OTHER MISSING DRIVERS AND SUCH) I was able to build a new genesis image and

Re: [xcat-user] Sequential discovery does not support virtual machines message

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Well, in /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/x86_64/fs/bin/dodiscovery you'll find: if [ -r /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name ]; then #x86 PRODNAME=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/dmi/id/product_name` IAMAVM=0 if [ "$PRODNAME" = "KVM" ]; then IAMAVM=1

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

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So given this and the discovery discussion elsewhere, I've decided to upload the genesis builder rpm. It's not particularly documented, so here's a stab at how to make a new genesis out of some CentOS6 (or obviously similar): -Install rpm onto some 'donor' system. -Run: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netbo

Re: [xcat-user] Frustrating time with sequential node discovery

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
1) If running 2.8, go ahead and delete nbroot-core. genesis is far more maintainable and easier to muck with on the end point (e.g. having full fledged glibc) 2) The greatest common denominator remains switch based. It's the only frequently instrumented topology cue that is pretty universal. For

Re: [xcat-user] passwordless ssh for common users between nodes

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Correct, should be a simple case of: ssh-keygen -b 2048 cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pb >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys For a shared home directory setup. It's the reason why we haven't bothered getting in the business of user key management because *usually* it's that straightf

Re: [xcat-user] Frustrating time with sequential node discovery

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
utilized I require the vendor to provide me a list or spreadsheet of node-to-MAC mappings, and just manually populate the tables myself with a for loop. On 1/22/2014 10:03 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: I am interested in issues with switch based discovery that would cause it to be gi

Re: [xcat-user] Frustrating time with sequential node discovery

2014-01-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
0A6400 simply is hex for the '10.100.0' portion of the IP network. Broadly, rpm -qf is handy: rpm -qf /tftpboot/xcat/nbk.x86_64 Will tell you which rpm actually owns that file. We should have been more aggressive in the upgrade to get rid of nbfs. At the time, I was afraid of breaking working s

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

2014-01-14 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
/xcat/bugs/3946/ Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Inactive hide details for Jarrod B Johnson---01/14/2014 01:33:58 PM---FYI, that should be safe. The schema updates *within* 2.Jarrod B Johnson---01/14/2014 01:33:58 PM---FYI, that should be safe.  The s

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] xCat Genesis kernel and xcat/nbk.x86_64

2013-11-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
use this process to loop and why the /reboot file is not being created? If there is any further information I can provide which can help? Thanks in advance for the help, Nuriel Shem-Tov On 11/26/2013 5:06 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Interesting, what does dhcpd.conf look like? Are

Re: [xcat-user] Xcat Managers

2013-11-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
The short answer is not even with cygwin is it going to work... The longer answer is that we can suggest things depending on functional scope that might be a good fit for the platform (e.g. we have actually helped specific pieces run under perl in windows or referred to other projects depending o

Re: [xcat-user] xCat Genesis kernel and xcat/nbk.x86_64

2013-11-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
2013 4:34 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: mknb nowadays touches '/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/*, and that is used instead of the pxelinux.cfg default to first few bytes of network anymore. However we did not go out to try to remove disused files, just made dhcp configura

Re: [xcat-user] xCat Genesis kernel and xcat/nbk.x86_64

2013-11-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
mknb nowadays touches '/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/*, and that is used instead of the pxelinux.cfg default to first few bytes of network anymore. However we did not go out to try to remove disused files, just made dhcp configuration result in them being ignored, at least that is the intent. From:

Re: [xcat-user] Genesis Kernel doesnt load

2013-11-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Do you see something in the httpd access/error logs? From: Lohit Valleru To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 11/22/2013 08:31 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] Genesis Kernel doesnt load Hello Wang, It was my typo error in the mail. The console shows : /tftpboot/xcat/genesis.kernel

Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup and Supermicro X9DRT

2013-11-06 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
er list ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit 2 ADMINtruefalse false Unknown (0x00) 3 IPMIUSER truefalse true ADMINISTRATOR Curious, why the specific lock down to slot 2 or 4 in the i

Re: [xcat-user] bmcsetup and Supermicro X9DRT

2013-11-02 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
the bmcsetup contains: ipmitool -d $idev user enable $USERSLOT The one user xCAT is supposed to be using should already be having that done. USERSLOT: f [ ! -z "$LOCKEDUSERS" ]; then USERSLOT=`ipmitool -d $idev user list $LANCHAN |grep -v ^ID|awk '{print $1 " " $2}'|grep " $BMCUS"|awk '{pri

Re: [xcat-user] re-discovering node after motherboard replacement

2013-10-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Damir On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: oh how is it wired? can you ssh to the node? is bmc dedicated or shared? nodels ipmi.bmcport ssh ipmitool lan print 1 Inactive hide details for Damir Krstic ---10/28/2013 11:01:39 AM---OK - I'll try booting fro

Re: [xcat-user] re-discovering node after motherboard replacement

2013-10-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
ograming of BMC. Thanks, Damir On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Should be ready to be nodeset to do something else. 'standby' in this case is 'completed everything supposed to happen, awaiting instructions' If you put in hard drives with os s

Re: [xcat-user] re-discovering node after motherboard replacement

2013-10-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Should be ready to be nodeset to do something else. 'standby' in this case is 'completed everything supposed to happen, awaiting instructions' If you put in hard drives with os still working: nodeset boot if hard drive needs reinstall: nodeset osimage If stateless: nodeset netboot From:

Re: [xcat-user] esxi support

2013-10-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
4.1, 5.0, and 5.1 I've personally seen work. 5.5 works with a small patch to esx.pm for media import that will be in 2.8.3) From: indi To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 10/18/2013 08:47 AM Subject:[xcat-user] esxi support Hi ALL, can you please tell

Re: [xcat-user] esx plugin bug

2013-10-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I think this is due to a hypervisor being connected to vcenter, but xCAT being unaware of it. If the hypervisor.mgr relationship is defined, or alternatively vm.host is blank, but vm.migrationdest is clustername@vcenterservername, then I think this will work... From: Matt Burgess To: xc

[xcat-user] Console management questions...

2013-09-17 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
So as I progress, I was wondering about the following behavior modifications: -Currently, rcons has only one person at a time, requiring 'bumping' to claim input. Does anyone explicitly like this behavor? I'm inclined to have every attached console accept input concurrently without providing a

[xcat-user] policy table survey...

2013-09-04 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
How many people customize policy table at all? How many people customize it to some end other than trying to limit an administrator to certain nodes? I'm contemplating schemes which may one day lead to a world with a scheme that is less open ended than the current policy tabel, more explicit ro

[xcat-user] AUTO: Jarrod B Johnson is unavailable (returning 09/03/2013)

2013-08-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I am out of the office until 09/03/2013. Contact my mannager Lalecha Watkins for assisstance Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [xcat-user] [Beowulf] Cannot run offload codes with Intel Xeon Phi cards deployed via xCAT" sent on 08/22/2013 10:42:16. This is the only noti

Re: [xcat-user] Disable TFTP Service?

2013-08-23 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Odd, if the node is in xcat and nodeset stat says 'boot', it shouldn't do anything but boot back to hard drive. I think you have some other issue because at the end of install, that should happen automatically. As a workaround, you can manually nodeset boot to instruct it to force hd boot rega

Re: [xcat-user] Re-Enable disabled nodes

2013-08-22 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
ve to edit the table by hand (tabedit nodelist)? Markus [attachment "smime.p7s" deleted by Jarrod B Johnson/Raleigh/IBM] -- Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance

Re: [xcat-user] Looking for more documentation on Vmware integration

2013-08-21 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
The plugin is compatible with having or not having vCenter. vCenter is required for certain capabilities restricted by vmware (e.g. live migration). If you do: nodech hypervisor.mgr= chtab key=vcenter passwd.username= passwd.password= It will start using vCenter (and in fact will join things to

Re: [xcat-user] rvitals error messages [was: xCAT 2.8.2 Released]

2013-07-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
How odd. This happens all the time or occasionally? Can you do nodels bc081 ipmi.bmc Then, do nodels ipmi.bmc= That means the BMC rejected our attempt to connect as it had already reached the maximum user count. From: Stuart Barkley To: xCAT Users Mailing list , Date: 07/26/2013

Re: [xcat-user] Lose rcons to client after HW initialization / exiting system set up menu

2013-07-16 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
nodels nodehm.serialport nodehm.serialspeed From: "Crane, Benjamin" To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Date: 07/15/2013 06:07 PM Subject:[xcat-user] Lose rcons to client after HW initialization / exiting system set up menu Hello all, Anyone have

Re: [xcat-user] System IBM x3550 M4 not showing Splash Screen (Kernel Selection Menu) on remote console

2013-07-10 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Hmm, odd I haven't encountered that issue. There is the converse problem, without that, RHEL was left with a broken video console. I need to see if 6.4 fixes that... From: Qamar Nazir To: Date: 07/10/2013 08:01 AM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] System IBM x3550 M4 not showing Splas

Re: [xcat-user] nbfs and xcat 2.8.1

2013-07-02 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I am curious as to whether Genesis is missing something that you need? nbfs was deprecated since most people considered it too hard to use with apps they write due to the uclibc and busybox, and difficult to maintain/update. nbroot-core would have to be installed from an older xcat-core branch at

Re: [xcat-user] conserver replacement

2013-07-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I have no technical preference if you can make it scale.  If Perl can do the job, with say, select, then great! On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: Debating between python, perl, and C. Inactive hide details for Egan Ford ---07/01/2013 02:44:50 PM---What are you going to write

Re: [xcat-user] conserver replacement

2013-07-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
That makes sense and I'll pencil that in. I actually have long thought we should add pam support to xcat sessions as well, but hadn't gotten around to it. I might still be tempted to do an external TOTP implementation in addition to pam because: -Could recognize 'users' without requiring mapping

Re: [xcat-user] conserver replacement

2013-07-01 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Debating between python, perl, and C. From: Egan Ford To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 07/01/2013 02:44 PM Subject:Re: [xcat-user] conserver replacement What are you going to write it in? On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > I'm contemplating a conse

Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1

2013-06-28 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
h them. I could probably spin up a 6.4 hypervisor if you think that would help, my other thought was to get some debug output from the dhcp server to check that's behaving as expected. I'll give that a go next week. Rob On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 14:23 -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: > It

Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1

2013-06-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
t's intentional). Rob - Original Message ----- From: "Jarrod B Johnson" To: "xCAT Users Mailing list" Sent: Thursday, 27 June, 2013 5:02:28 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1 Does the problem occur if vm.nicmodel set to virtio (whi

Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1

2013-06-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1 Hi Jarrod, Thanks for getting back to me... On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 11:23 -0400, Jarrod B Johnson wrote: > I'd recommend installing xnba-kvm on the hypervisor. It's more > streamlined anyway (skipping the first of the two step pxe->xn

Re: [xcat-user] xnba provisioning of kvm vms with 2.8.1

2013-06-27 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
I'd recommend installing xnba-kvm on the hypervisor. It's more streamlined anyway (skipping the first of the two step pxe->xnba) Does that help? I can take a look additionally at trying to reproduce this as well. nodels vm10 vm.nicmodel What os is the hypervisor running? on the managemen

Re: [xcat-user] Git repository

2013-06-26 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Currently, we have both, but the git is considered to be exploratory at the moment. I'm currently merging both ways, but unless some objection is raised, our plan is probably to make the svn read-only after 2.8.2 release and just do git. From: Arif Ali To: xCAT-user Date: 06/26/2013 0

Re: [xcat-user] "Error inserting acpi_cpufreq" in xCAT 2.8.1

2013-06-18 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
: p_zim...@rhrk.uni-kl.de -- [attachment "smime.p7s" deleted by Jarrod B Johnson/Raleigh/IBM] -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store.

Re: [xcat-user] error with nodeset

2013-06-07 Thread Jarrod B Johnson
Hmm, did copycds have any issue? What is in /install/centos6.4/x86_64? From: Jack Singh To: "'xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net'" Date: 06/06/2013 08:41 PM Subject:[xcat-user] error with nodeset Hi I am installing a test 2 node cluster using centos 6.3 as the mana

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