Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-08-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
sible to change MNs in an established hierarchical environment in my own instance. If anyone ever needs help in this area feel free to shoot me an email. Regards, Josh Nielsen On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > I think we should talk it as opposite way that how to make t

Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemdOSes?

2016-08-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
I see. Thank you. -Josh On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 05/08/16 02:32, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > > It looks like that uses the nics table which is currently empty in my > > config. The examples on that page show IPs being entered in > &g

Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemdOSes?

2016-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
m > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > > > - Original message - > From: Josh Nielsen > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Cc: > Subject: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postsc

Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemd OSes?

2016-08-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
Thanks! Yes, I knew ifconfig was deprecated, hence why I knew this was a hack and was asking. Is that postscript something you wrote yourself? Thanks, Josh On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Rich Sudlow wrote: > On 08/03/2016 03:54 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >&

[xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemd OSes?

2016-08-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
this script to change the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files from using DHCP to the static addresses defined through xCAT, which works fine on my Centos 6 OSes. This is my xCAT version: lsxcatd -v Version 2.11 (git commit

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-06-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
/xcat/cert/ or /etc/ssh/. Might a missing key or cert from either of those directories be responsible for that error? Thanks, Josh On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Xiao, > > Okay, so I followed those four steps with some modifications. I did 1 & 4 > as in

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-06-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
icenode' attribute for compute node accordingly. > > > Thanks > Best Regards > -- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Hai

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-06-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
in an 'lsdef' of the service nodes automatically, right? Thanks, Josh On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > A correction below for something I wrote previously. > > "...and the SNs then shouldn't need newly generated keys (right?)..." > >

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-05-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
A correction below for something I wrote previously. "...and the SNs then shouldn't need newly generated keys (right?)..." On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > I looked at the 'servicenode' postscript and it does _way_ too much for > what I wa

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-05-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
ss the DB. P.S. Also would just giving the new MN the same IP and hostname (even as an alias to a different primary hostname) more or less prevent any changes from needing to be made on the SNs at all (no postscripts run nor manual modifications of files)? Thanks, Josh On Thu, May 5, 2016 a

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-05-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
an think of would be the installation repos > configured on the cluster nodes and SNs. If any point to the MN, they will > need to be changed. > > > > Aside from all of that, it really depends on the particulars your cluster. > > > > Regards, > *Christian Caruthers*

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
ogs? maybe in the > /var/log/message. > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---03/08/201

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
te provmethod=centos6.5-x86_64-install-compute serialflow=hard serialport=0 serialspeed=115200 servicenode=[SN1_DNS_NAME],[SN2_DNS_NAME] status=booting tftpserver=[SN1_DNS_NAME] xcatmaster=[SN1_IP] -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Christopher Samue

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
root issue more easily. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Yes. Sorry that I did not mention it before, but they are stateful nodes. > I have never used stateless nodes and have nothing configured for > stateless. I'm just puzzled what could have changed in

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
tain postscript that I have taken for granted before and forgotten to run this time? I have no idea. -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Daniel Letai wrote: > Can you confirm you are deploying stateful nodes and not stateless ? > > > On 03/09/2016 12:53 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote:

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
vice Nodes are not affected by this attribute they are always setup with passwordless root access to nodes and other SN. -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Here is what I see in /var/log/messages when remoteshell is ru

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
/etc/resolv.conf and point it to the SNs which run DNS servers does it allow the node to resolve its name. I wish the kickstart would populate the resolv.conf file with its service node IPs by default (and I thought it used to??). On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Here is wh

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
error message from logs? maybe in the > /var/log/message. > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > > >

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
id_rsa.pub. > > from source code, updatenode -k is always required password. > > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > > > - Orig

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
r a password is specific to updatenode -k, not xdsh -K or the remoteshell postscript (which run that). So I'm not sure if that is relevant to the underlying problem or not, but if I do invoke updatenode -k and supply it the password it copies the id_rsa to the node. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:12 PM,

[xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
rized_keys into /root/.ssh on the compute node but omits id_rsa. What could be going wrong here? Regards, Josh Nielsen -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data A

Re: [xcat-user] Some trouble with postscripts

2016-03-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
he recommended one to configure nics. > > Thanks > Best Regards > -- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian Dist

[xcat-user] Some trouble with postscripts

2016-03-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
matic of any common misconfiguration you are aware of? P.S. I have verified that DNS has forward and reverse lookups for these nodes on the MN and SNs. Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Ap

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
track how far you are getting. I hope that helps in some way. Regards, Josh On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Well, I may not be of any help at all (and I'm not familiar with Centos 7 > deployment) but since you mentioned DNS it reminde

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
lpost: line 9: > /xcatpost/xcatlib.sh: No such file or directory > Oct 21 16:35:15 oss01 systemd: xcatpostinit1.service: control process > exited, code=exited status=1 > Oct 21 16:35:15 oss01 systemd: Failed to start LSB: xCATpost. > Oct 21 16:35:15 oss01 systemd: Unit xcatpostinit1

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
~]$ cat > /install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.pkglist > #Please make sure there is a space between @ and group name > wget > ntp > nfs-utils > net-snmp > rsync > yp-tools > openssh-server > util-linux > net-tools > mailx > vim-enhanced > > > &

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
And did you ever figure out your problem Nathan? -Josh On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > I was going to post a new thread about Centos 7 but thought I might piggy > back on this one since it is a similar topic. I have xCAT 2.8.3 currently > and it sounds like

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
I was going to post a new thread about Centos 7 but thought I might piggy back on this one since it is a similar topic. I have xCAT 2.8.3 currently and it sounds like from the thread here that upgrading to 2.10 is part of the solution for deploying Centos 7.1. Currently the issue I'm having is that

Re: [xcat-user] Hello Newbie who need some help. - Benjamin.

2015-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
config in vm table: "node1","vh01",,,"vmname:xCat_Node1!", I hope maybe that helps. That's all I've got. :-) Best regards, Josh Nielsen On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Benjamin LIPERE < benjamin.lipere...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello.

[xcat-user] Autodiscovery for HP Cluster - SNMP & iLo Question

2015-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
o port numbers in the switch table? Will I have to configure iLo to make autodiscovery work or can I leave iLo alone and just enable SNMP and configure the switch table? Thanks, Josh Nielsen --

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery & Deployment

2015-07-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
ill work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones as well. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hello all, > > I ran into this issue when trying to create a vm I had defined

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery & Deployment

2015-07-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
development cluster (also which has less resource demands). Regards, Josh Nielsen On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:28 PM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote: > From my point view that you should consider the bare-metal and virtual > machine management to be two levels. > > First, use switch-based discove

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery & Deployment

2015-07-06 Thread Josh Nielsen
Also, what will the 'switch' xCAT table look like with multiple VMs on the same physical host, since the man page for it says "contains what switch port numbers each node is connected to"? On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hello all, > > Our orga

[xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery & Deployment

2015-07-06 Thread Josh Nielsen
ter ideas for ways to accomplish that. I would welcome any suggestions or pointers for things that I haven't thought of yet. Thanks! Josh Nielsen -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's

[xcat-user] Service Node trying to update Master DNS

2015-03-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
doesn't list the IP that shows for the node's config with an lsdef. Perhaps that is why the makedns -e doesn't seem to help, because it picks a different IP then tries to add it. Either way the SNs don't have permission to update DNS. Thanks, Josh Nielsen -

Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
The VM should then PXE boot and install like a normal cluster node. > > Michael > > From: Josh Nielsen > Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 at 10:29 AM > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5? >

Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
to a VM at all with the free ESX license? Thanks, Josh Nielsen On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It > requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones > as well. > &

[xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
If it does support 5.5 do I need to configure some kind of key or license file locally? I already ran my variation on: chtab key=vmware passwd.username="root" passwd.password="cluster" for the xCAT passwd table. Regards, Josh Nielsen

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
Actually, it occurs to me to ask: Can Jordi's presentation be uploaded to the sourceforge wiki so that it can benefit more people? -Josh On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hi John, > > I had a similar experience to you in the matter of the documentation only

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
g for. Regards, Josh Nielsen On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > This is a good start. It's a little bit old and does some things in a > different way than I would, but the overall information in it is great: > http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guid

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
; (once I remove the whitespace between the two colons)? Or is it not supposed to include the Perl module call? Regards, Josh On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Okay, so I moved to an RPM based install of BIND instead of from source > and the problem did not go away.

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
other lurking problems in the tables between the two xCAT versions due to the backup/restore of the databases which might be causing this problem. I'm not sure how to address this without a full reinstall from scratch for xCAT if a backup/restore between versions is not possible/compatible.

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
ing problem (makedns/nsupdate) or a receiving problem (external BIND server). -Josh On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Xiao, > > For some additional details I am running BIND 9.10.0-P2 which I compiled > from source. I used "--enable-largefile" wh

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-30 Thread Josh Nielsen
--- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > [image: Inactive hide details for J

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-30 Thread Josh Nielsen
s > Best Regards > ------ > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidia

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-29 Thread Josh Nielsen
72.26.42.60#60681/key xcat_key: endrequest Any ideas what debugging steps I can take to see why the forward lookup is not being sent as well? I would love to know the actual command makedns ends up executing on the operating system/Linux (unless it uses direct BIND library calls from perl instead - but

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
t; Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---201

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-25 Thread Josh Nielsen
--- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
I'm misunderstanding how the external DNS solution is supposed to work in connection with xCAT. Any clarifications are welcome. -Josh On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hello all, > > I am in the process of trying to move to an external DNS implementation for

[xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
Hello all, I am in the process of trying to move to an external DNS implementation for name resolution with our compute cluster. The only requirement I see in the man page for makedns is to have one (and only one?) IP of the external DNS server that you want to update in /etc/resolv.conf and also

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-04-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
t Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/04/01 > 00:00:13--->"By default, makedns sets up the named service and updates > the]Josh > Nielsen ---2014/04/01 00:00:13--->"By default, makedns sets up th

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-04-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 27/03/14 06:11, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > > What does it mean that "you must manually configure" the hostnames > > and IP addresses? Does 'maked

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-03-31 Thread Josh Nielsen
it is run. Can xCAT be modified to accommodate the "external only master" scenario? Regards, Josh Nielsen On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Lissa Valletta wrote: > It is saying if your site has an external name server and you want to > use it , you need to add that e

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-03-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
ioned above, is there anything else that I have missed that will be necessary to do to make external DNS work with xCAT? Thanks, Josh On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Sorry to revive this, but I have a question about external DNS since I am > thinking of trying it n

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-03-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
ernal DNS option with xCAT speak to that? Thanks, Josh On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 17/01/14 04:00, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > > If it just something with our installation or does makedns do thi

Re: [xcat-user] How can I prevent overwritting of resolv.conf and named.conf?

2014-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
gt; > PEERDNS="no" > > in you /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX script. > > On 03/07/2014 12:48 PM, Dennis Zheleznyak wrote: > > You can lock the file by entering the following command chattr +i > > /etc/resolv.conf. This will lock the file even for root

[xcat-user] How can I prevent overwritting of resolv.conf and named.conf?

2014-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
I have noticed that with my recent restructuring of my cluster's DNS hierarchy by creating two Service Nodes to stand in between the compute nodes and the Management Node that I am having two separate problems with files being overwritten once I modify them. Firstly, I configured the SNs to act as

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-02-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
t; message in response to a delegated command from the MN to it? In addition to that I didn't see a single message from xcat-serv1 in /var/log/messages, even though it is the xcatmaster for those nodes (according to noderes). Quite strange. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-02-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
01.haib.org <http://x3650-head01.haig.org/> from x3650-head01" Firstly, why was a nodeset done when I typed snmove? The nodes are already installed, I don't want to reinstall them. Secondly, According to the wiki documentation: "If the CNs are up at the time the *snmove* comman

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
2014 at 11:07 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Actually there is a disparity between the MN and SN OS type/version. First > of all the MN is RedHat, and my service nodes will be Centos. That's > shouldn't be a large problem. However the real difference is that the MN is > running Red

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
.el6.ppc64 > openssl-1.0.0-20.el6_2.5.ppc64 > openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.ppc > perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.31-2.el6.noarch > perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-16.el6.ppc64 > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hid

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
Could it be the noarch packages being used (as shown in my yum output)? On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Yes, I read that on the bug report but mine is already set to that, and > that is only useful if the repo has the files needed. If it is > perl-NET-SSLeay

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
s you. > > Resolved by setting local xcat-dep repo to point to xcat-dep/rh6/x86_64 > instead of just to xcat-dep > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/24/2014 04:49:30 &

[xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
Now that I've installed my Service Node there is an issue querying the Management Node's database because of an SSL related error. If I turn on XCATBYPASS=1 however for testing it grabs the database information with 'tabdump' from the MN fine (which I imagine must turn off SSL else it would encount

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

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
Sorry list denizens, another issue I ran into. I am trying to rediscover a VM that I already once discovered with sequential discovery, but now it is acting up. From my /var/log/messages log when I PXE-boot the VM: Jan 22 16:28:36 x3650-head01 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:bc:0c:db via eth0 Ja

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

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
Whoops, I meant to write "Jarrod" not "Jarros". I went a little Koine Greek on your name there. Sorry about that. :-) On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Jarros, I know you haven't been following the whole thread but Jonathan's > probl

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

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
xcat/xnba.efi"; >> } > > >> During the boot process of a not-discovered node, dhcpd will tell the >> node to load xcat/xnba.kpxe first and then the configuration file >> http:///tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/10.1.0.0_16. Then the xnba >will >

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
with provmethod=. This is why we are warning. > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > Josh Nielsen ---01/21/2014 05:55:28 PM---On a hunch I tried using the > install keyword with nodeset in additon to osimage, and it actually

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
/xcat/index.php?title=Using_Provmethod%3Dinstall,netboot_or_statelite In any case, what is the recommended thing for me to do given my configuration? -Josh On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Okay, great. I have the new service image created now. I am confused > though

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
installing a > diskfull service node in the Linux Hierarchical Cluster doc is a pretty > good resource for most of this: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Setting_Up_a_Linux_Hierarchical_Cluster#Set_Up_the_Service_Nodes_for_Stateful_.28Diskful.29_Installation

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
confuse NBFS with xNBA - NBFS is deprecated via Genesis. xNBA is > the gpxe image that loads Genesis or your normal OS image depending on > what you sent via nodeset. Genesis would not be able to load without > xNBA (or standard PXE), and neither would any netboot images. > > On 1/21/201

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
Luckily I archive the xCAT mailing list, so found one of the follow up emails. The person having that problem had old entries in /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases for those nodes. See below. Does that help? -Josh -- Forwarded message -- From: Nuriel Shem-Tov Date: Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
if there was a solution reached on that. I wish there was an easy way to display that mail thread. -Josh On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > But by all means if it can be done with only genesis I agree it would > be better and simpler. Whatever is causing it to generate

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
deployment time, but it actually works in such a mixed configuration. -Josh On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Evidently though something in his xCAT setup it creating the files in > /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ with reference to xnba just like my > installation. Where does xCAT

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
22318.noarch > syslinux-xcat-3.86-2.noarch > > > > On 1/21/2014 2:38 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> Yes, I definitely think that would cause a problem. This is jogging my >> memory because I think that when the new Genesis boot loader was >

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
rarchical Cluster doc is a pretty > good resource for most of this: > > http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Setting_Up_a_Linux_Hierarchical_Cluster#Set_Up_the_Service_Nodes_for_Stateful_.28Diskful.29_Installation > > Linda > > [image: Inactive hide detai

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
t; > Can you tell me what RPM installed those files on your system? They > don't exist on mine, and even a 'yum provides' doesn't find them. > > > On 01/21/2014 11:51 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: >> Hi Jonathan, >> >> It is my understanding, from exte

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

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
e having problems at the first stage DHCP redirecting stage though. Check your options statements in /etc/dhcpd.conf to see where it is directing xNBA images. Regards, Josh Nielsen On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Jonathan Mills wrote: > Wang, > > Thank you for your response.

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/17/2014 07:01:23 > PM---Answering more of my questions (I think): genimage -p [profi]Josh > Nielsen ---01/17/2014 07:01:23 PM---Answering more of my questions (I

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
Answering more of my questions (I think): genimage -p [profile] looks like the way to go to make a service specific osimage. Am I on the right track? On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > It is definitely related. After my chdef fixes the entry for xcat-serv1 > looked lik

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
essing it is the osimage doing it. Lissa mentioned how to create a diskless osimage, but I have a diskful node. How can I create a diskful osimage for a service node that will not change the provmethod to "compute" but rather "service"? Thanks, Josh On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
got the same name as the osimage. -Josh On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > A node I am deploying seems to be grabbing the wrong otherpkgs.pkglist > file. I have placed pkglist files in /install/custom/install/centos and > created one the service

[xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
A node I am deploying seems to be grabbing the wrong otherpkgs.pkglist file. I have placed pkglist files in /install/custom/install/centos and created one the service group/profile. In that directory are these files: compute.otherpkgs.pkglist compute.pkglist compute.tmpl hinode01.tmpl service.othe

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
or the > record. IE, dig @localhost dayhoff.morgan.haib.org. If you get an A > record back, your DNS is working fine. > > > On 1/16/2014 12:39 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > Is there any way to debug what exactly the makedns command does to > named/bind, as in what command it issues? Or does it di

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
letta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/16/2014 12:44:27 > PM---Okay, I will look through that document. This is the first a]Josh > Nielsen ---01/16/2014 12:44:27 PM---Okay, I will look throug

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
the xcatd is much > more secure and some things do not work well in XCATBYPASS mode. > > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Cluster_Name_Resolution > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [im

[xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
Regardless of the version of xCAT we have used in the past, my coworkers and I have noticed that running "makedns" with any following options can be dangerous for us, because something happens where it will wipe out all the records in DNS. If we run "makedns" with no options generally any new nodes

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

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
letta wrote: > I expect xcatd restarted cleanly for some reason.Did you run yum > update '*xCAT*' finally instead of yum update xcat. That would have done > it also. > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > >

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

2014-01-15 Thread Josh Nielsen
> 0, 1, yes or no are valid? > > Verify your configuration with the following doc: > https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start > > > > > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433

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

2014-01-15 Thread Josh Nielsen
sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start > > > > > > Lissa K. Valletta > 8-3/B10 > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 05:27:47 > P

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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Thanks > Best Regards > -- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Hai

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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
e error message you are getting is unrelated, would have to ask the > mainframe guys about what that expression is trying to do... > > XCATBYPASS=1 nodels --version > nodels --version > ps axf|grep -i xcatd > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:

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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
gt; Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 > (tie 293) 433-3102 > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:08 > PM---I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCA]Josh > Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:08 PM---I seem to be getting myself in all > kind

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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
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 > thought the daemon might automatically restar

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

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
at the latest version. -Josh On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > 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. > &

[xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
restart the node. Any clue if there is a way to rerun the schema changes? Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critic

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

2014-01-13 Thread Josh Nielsen
echnology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/01/11 08:09:31---I > tried the manu

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

2014-01-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
17:45:21 x3650-head01 xCAT: xcatd: Processing discovery request from 10.20.240.254 Jan 10 17:45:36 x3650-head01 last message repeated 3 times I'll have to debug this more after the weekend. -Josh On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > Hello all, > > I would lik

[xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare

2014-01-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
o this automatically by the switch/port associations, is there another manual way that I can discover the node? Would manually inserting the node's MAC address into the xCAT 'mac' table work, or is more than that required for (auto)discovery? Thanks, Josh Nielsen

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