Underscore characters are not valid in DNS entries unless you want to be
pedantic and read through the RFCs involved in DNS. Use dash characters
instead and youll be fine.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2180465/can-domain-name-subdomains-have-
an-underscore-in-it
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First, I think confignics has been superseded by confignetwork; Regardless of
that, you should only call one of them.
Second, are you using the ‘nics’ table? If not, please look into it. If yes,
please show the settings for the node.
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The postscript is 'hardeths'
> On August 20, 2019 at 3:54 PM Kevin Keane wrote:
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> Remember that the DHCP in xCAT is quite substantially different from
> "normal" enterprise DHCP, since it needs to only serve a very specific,
> well-defined, set of computers (all of which normally will h
I have a hierarchical cluster setup running xCAT v2.12.2.
I do not wish to run the DHCP server on the service node (SN) - the master node
(MN) will serve the DHCP leases.
When I run 'nodeset node01 osimage' on the SN I get the following message:
[root@c2-service]# nodeset node01 osimage
node01: i
Please ensure that "awk" is installed and located at the location called for by
the first line of those scripts.
Check the package list that you're using in your OS image and explicitly add
"gawk.x86_64".
Sometimes dependencies change and things that used to get implicitly installed
are no long
Did you properly set up the deps repo for your OS? You have to run the setup script from within the OS-specific directory.On Jul 6, 2018 10:35 AM, Javier Ron wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to install xcat 2.12 for a dev environment & after a yum install xCAT, I get conflicts
--> Finished
You're exactly right - the "otherpkgs" repo is for packages that are not part
of the official OS distribution.
Note that if you use "osimage" then you can specify a comma-separated list of
package directories for both pkgdir and otherpkgsdir. You will need to run
"createrepo" in each of the pac
Did you run "nodeset" to generate the kickstart file for node01?
In other words, does /install/autoinst/node01 exist on the master server?
> On May 18, 2018 at 10:14 AM Fabio Moreira wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm trying to install a node from a different subnet of my Management
> x
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Apparently it's normal to have "bootparams" empty now. The values of kcmdline that appear in the tftp file get built from other sources when nodeset is run.My problem with dracut was related to IP addressing and IPoIB.Lots of options need to be set for the addkcmdline value in the osimage to get Dr
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The otherpkgs script is run as a postbootscript and is part of the "xcatdefaults" entry.I'm not surprised that a free OS like CentOS acts this way.I guess I'm a little surprised that it hasn't been discussed before. I would expect Ubuntu to be similar.On Oct 5, 2017 11:37 AM, Kevin Keane wrote:Hak
According to the documentation on hierarchical clusters, one can specify
primary and backup service nodes for a given compute node.
When I do that, and then run nodeset for the compute node, it appears that
both of the service nodes execute the prescripts for the node.
That's undesirable, and the e
You have to set the root password in the passwd table. I recommend setting it for "compute" .On May 10, 2017 1:57 PM, Fırat Yılmaz wrote:
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Yes i set the password and checked with tabdump passwd | grep
ipmi command.
I rerun the nodeset command for t
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Check on the node that the script is executable. I recently saw that when the scripts get copied to the node that all execute bits get removed.I would also recommend that you use the new offer ofed installation script. The one with 2 on the end of the name. Look in the /opt/xcat tree for the script
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You can use "prescripts" to do stuff on the MGMTNODE.
Create /install/prescripts and put your code in there.
Then set the "prescripts" in the prescripts table (or use osimage).
They can be run either at the beginning or end of the action.
See the man page for prescript table.
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Check your synclist for the osimage definition.
I've been burned by that before - the passwd and group file from the
master will get pushed to the imaged nodes and services won't start.
It's a pain, because you end up having to capture service accounts in
passwd and group on the master node for thi
You definitely need to use a RH7 compatible script. Look in /opt/xcat/share for sample filesOn Jan 23, 2017 11:25 AM, Damir Krstic wrote:I am trying to install RH7.1 (stateful) and the install keeps failing at various points of my kickstart file. I think I may be using RH6 kickstart file template
Upgrading is pretty painless. Unfortunately, there's no way to really
know if there have been any code changes that will affect you.
I got burned by a couple things when I upgraded from 2.9.x to 2.12.x.
1 - When I added some new nodes, and then ran makedhcp, the new DHCP
stanzas were incompatible
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/admin-guides/reference
s/man5/cfgmgt.5.html
How are the "roles" actually applied to a node by using this table when
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interfaces. If the MASTER is pingable, then
there must exist a route to the node and the
postbootscripts can continue.
I believe the final code change will appear in version 2.13.0
Thanks Yang Song and Yuan Bai.
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From: Russell Auld [mailto:russa...@comcast.net]
Sent
This is a well known issue with xCAT. You must have DNS working properly ( that is, both the master and the node being provisioned must be resolvable) before you will have success.
I believe this is discussed in the documentation.
On Nov 15, 2016 10:00 PM, 범희대 wrote:Hello, guys.Is there any one h
I have a situation where postbootscripts do not run. I traced the problem back
to "/opt/xcat/xcatinstallpost" script which is called
by the "/etc/init.d/xcatpostinit1" service after the first boot.
The trouble is with this section of code:
MACADDR=`grep MACADDRESS= /xcatpost/mypostscript.post |aw
I have a situation where postbootscripts do not run. I traced the problem back
to "/opt/xcat/xcatinstallpost" script which is called
by the "/etc/init.d/xcatpostinit1" service after the first boot.
The trouble is with this section of code:
MACADDR=`grep MACADDRESS= /xcatpost/mypostscript.post |a
I can't reproduce this now. There must have been something wrong with the pool or the order of operations.
I recreated the local pool and can use dir:/// now.
It's working as expected.
On Oct 24, 2016 3:42 PM, Russell Auld wrote:Yes, I could see the volume in the pool. I was able to
lso run "virsh vol-info " to check the size.
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If you run 'updatenode' it will log the operation on either the master node or
the service node, depending on how the node(s) in question is(are) configured.
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Hi,
I was unsuccessful using a local storage pool as specified by something like
"chdef kvm1 vmstorage=dir:///install/vms"
I verified that the pool existed in virsh and virt-manager.
I ran "mkvm kvm1 -s 20G" which created the kvm1.hda.qcow2 file in /install/vms
However, the KVM/QEMU system doesn't
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f it. The problem is
that the device specification in the file is also specified as "bootnic".
Of course, there is no such device on the system, which means that after the
first reboot, there is no network connection and the postbootscripts do not run.
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Can someone tell me what the minimum required xCAT version is to use RHEL 7.2?
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"doxcat" script reconfigures the
IP address using DHCP a second time, just before it
does the SSL certificate generation and the handshaking.
From: Russell Auld [mailto:russa...@comcast.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2016 8:16 AM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
I found this feature in the site table:
managedaddressmode: The mode of networking configuration during node provision.
If set to 'static', the network configuration will be
configured
in static mode based on the node and network definition on
MN.
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Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Prescripts running twice
No, the script only exists in the prescripts directory.
On May 19, 2016 10:42 PM, Xiao Peng Wang mailto:w...@cn.ibm.com> > wrote:
We
You could remove/unset "managedaddressmode" and use a postscript to change the
nic config from dhcp to static. We used to use a combination of "confignics"
and "hardeths".
You would need to be running dhcpd on the master node for that to work.
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A closer inspection of the logs on the master reveals that the second execution of the prescript occurred at the end of the postscript phase, b
he nodeset command?
On May 19, 2016 10:30 AM, Russell Auld wrote:
I noticed that my prescripts are being executed twice when I do a “nodeset osimage”
I have the scripts set as “prescripts-end” in the prescripts table.
What’s the meaning of “begin” and “end” with respect t
I noticed that my prescripts are being executed twice when I do a "nodeset
osimage"
I have the scripts set as "prescripts-end" in the prescripts table.
What's the meaning of "begin" and "end" with respect to "osimage"?
Why is my script running twice?
The first execution occurs when I run nodeset,
Looks like a pre script will run as root on the node's master
https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Postscripts_and_Prescripts/
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What's the right way to get the sync files to the service nodes?
I'm running this cron job every night on the MN, and the CN target in the
command is one that is serviced by the SN.
/opt/xcat/bin/updatenode -f
Is there a better way to do this?
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I've also seen this kind of weirdness with wonky Broadcom (QLogic) 10Gb NICs.
On Apr 6, 2016 11:41 AM, Damir Krstic wrote:I had a similar issue with one of our new Nextscale racks - it turns out my uplink ethernet cable was bad...first bad ethernet cable on new installation of over 500+ nodes.Dam
Could this approach be used to get vendor-supplied network drivers into the PXE
sequence?
Or the RH Anaconda installation kernel?
From: Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 6:33 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline a
:
>>>
>>> [root@gromit ~]# tabdump networks
>>> #netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,staticrange,staticrangeincrement,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable
>>> "clusternet"
how the DHCP server picks up the information about what MAC
addresses are mapped to the IP addresses? I think that ultimately the
information comes from the mac and node and hosts tables but I mean what files
are the DHCP using to pick up that information. I don't see it in the usual
plac
ledir","/var/xcat/node/syncfiles",,
"tftpdir","/tftpboot",,
"xcatdport","3001",,
"xcatiport","3002",,
"xcatconfdir","/etc/xcat",,
"timezone","America/New_York",,
"useNmapfro
Check the site table.
On Nov 3, 2015 1:14 PM, Stephen Cousins wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had improperly set my network to 172.0.0.0/16 thinking that that was in
> private space. I later found that 172.16.0.0/12 is the real private space so
> I changed entries in all of the tables to 172.20.*.*. I als
Looks like xcatdsklspost does get called even for stateful installs. Look at
the script header.
Usually in cases like this, the issue is that the node being imaged can't
resolve the name of the master node. Make sure your dns is working properly.
On Oct 23, 2015 12:52 PM, "Heald, Nathan T." wro
Did you try “dhcpinterfaces” in the site table?
See my thread from this past July 27 entitled:
“Is there a way to add outside subnets to dhcpd.conf?”
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Sent: Sunday, October 4, 2015 9:48 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [xcat
anipulation, i.e. rpower, nodeset install, boot,
> etc.
>
> I currently have an xCAT setup with IBM hardware, and wanted to add some Dell.
>
> Mike
>
>
> Re: [xcat-user] xCAT and Dell M1000e
> From: Russell Auld - 2015-09-01 18:03:09
>
> Define "work with".
&g
Define "work with".
Do you want to do node discovery?
On Sep 1, 2015 1:08 PM, "Waldron, Michael H" wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if xCAT will work with Dell PowerEdge M1000e blade chassis?
> I see references to various Dell servers but none relating to blades.
>
> Mike Waldron
>
>
t recall if this is required or not, and I am not able to login to a
> system right now to verify, however try adding !remote! to
> site.dhcpinterfaces and see if your remote VLAN shows up when you do a
> makedhcp -n
>
>
> On 7/25/2015 2:11 PM, Russell Auld wrote:
>
>
I added definitions to the networks table that identify separate VLANs in our
environment.
When I run makedhcp -n' it appears that only the subnets that the MN's
interface are attached to get created.
The MN is a on routable VLAN 10.10.10.0/24. The MN is also connected to another
local, private
I think you need to make some symbolic links in
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/centos pointing to the dracut directories in
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh
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"Russell Auld" ---2015/04/11 05:15:29---At the end of the script I see this
block: if [ "$return_value" -eq "0" ]; then
From: "Russell Auld" mailto:russa..
At the end of the script I see this block:
if [ "$return_value" -eq "0" ]; then
updateflag.awk $MASTER 3002 "installstatus booted"
else
updateflag.awk $MASTER 3002 "installstatus failed"
fi
I always wondered why the status would be "status=failed" when I ran an 'lsdef'
on a node.
I think t
console switching on serial
inherently, much to my surprise.
From: Russell Auld [mailto:russa...@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 6:48 AM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
Subject: [xcat-user] Function keys under rcons and wcons
Is there a way to send a function key combo t
Is there a way to send a function key combo to the system while using rcons?
For example, when Anaconda is running during initial provisioning of a stateful
system, it's sometimes useful to go to another TTY
via F2 or alt-F2.
This works when viewing the console with iDRAC or iLO or VNC when the n
I upgraded from v2.8.4 to v2.8.5 on a RHEL5.5 machine - see [1] and [2] below
for version info.
When I tried to restart the xcatd daemon, I got the following error:
[root@head]# service xcatd restart
Restarting xCATd Unknown warnings category 'Sys::Syslog' at
/op
Ensure that the node being deployed can fully resolve the name of the
management node and itself. In an earlier email, you showed
the result of resolving both of the hosts from the management node. The compute
node being provisioned needs to be able to resolve
names too.
If name resolution do
n here since things look to be very different in version 2.8.5 with
regard to ‘configib’.
I just wanted to close the loop on this issue and have this info out there for
future reference.
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Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 1:14 PM
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Date:11/11/2014 09:21 PM
Subject:[xcat-user] using gateway= in networks table
I have set as the value for gateway
#netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,staticrange,staticrangeincr
ement,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable
"infiniband","198.18.8.0","255.255.252.0","ib0","",,"198.18.8.91",
sufficiently populate the nics table.
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Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 12:31 PM
To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list'
Subject: [xcat-user] confignics/configib not configuring the Infiniband card
Using xCAT 2.8.4 with RHEL 6.5
Trying to
Using xCAT 2.8.4 with RHEL 6.5
Trying to get xCAT to setup the Infiniband card and having trouble.
I set up my node definitions as I did in xCAT 2.7.5 (on a different cluster),
namely like this:
lsdef node1:
.
installnic=eth0
otherinterfaces=node1-c:198.18.12.254,node1-ib:198.18.8.254
I would argue that the Infiniband (IB) fabric is unrelated to xCAT.
xCAT handles the provisioning of the nodes. It will install the operating
system and any IB drivers.
However, the driver stack on any given node is completely irrelevant to:
1) The IB fabric topology.
2) The IB subne
I'm trying to determine how the hostkeys end up on a provisioned node
(stateful). It appears that the keys live in
/etc/xcat/hostkeys.
The man page for updatenode indicates that it can manage hostkeys for the nodes
with the -k option.
However, the "remoteshell" postscript also appears to manage
I think you want to "nodeset node1 osimage="
Using the "install" verb on nodeset is deprecated.
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To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net"
Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:25:00 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] error with nodeset
Hi
I am insta
If you continue with the configuration of xCAT, you'll get to the part where
you have to define a template for the provisioning.
The default template should have something like this in it:
#
# SE Linux
#
selinux --disabled
That template ultimately gets turned into an anaconda script
I'm after is the lower level stuff like "kcmdline" and the AnacondFrom: Russell Auld To: xCAT Users Mailing list Date: 04/01/2013 07:54 PMSubject: Re: [xcat-user] Help with old-style provisioning
I'm good with that part, but what I'm after is the lower level stuff like
tecture.tmpl is most specific, architecture or osver or both being omitted is checked for as the more specific matches are not found) in the respective 'platform' directories ('rh/' for redhat for example)Russell Auld ---04/01/2013 09:05:29 AM---Is there any documentation that d
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What level of xcat are you running?
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From: Russell Auld
To: xCAT-Users
Date: 04/01/2013 09:16 AM
Subject: [xcat-user] Updating RHEL6.3
It seems like applying updates to a
It seems like applying updates to a RHEL6.3 has to be a two-step process and it
seems like it could be just one.
For instance, we have a basic RHEL6.3 installation directory that was created
with the 'copycds' command.
Call it "/install/rhels6.3/ x 8 6 _ 6 4 "
Every quarter we pull upda
I've noticed that in version 2.8 of xCAT users can specify more than one value
for "pkgdir" in osimage definition.
There appears to be a restriction that the first entry points to the image
source (e.g. /install/rhels6.3/x86_64).
The documentation suggests that the second value for " pkgdir
Is there any documentation that describes in detail the way xCAT works with the
old-style $os-$arch-$provmethod-$profile provisioning system?
We use "nodeset install=compute" and I would like to fully understand
how xCAT decides what gets done to the nodes.
Greeting,
First time poster here.
I'm working with an xCAT 2.7 system.
When I run 'lsdef node1', it shows me the postscripts and postbootscripts.
The thing I can't understand is that there is an additional postbootscript that
gets run that doesn't appear in the list generated by lsdef
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