[xcat-user] Ubuntu 18.04.2 EFI versus Ubuntu 18.04.6 BIOS-legacy

2023-04-14 Thread David Magda
Hello, I inherited an xCat (2.16.4?) deployment environment that I’m now trying to understand. The deployment/management server is CentOS, but the clients are Ubuntu 18.04. We recently got some new Lenovo servers and I had to figure out how to image them. The servers came with Intel VROC (7.5

Re: [xcat-user] Ubuntu 18.04.2 EFI versus Ubuntu 18.04.6 BIOS-legacy

2023-04-14 Thread David Magda
Minor correction: it was in fact “rinstall hostname -u”. -u | --uefimode For BMC-based servers, to specify the next boot mode to be “UEFI Mode”. https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/2.16.0/guides/admin-guides/references/man8/rinstall.8.html > On Apr 14, 2023, at 14:01, David Ma

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Announcement: xCAT Project End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023

2023-10-24 Thread David Magda
Where is the ‘community’ for Confluence gathering? Any mailing lists? Where does the code live? Bug reports and patches / pull requests? > On Sep 21, 2023, at 17:13, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > Yes, we are committed to it being open source ongoing. I won't rule out > proprietary things built o

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT-Confluent

2023-10-26 Thread David Magda
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Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-07 Thread David Magda
s, certainly seems worthy of > documentation or video example... > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2023 11:22 AM >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT-Confluent >> >> Yes, there was perh

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-08 Thread David Magda
tion, how it > is now optional, and how it can coexist with an unmanaged dhcp server and > free the dhcp server from 'filename' > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 9:27 AM >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user]

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-10 Thread David Magda
h Confluent? Or are things expected to work with all of that? > On Nov 8, 2023, at 16:19, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > tail /var/log/confluent/events for a hint on why it might be ignoring the > request. > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 2:46 PM &g

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-10 Thread David Magda
ame is plural, with s at the end. > deployment.useinsecureprotocols rather than deployment.useinsecureprotocol. > > confluent_selfcheck -n MYHOST > > Say anything interesting? > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 10:50 AM >> To: xCAT U

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-10 Thread David Magda
re directly next week... > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 2:16 PM >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent >> >> Ah, silly me: bad copy-paste. >> >> That command gives

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-10 Thread David Magda
re directly next week... > >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Friday, November 10, 2023 2:16 PM >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent >> >> Ah, silly me: bad copy-paste. >> >> That command gives:

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-14 Thread David Magda
u kicks in (the installer noticed that it is (now) running in a serial console, per “boot.ipxe” changes above, and asked if I wanted ‘rich’ or ‘basic’ mode). > On Nov 10, 2023, at 17:06, David Magda wrote: > > > $ nodedeploy MYHOST > MYHOST: pending: ubuntu-20.04.6-x86_64-default >

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-15 Thread David Magda
t;IPV4ADDR='$v4addr'" > echo "IPV4NETMASK='$v4nm'" >echo "IPV4BROADCAST='$v4nm'" >echo "IPV4GATEWAY='$v4gw'" >echo "IPV4DNS1='$dns'" >echo "

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT-Confluent

2023-11-27 Thread David Magda
to finalize things (perhaps through Confluent (3.2+) via osdeploy initialize -a). > On Nov 15, 2023, at 11:02, David Magda wrote: > > Doing a grep search for the string “nocloud-net” in /var/lib/confluent brings > it up in boot.img files for the Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 distribu

[xcat-user] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-24 Thread David Magda
Hello, I'm trying to get Ansible working with Confluent 3.8.0. (Using an older version due to legacy OS reasons.) In /var/lib/confluent/public/os/ I created a new profile called ubuntu-22.04.3-x86_64-test1/, and this seems to work just fine: I took the provided "autoinstall/user-data" file, ad

[xcat-user] profiles with Confluent

2024-01-24 Thread David Magda
Hello, The Confluent documentation for OS deployment: https://hpc.lenovo.com/users/documentation/confluentosdeploy.html lists only five commands that need to be run to create a new profile: # cd /var/lib/confluent/public/os/ # cp -a rhel-8.2-x86_64-default rhel-8.2-x86_64-custom # cd /va

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-25 Thread David Magda
us HTTP/1.1" 200 - """ at the same time as the above is being generated, there is nothing in "/var/log/confluent/trace" or "stderr”. On Thu, January 25, 2024 07:52, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > Anything in /var/log/confluent/stderr or /var/log/confluent/tr

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-26 Thread David Magda
ISHED) """ On Thu, January 25, 2024 16:34, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > What is the OS of the deployment server? > > kill -USR1 $(cat /var/run/confluent/pid) > > This should produce a /var/log/confluennt/hangtraces > > Would be interesting to see if there'

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-26 Thread David Magda
t_to_node ['rsync', '-rvLD', targdir + '/', 'root@[{}]:/'.format(targip)])[0] File "/opt/confluent/lib/python/confluent/util.py", line 45, in run raise subprocess.CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, output=stdout) CalledProcessError: C

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-26 Thread David Magda
bkey # ssh dm-boot1 'hostname -f; uptime' dm-boot1 15:47:19 up 21 min, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 """ > On Jan 26, 2024, at 15:43, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > # ls /var/lib/confluent/public/site/ssh/*pubkey > > > From: David Magda > Se

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-26 Thread David Magda
automationpubkey >> /etc/confluent/ssh/automation.pub >> >> Do they match? >> >> From: David Magda >> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 3:50 PM >> To: xCAT Users Mailing list >> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent >> >

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-01-29 Thread David Magda
; import confluent.sshutil as ssh > print(ssh.get_passphrase()) > > > Then: > export PYTHONPATH=/opt/confluent/lib/python > python thatscript.py > > Then: > sudo -u confluent bash > eval $(ssh-agent) > ssh-add /etc/confluent/ssh/automation > > Then paste

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent

2024-02-06 Thread David Magda
n_hosts look on the management node? > > Does osdeploy initialize -k > > Make it work? > > From: David Magda > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2024 2:07 PM > To: xCAT Users Mailing list > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Ansible and Confluent > >> Yes, I was able to