Hello,
I am under the impression that the idea of xcat is to allow deployment and
provisioning of systems without having to touch each one or change the bios
settings.
After spending some time reviewing the documentation, I am still unable to get
xcat to contact my nodes.When trying rpower commands, I get a timeout error. I
am sure that there must be some fundamental piece missing in my setup, so let's
review what I have:
I have 2 networks, a private network and a (semi)public network. On all the
nodes (including management node), eth0 is on the private network, and eth1 is
on the public.
The public network has its own dhcp and dns server, so that part is taken care
of externally.
I have a dell C6100, a 4-node machine that is essentially 4 separate computers
in one box.
It is setup with all of the out-of-the-box defaults. These will be my compute
nodes (n1-n4).
These are the node I am trying to reach via xcat. These nodes and the
management node below are all on the same networks.
I have single management node running redhat linux 6.
I am running version 2.7 of the xcat code, installed from the repository via
yum. I also have the xcat-deps installed.
I added the nodes (only 4 of them) to the /etc/hosts manually. I also added
them to the hosts table in xcat.
I ran makenetworks, and edited the network table to disable the public network,
just keep the private net.
I ran makedns and makedhcp. I can reboot the nodes manually, and they come up
with their correct names and IP addresses.
I am able to view and edit the tables. This is a dump of the current table
structures I have.
Perhaps I am missing something in my tables ? Perhaps there is another
essential table I am missing ?
Thanks for your help,
Al Quiros
Florida international University
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site
#key,value,comments,disable
"domain","p.fiu.edu",,
"blademaxp","64",,
"fsptimeout","0",,
"installdir","/install",,
"ipmimaxp","64",,
"ipmiretries","3",,
"ipmitimeout","2",,
"consoleondemand","no",,
"master","10.0.0.3",,
"forwarders","131.94.205.10,131.94.7.220,131.94.69.36",,
"nameservers","10.0.0.3",,
"maxssh","8",,
"ppcmaxp","64",,
"ppcretry","3",,
"ppctimeout","0",,
"powerinterval","0",,
"syspowerinterval","0",,
"sharedtftp","1",,
"SNsyncfiledir","/var/xcat/syncfiles",,
"tftpdir","/tftpboot",,
"xcatdport","3001",,
"xcatiport","3002",,
"xcatconfdir","/etc/xcat",,
"timezone","America/New_York",,
"useNmapfromMN","no",,
"enableASMI","no",,
"db2installloc","/mntdb2",,
"databaseloc","/var/lib",,
"sshbetweennodes","ALLGROUPS",,
"dnshandler","ddns",,
"vsftp","n",,
"cleanupxcatpost","no",,
networks
#netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable
"private","10.0.0.0","255.255.254.0","eth0","10.0.0.3","10.0.03","10.0.0.3","131.94.205.10,131.94.7.220",,,"10.0.0.10-10.0.0.128",,,,,,
"public_disabled","10.106.128.0","255.255.254.0","eth1","10.106.128.1",,"10.106.128.12",,,,,,,,,,"1"
nodelist
#node,groups,status,statustime,appstatus,appstatustime,primarysn,hidden,comments,disable
"n1","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n2","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n3","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n4","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
nodehm
#node,power,mgt,cons,termserver,termport,conserver,serialport,serialspeed,serialflow,getmac,comments,disable
"compute",,"ipmi",,,,,,,,,,
ipmi
#node,bmc,bmcport,username,password,comments,disable
mp
#node,mpa,id,nodetype,comments,disable
mpa
#mpa,username,password,comments,disable
noderes
#node,servicenode,netboot,tftpserver,tftpdir,nfsserver,monserver,nfsdir,installnic,primarynic,discoverynics,cmdinterface,xcatmaster,current_osimage,next_osimage,nimserver,routenames,comments,disable
"compute",,"pxe","10.0.0.3",,"10.0.0.3",,,"eth0","eth0",,,,,,,,,
"ipmi",,"pxe","10.0.0.3",,"10.0.0.3",,,"eth0","eth0",,,,,,,,,
passwd
#key,username,password,cryptmethod,comments,disable
"ipmi","root","password",,,
"omapi","xcat_key","eVlKQVFiOHg5NkFTa3pRdkhSVEZHeE1nN1RVRWZZc1Q=",,,
chain
#node,currstate,currchain,chain,ondiscover,comments,disable
"n1","runcmd=bmcsetup",,,,,
switch
#node,switch,port,vlan,interface,comments,disable
nodetype
#node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable
"n1","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n2","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n3","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n4","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
mac
#node,interface,mac,comments,disable
"n1","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:09:34",,
"n2","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:05:90",,
"n3","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:07:B4",,
"n4","eth0","00:26:6C:FE:FD:28",,
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