I'm curious. What is the vendor app?
On Apr 22, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Lou Biskup <[email protected]> wrote:
> They didn't "get" psh from anywhere - they just assumed (incorrectly) that
> any cluster that their software would be run on would be managed by xCAT and
> that, therefore, psh would be available for their application to use.
> Unfortunately, we've had to keep CSM on life support for much longer than we
> had planned and psh isn't available on our systems. The equivalent function
> is provided in CSM by dsh, which can be used independently of the rest of
> CSM. Unfortunately, the application isn't written to interface to dsh and
> there is no interest in making it do so since IBM no longer supports CSM on
> Linux.
>
> In any event, the lead on pdsh paid off, and we've downloaded it and already
> have it installed and operational on a couple of systems where it is needed.
> The vendor application supports the use of both psh and pdsh, but not dsh.
> Since we now have pdsh, the problem has been solved. Thanks to all for their
> responses to my query!
>
> Lou
>
> <graycol.gif>Lissa Valletta---04/22/2013 02:01:49 PM---I guess my question is
> where did they get the psh before? Why cannot they not be using the psh t
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> I guess my question is where did they get the psh before? Why cannot they
> not be using the psh they have always used. There was no psh in csm?
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> Lissa K. Valletta
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> <graycol.gif>Lou Biskup---04/22/2013 10:27:51 AM---Hi Lissa, Thanks for your
> responses. I was trying to use the psh that comes with the
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> From: Lou Biskup/Fishkill/IBM@IBMUS
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
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> Date: 04/22/2013 10:27 AM
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Can psh be used without installing the entire xCAT
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> Hi Lissa,
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> Thanks for your responses. I was trying to use the psh that comes with the
> latest release of xcat that I installed from sourceforge. The system is Red
> Hat EL5. What I attempted to do is try to install the client RPM and
> whatever dependencies came with it since it seemed like psh was sort of a
> separable thing that wouldn't require a whole lot of infrastructure under it.
> However, once I saw directories containing files with RSA keys in them, I
> started to get the idea that this wasn't the case. The responses from the
> mailing list have confirmed that this is not the case.
>
> I'll ask the vendor how easy it would be for them to modify their application
> to use alternatives to psh and/or if their usage is such that I can put
> together a wrapper script that invokes dsh or pdsh under the covers. Thanks
> to all for the help.
>
> Lou
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> <graycol.gif>Lissa Valletta---04/22/2013 08:25:59 AM---What psh were you
> using? If it was the AIX one, then you should still be able to use it. It
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> What psh were you using? If it was the AIX one, then you should still be
> able to use it. It is just on a different path from psh in xCAT. You
> probably changed you paths by installing the xCAT client. The xCAT client
> still requires an xCAT Management node to be running.
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> Lissa K. Valletta
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> <graycol.gif>John Simpson---04/19/2013 07:49:12 AM---Lou, I am not sure if
> you can accomplish this or not but there is a document
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> From: John Simpson/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date: 04/19/2013 07:49 AM
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Can psh be used without installing the entire xCAT
> infrasturcture
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> Lou,
>
> I am not sure if you can accomplish this or not but there is a document that
> explains migration from CSM to xCAT and it might provide some help.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=CSM_to_xCAT_Migration
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> John Simpson
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> <graycol.gif>Lou Biskup---04/18/2013 06:42:58 PM---We have an application
> that uses psh, but have not had an opportunity to convert our clusters from C
>
> From: Lou Biskup/Fishkill/IBM@IBMUS
> To: [email protected],
> Date: 04/18/2013 06:42 PM
> Subject: [xcat-user] Can psh be used without installing the entire xCAT
> infrasturcture
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>
> We have an application that uses psh, but have not had an opportunity to
> convert our clusters from CSM to xCAT. We've installed xCAT-client and its
> pre-reqs on a node, but can't get psh to do anything after doing this.
> Without a populated .xcat directory, psh comes back with "Connection failure:
> No such file or directory". If I copy the .xcat directory that I created on
> a test system into root's home directory, the message changes to "Connection
> failure: Connection refused".
>
> Is it possible to use what would seem like a separable piece of xcat without
> dragging the whole ball of wax with it (you can use dsh independently of
> CSM)? If so, is there a simple process somewhere that explains how to do
> this? Or do I need the whole thing in order to use any piece of it?
>
> Thanks!
>
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