Is it possible to have a functional XCAT installation with nodes that do not have BMC over ethernet available? I have some inherited HP Proliant servers that have a BMC controller but it has no network capability, either in BIOS or using 'ipmitools' (no LAN channels are available and I cannot enable them in BIOS).
For this reason I have not populated any tables pertinent to hardware management, such as nodehm I have noticed I am able to use the manual discovery method populating the 'mac' table by hand; Autodiscovery didn't seem to work (snmp enabled switch, with switch table port-to-host mapping completed. The nodes looped endlessly and never put the static address in dhcpd.leases , possibly because of the missing IPMI information causing a script to hang..I can't be sure. I *did* manage without any trouble at all to get a stateful Centos node to install, but on reboot with the chain set automatically to 'boot' it stalls after the boot loader has completed; if I cheese it and disable tftpd, the node boots as normal. My question is, are these problems simple configuration issues, or is it related to the absence of BMC information? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
