Answering more of my questions (I think): genimage -p [profile] looks like
the way to go to make a service specific osimage. Am I on the right track?
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org>wrote:
> It is definitely related. After my chdef fixes the entry for xcat-serv1
> looked like this:
>
> profile=service
> provmethod=install
>
> and after a ""nodeset xcat-serv1 osimage=centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute"
> it looked like this:
>
> profile=compute
> provmethod=centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute
>
> The osimage or something else in a table that "nodeset" parses is changing
> the associations of the service node. I guess I need a "service specific"
> osimage. Nothing I can see in my xcat tables associates the service node
> with the "compute" group as all so I'm guessing it is the osimage doing it.
> Lissa mentioned how to create a diskless osimage, but I have a diskful
> node. How can I create a diskful osimage for a service node that will not
> change the provmethod to "compute" but rather "service"?
>
> Thanks,
> Josh
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org>wrote:
>
>> Nevermind, it was the funky "provmethod" value. Would provisioning it
>> with "nodeset xcat-serv1 osimage=centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute" change
>> the "provmethod" to the same thing as the osimage? The provmethod needs to
>> simply be "install". Not sure how it got the same name as the osimage.
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Josh Nielsen
>> <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org>wrote:
>>
>>> A node I am deploying seems to be grabbing the wrong otherpkgs.pkglist
>>> file. I have placed pkglist files in /install/custom/install/centos and
>>> created one the service group/profile. In that directory are these files:
>>>
>>> compute.otherpkgs.pkglist
>>> compute.pkglist
>>> compute.tmpl
>>> hinode01.tmpl
>>> service.otherpkgs.pkglist
>>> service.tmpl
>>>
>>> I want to use the "service.otherpkgs.pkglist" file. I deployed a node
>>> xcat-serv1 which belongs to the service group but it did not install the
>>> RPMs I specified in the otherpkgs.pkglist file for 'service'. When I did an
>>> lsdef I saw that the profile was set to "compute" and realized that would
>>> be a problem so I changed it to 'service' as well and tried an "updatenode
>>> xcat-serv1 otherpkgs" but it didn't make a difference. Here is the current
>>> node definition:
>>>
>>> [root@x3650-head01 centos]# lsdef xcat-serv1
>>> Object name: xcat-serv1
>>> arch=x86_64
>>> currchain=boot
>>> currstate=boot
>>> groups=service,ipmi,all
>>> initrd=xcat/osimage/centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute/initrd.img
>>> installnic=mac
>>> kernel=xcat/osimage/centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute/vmlinuz
>>> netboot=xnba
>>> nodetype=osi
>>> os=centos6.4
>>>
>>> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,ospkgs,addsiteyum,otherpkgs,syncfiles,ifcfg-eth,fstab,servicenode
>>> primarynic=mac
>>> profile=service
>>> provmethod=centos6.4-x86_64-install-compute
>>> <snipped>
>>>
>>> The "groups" and "profile" look correct now, but I still can't get the
>>> right packages to install. Is there a particular line in the "otherpkgs"
>>> postscript I could use to print a variable with the file name of the file
>>> chosen/matched against? I looked but only found a variable with the actual
>>> parsed packages from whatever file it chose. It looks like it is using the
>>> compute.otherpkgs.pkglist. I can't quite figure out why it wouldn't match
>>> though.
>>>
>>> This page seems to indicate that my directory and nomenclature for the
>>> files is correct:
>>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Using_Provmethod%3Dinstall,netboot_or_statelite.
>>> And I know the kickstarts from that folder work since they are used during
>>> provisioning.
>>>
>>> It is usually something simple. Does anyone see what I am missing?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Josh
>>>
>>
>>
>
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