You should also have a diskfull service node image centos6.4-x86_64-install-service. Normally the service nodes are diskfull but they can be diskless.
Lissa K. Valletta
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From: Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Date: 01/17/2014 07:01 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being
used
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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