On 15/09/17 15:16, Imam Toufique wrote: > Any documentation or notes on how you have set it up? we are > considering setting it up, any tips or documentation would be very > helpful. xcat documentation is very extensive and broad, so I was > looking for some concise guide(s).
Unfortunately nothing public I'm afraid! Here's a very quick summary of our wiki page from installing our last cluster. 1. Install from repo 2. Configure site table, we changed dhcpinterfaces, domain, nameservers (we use external ones), added ntpservers & changed sshbetweennodes to NOGROUPS (for local security policy). 3. Configure networks table 4. Configure routes table (may not be necessary for you) 5. Configure password table 6. Configure postscripts table 7. Switch discovery via "switchdiscover -s lldp" (we needed to install lldpd from xcat-dep for that). We also needed to use the namap to discover a not-directly connected switch (as well as needing to update the table to tell it to use SNMPv1 for the switches). 8. Configure /etc/exports for extras if using statelite. 9. Define/Discover FPC's (as this was a Lenovo blade system). 10. Define/Discover compute nodes (we do an awful lot via groups) 11. Define/Discover login nodes (again, groups are your friend) 12. Configure & create osimages for your nodes. 13. Set the groups to use the right osimage & then nodeset the groups 14. Boot the nodes. 15. Profit! How's that? cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel Senior Systems Administrator Melbourne Bioinformatics - The University of Melbourne Email: [email protected] Phone: +61 (0)3 903 55545 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
