I'm a long time user of systemimager. I've used it for four different clusters over the last 5 years, always upgrading to the latest version when it's time to upgrade the base os on the cluster. It's always been a godsend in maintaining these clusters.
Now I'm upgrading/reinstalling a cluster to RHEL5 and am having some problems with systemimager. I've tried using both 3.8.1 and 3.9.1 rpms. I set up a golden client, create an image, set up netboot, etc. Everything seems to work mostly fine. I'm trying to use static ip addresses for the first time (usually I just use static dhcp) and after the first boot of a new node, the ifcfg-eth0 is set to dhcp even though there exists ifcfg-eth0.bak with the correct static ip setup. I can fix that but that did seem strange. The big problem comes when I want to update a node. I prepare the golden client, update the image on the server, etc. When I push the update onto one of the nodes, critical things start getting deleted during the rsync. With 3.8.1, I've had all of /dev wiped out, rendering the node useless until a reboot. With 3.9.1, the update wipes out /etc/modprobe.conf such that a subsequent reboot causes the node to have no network. If the node loses it's network, it might as well be shut off. I've used systemimager for a while and I've never had any problems with it. It almost seems like it's trying to do too much (or at least maybe systemconfigurator?). The initial image of a node seems to work fine but subsequent updates in all my testing have broken things. Is any of this a know problem area? Has anyone used SI with RHEL5? Is there some way to make systemconfigurator do less, like almost nothing? Thanks, tjb -- ======================================================================= | Thomas Baker email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Systems Programmer | | Research Computing Center voice: (603) 862-4490 | | University of New Hampshire fax: (603) 862-1761 | | 332 Morse Hall | | Durham, NH 03824 USA http://wintermute.sr.unh.edu/~tjb | ======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
