Bjarne Büchmann wrote: > Hi, Bjarne, first of all sorry for the late in approving your mail to this list. Answers to your questions below.
> > I am a happy user of SI-Suite. I have used the software > to administrate our linux/beowulf-type cluster since > around 2003. Presently, we are in an updating-procedure, > which means that we also change to newest stable release > of SI-Suite. > > I have a few questions, that I hope you can briefly answer. > > 1. Is it correct that SI-suite presently do not come/work > with SystemInstaller? > SystemInstaller is mentioned at the Wiki main page and > briefly in the pdf-docs as well, but several of the tools > seem to have moved, e.g. mksimachine (SystemInstaller) is > now replaced by e.g. si_addclients and si_mkdhcpstatic > (SystemImager). SystemInstaller is not maintained anymore. AFAIK the most recent release of SystemInstaller can be found in the OSCAR repository. See: http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/trac/oscar/browser/trunk/packages/sis/SRPMS > > 2. Does new (v.4) SystemImager keep a database of > corresponding nodenames, mac-addresses, IP-addresses, > image-names etc, as available from "old" mksimachine > (without arguments)? No, hostname<->mac-addr mapping is kept only in your dhcpd config file. But in perspective it would be great to put everything in a single DB. At the moment (4.0.2) the image<->clients relationships are stored in a XML file (/etc/systemimager/cluster.xml), that can be changed by the new si_clusterconfig(8) tool), informations about the state of the installations are stored in another XML file (/var/lib/systemimager/clients.xml) by the monitoring interface (see http://wiki.systemimager.org/index.php/Monitoring) and, as said above, hostname<->mac-address info are stored directly in the dhcpd.conf. The unified DB backend would be great, but we need more developers to do so. At the moment I'm the only active developer and maintainer, so if nothing changes, this feature will simply require a lot of time to be implemented (I suppose). > I would like to get information about the "present state" > like the "old" mksimachine output. > > 3. Can I enter MAC-address information into SystemImager > without going through the si_mkdhcpstatic script? No, but I wrote a simple script to modify the mac addresses directly in dhcpd.conf in a simpler way. I can send it if you're insterested, but it's implemented to get the mac addresses directly from the IBM Bladecenter management modules and automatically stores the MACs in dhcpd.conf, so probably they need some changes to be adapted to your needs. > Often, we may have the MAC-information on hand. > Maybe it is as simple, as just adding lines to dhcpd.conf > manually (if the info is not stored anywhere else)? > > Finally, let me thank you for a truly great piece of > software. I does a great deal to simplify the otherwise > daunting task for setup and maintainace of clusters. Thanks, -Andrea ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
