I am all about leveraging systemimager from within Oscar more directly, myself.
If you are willing to code it up and maintain it, I doubt anyone will object to more features. On 1/30/06, Paul Greidanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am wondering if there's a reason why we don't use > getimage/updateclient on the nodes to push changes? > > Typically I use systemimager like this: > > 1) Build client image > 2) run prepareclient/getimage > 3) deploy to all other machines/nodes > 4) make changes to image on imageserver or on client > 4a) if changes on client, rerun prepareclient/getimage > 5) run updateclient on the nodes to propogate changes > > I'm thinking this approach could work well with oscar, and would make > the process or making changes to the images much easier. We could > replace a bunch of tasks, and add some functionality with regard to > upgrading/deploying new packages to the nodes. It could also easily > replace the need to run sync-files to the nodes, by pushing changes into > image, and then running cexec updateclient. Also, any changes to > offlined/inaccessable nodes could be fixed by adding a updateclient to > the boot process. > > Another thing that could be done, it integrate the updateclient with the > scheduler, so nodes are updated (maybe rebooted if necessary), after the > node is clear of jobs? > > Prototype changes to nodes could be pulled onto the image by using > getimage, and that would make it easier to deal with changes that don't > work well in a chroot on the server. > > I tried most of this with my cluster, deployed against trunk (a few > weeks old trunk), and it all worked nicely, so I was wondering if this > idea might fly with the rest of the community? > > -- > Paul Greidanus > CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator > Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368 > http://www.cein.ualberta.ca > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Oscar-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel
