Hi Erich:

I suppose there is no problems upgrading from the version from OSCAR
5?  I'll give it a try.

Thanks,

Bernard

On 5/7/07, Erich Focht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I checked into OSCAR trunk a new version of netbootmgr. It is supposed to fix
> some bugs (#214, #213) and help solving #207 for multi-architecture installs.
>
> I've also uploaded netbootmgr to sourceforge.net and made it a sf.net
> project (http://sf.net/projects/netbootmgr). This decouples netbootmgr from
> OSCAR development and should make it useful for people outside OSCAR, too. The
> latest version is downloadable there.
>
> The most significant changes to netbootmgr:
>
> - a command line interface has been added (netbootmgr-cmd). This can be used
>   to list and set manually the "next boot actions". It will be used to set the
>   NBA for multi-arch installs.
>
> - a set of commands have been added for gathering status information which is
>   displayed in the netbootmgr panel. Currently checking actively:
>   - ganglia status (is the host active by means of ganglia heartbeat?)
>   - systemimager status (checking systemimager status XML file, for normal
>   hosts this will just show that the host was installed and rebooted)
>   - torque status (is the host free, busy?)
>
> - there is an interface hidden inside netbootmgr for cluster power control by
>   using cpower, a tool which will become open source in a short while. The
>   interface becomes visible when cpower is detected to be available and
>   configured.
>
> Next plans for netbootmgr:
> * make the status collection stand-alone, i.e. detach it from netbootmgr into
>   a separate daemon.
> * add reaction capabilities to the status daemon: do something if a particular
>   state change is detected.
> * make a web GUI for netbootmgr, some day get rid of the perl-Qt dependency.
>
> Comments, help, etc... is always welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Erich
>
>
>
>
>
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