Re: Xcat image capture issues
Thanks Dmitri, In following this article, I get to the bottom of the page, where I put in the 3 files needed for a stateless image. I place the 3 files in the located indicated, and when I run nodeset d6100a image I get this: Error: vmlinuz and initrd.img not found at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting But vmlinuz and initrd.img are at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Is there something else that needs to happen first ? Also, the last step talks about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng -to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagename |s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image to /install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img . If it's successful then to install from the image: nodeset d6100a install 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - provmethod changes from image to install: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,install,x86,x86_64,,, ... If these steps work OK, then you can use VCL to capture bare-metal image. VCL uses 'nodeset node image' and 'nodeset node install' commands, so it's good idea to make them work before using VCL. Thanks. On Mar 13, 2012, at 16:11 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello Again, After trying again to capture a running image on a bare metal node, I get a failure message: Any ideas ? Al Q Added new image to database: 'rh6' image.name (http://image.name): rh5image-rh66-v0 image.id: 6 imagerevision.id: 6 imagemeta.id: 3 resource.id: 16 - -- - Inserted imaging request to the database: request ID: 1 reservation ID: 1 This process will now display the contents of the vcld.log file if the vcld daemon is running. If you do not see many lines of additional output, exit this process, start the vcld daemon, and monitor the image capture process by running the command: tail -f /var/log/vcld.log | grep '1:1' - -- - 2012-03-13 16:03:34|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:34 2012-03-13 16:03:39|6899|utils.pm:setup_get_array_choice(9947)|choices argument: 2012-03-13 16:03:39|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:39 2012-03-13 16:03:44|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:44 2012-03-13
Re: Xcat image capture issues
Evelio Could you please check that you have these files/folders as well? /install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py /install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz Also, can you check that there are symlinks for x86 or x86_64 in /install/image/ and /tftpboot/xcat/image/, ie: $ ls -l x86 x86_64 - x86 Thanks. On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:56 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Thanks Dmitri, In following this article, I get to the bottom of the page, where I put in the 3 files needed for a stateless image. I place the 3 files in the located indicated, and when I run nodeset d6100a image I get this: Error: vmlinuz and initrd.img not found at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting But vmlinuz and initrd.img are at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Is there something else that needs to happen first ? Also, the last step talks about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage-ng -to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagename |s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image to /install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img . If it's successful then to install from the image: nodeset d6100a install 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - provmethod changes from image to install: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,install,x86,x86_64,,, ... If these steps work OK, then you can use VCL to capture bare-metal image. VCL uses 'nodeset node image' and 'nodeset node install' commands, so it's good idea to make them work before using VCL. Thanks. On Mar 13, 2012, at 16:11 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello Again, After trying again to capture a running image on a bare metal node, I get a failure message: Any ideas ? Al Q Added new image to database: 'rh6' image.name (http://image.name): rh5image-rh66-v0 image.id: 6 imagerevision.id: 6 imagemeta.id: 3 resource.id: 16 - -- - Inserted imaging request to the database: request ID: 1 reservation ID: 1 This process will now display the contents of the vcld.log file if the vcld daemon is running. If you do not see many lines of additional output, exit this process, start the vcld daemon, and monitor the image capture process by running the command: tail -f /var/log/vcld.log | grep '1:1' - -- - 2012-03-13 16:03:34|2012|vcld:main(167)|lastcheckin time updated for management node 1: 2012-03-13 16:03:34 2012-03-13
Re: Xcat image capture issues
Hello, Yes, both listener.py and rootimg.gz are both located at /install/image/x86/installer_files/ But NOWHERE on the documentation page does it mention a symlink between x86_64 and x86. Ok, I added the symlinks in both locations, and it did seem to accept it: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: image image-x86_64-rh5image-rh66-v0 Which created this file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 15 11:36 0A19 - d6100a cat d6100a #image image-x86_64-rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://10.0.0.3//install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 I did a tabedit to add the nodetype.supportedarchs. tabdump nodetype #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable compute,rh6.0,x86_64,compute,,,osi,, d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, However, when I do this: rpower d6100a reset I get this: d6100a: Error: timeout So, I guess I must be missing something that tells xCAT where the machine is, and how to reach it. Al Q On 3/15/12 11:05 AM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu wrote: Evelio Could you please check that you have these files/folders as well? /install/image/x86/installer_files/listener.py /install/image/x86/installer_files/rootimg.gz Also, can you check that there are symlinks for x86 or x86_64 in /install/image/ and /tftpboot/xcat/image/, ie: $ ls -l x86 x86_64 - x86 Thanks. On Mar 15, 2012, at 9:56 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Thanks Dmitri, In following this article, I get to the bottom of the page, where I put in the 3 files needed for a stateless image. I place the 3 files in the located indicated, and when I run nodeset d6100a image I get this: Error: vmlinuz and initrd.img not found at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting But vmlinuz and initrd.img are at /tftpboot/xcat/image/x86_64 Is there something else that needs to happen first ? Also, the last step talks about NFS servers for the image store. Are these required ? Thanks for all your help, Al Quiros On 3/14/12 4:05 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov 4dim...@gmail.com wrote: Evelio Please follow this article to add support for 'image' and 'install' : https://cwiki.apache.org/VCL/adding-support-for-partimage-and-partimage- ng -to-xcat-2x-unofficial.html Thanks. -- Dmitri Chebotarov On Wednesday, March 14, 2012 at 15:37 , Evelio Quiros wrote: Hello again, Dimitri, thanks for the advice. I have a question about these commands. Below, you wrote nodeset d6100a image, But there is no image argument for nodeset. Here is the man page: nodeset [-h|--help|-v|--version] nodeset noderange [install|shell|boot|runcmd=bmcsetup|netboot|iscsiboot|osimage=imagenam e |s tatelite] When I try the command as-is, I get this: nodeset d6100a image d6100a: Error: Unable to identify plugin for this command, check relevant tables: nodetype.os Error: Some nodes failed to set up image resources, aborting I have done tabdump on the various tables, and done tabedit to modify them to my environment. I know this is not an xCAT list, but your guidance would be appreciated. Thanks, Al Quiros On 3/13/12 4:45 PM, Dmitri Chebotarov dcheb...@gmu.edu (mailto:dcheb...@gmu.edu) wrote: Evelio, You should be able to capture image via xCAT before you can use VCL/xCAT. To capture image via xCAT: nodech d6100a nodetype.os=image nodetype.profile=rh5image-rh66-v0 nodeset d6100a image - this will create PXEboot config file for d6100a: cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/d6100a-PXE-if-mac #image rh5image-rh66-v0 DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL xcat/image/x86_64/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=xcat/image/x86_64/initrd.img imgurl=http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg. gz image=/install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img blocks=512 action=save installnic=eth0 reboot noipv6 IPAPPEND 2 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - note that arch is x86: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disab le ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,image,x86,x86_64,,, ... Then do 'rpower d6100a reset'. This will restart d6100a and when node boots over PXE it will boot into http://xcat-master/install/image/x86_64/installer_files/rootimg.gz and, given that image works fine and maps NFS store OK, it dump hd image to /install/image/x86_64/rh5image-rh66-v0.img . If it's successful then to install from the image: nodeset d6100a install 'tabdump nodetype' should look similar to this - provmethod changes from image to install: #node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disab le ... d6100a,image,x86,rh5image-rh66-v0,install,x86,x86_64,,, ...
