Re: [xcat-user] otherpkg extension don't work

Hi Frank,   This issue was already reported in https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/5644 And the fix is merged in latest xcat 2.14.6,  you can evalute if there any risk for you to upgrade your environment to xcat 2.14.6.        If you have to stay with 2.13.10,  it is sorry that

Re: [xcat-user] nodiscovery issues - please help!

y Laboratory, BeijingTel:(86-10)82450485Email: erta...@cn.ibm.comAddress: 1/F, 28 Building,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 DongBeiWang West Road, Haidian District,Beijing, 100193, P.R.China     - Original message -From: "Bin XA Xu" <bx...@cn.ibm.com>To: xcat-user@lists.sourcefor

Re: [xcat-user] nodiscovery issues - please help!

As you are using 2.14.5, not sure if it is impacted by https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/5905 But it will impact node discovery, here is a patch for it (https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/5905#issuecomment-448165125)   Or you can just try with 2.14.6, xcat latest GA release.   Bin

Re: [xcat-user] VM discovery issue

Hi Sandra,       What's your virtualization hypervisor?  and What's your real purpose to discover a VM guest?       xCAT could provide simple VM management capability, there is not required to discover the VM, check below for details:    

Re: [xcat-user] unexpected hostname

erating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)    CPE OS Name: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7     Kernel: Linux 3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64   Architecture: x86-64   Do you know how a node would select its hostname normally?   Thanks, Sandra   From: Bin XA Xu <bx...@cn.ibm.com>Sent: Wed

Re: [xcat-user] unexpected hostname

g, but I’d prefer to not do this because I’d rather not have to manage so many scripts.   Is there some way I can ‘force’ xCAT to prefer a particular hostname over another for a host?   Please let me know if you need any more info!   Thanks, Sandra   From: Bin XA Xu Sent: Friday, 2 November 2018 5:37

Re: [xcat-user] Nodeset from SN not running DHCP

Fro most of the command, xCAT expect you run command from management node,  as xcatd will decide if the request will be forwarded to service node. So if your MN could handle dhcp lease entry successfully, there is okay.   Base on that I am not sure your exact problem? Do you hit provision error,

Re: [xcat-user] noderes,nics,confignics

Hi Thomas,       I don't think 'noderes.installnic' could meet your expectation:  PXE from eth0, but set IP to eth2 after provisioning (DHCP or static).       I'm still curious about your new discovering, looks like it is discovered by eth0 with other method, instead of eth2 with switch based

Re: [xcat-user] noderes,nics,confignics

Thanks Thomas,    The information is very clear,  but it is just a bit different with xCAT typical assumption.  But it should be handled when discovering,  xCAT will assign the same IP to eth0 and eth2 during the auto-discovery.   Ertao,  could you help to give more information about that?    And

Re: [xcat-user] noderes,nics,confignics

Hi Thomas,   Just a bit confusing about your context. So you have a node with 2 NICs are enabled PXE boot in BIOS, and both NICs are connected in the same network with MN's provision NIC? If this is your case?  why we have the two NIC in the same LAN, do you want a bonding after

Re: [xcat-user] xcat-dep repository for SLES15

Not sure if we can leverage xcat docker container (which run centos7 as base image) to do it. (https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-docker) If you don't use SLES diskless (we are still thinking about how to building image for cross-distro, maybe a corresponding docker image on that distro ), the current

Re: [xcat-user] [External] How to restrict xCAT's NFS shares?

xCAT team are considering not to generate the default export entries for /tftproot and /install,  but you can follow up the documents to created it per your demand. (For example, some cases (service node,  statelite) requires NFS and you want to use xcat MN as its NFS server )   This will

Re: [xcat-user] nvidia driver on stateless cluster

xCAT Users Mailing list Cc:Subject: Re: [xcat-user] nvidia driver on stateless clusterDate: Wed, Nov 21, 2018 6:45 PM  Hello Bin,   I don't understand your question.  Besides, I'm talking about the driver, not Cuda.   Best Regards   Antoine Huette     Message d'origine ---- De : Bin XA Xu

Re: [xcat-user] nvidia driver on stateless cluster

xCAT only officially supports the package based installation for CUDA, would we know anything make you choose runfile to install NVIDIA driver?   Bin Xu HPC Software DevelopmentSoftware Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems Phone: 86-010-82454067 E-mail: bx...@cn.ibm.com     - Original message

Re: [xcat-user] bmcdiscover is not working

  What's logs in `/var/log/xcat/cluster.log` after you run bmcdiscover And do you have changed the BMC default user/password on those servers?   BTW:  what's you server model?  if it is x86_64 ipmi based server, could you run ``` /opt/xcat/bin/ipmitool-xcat -vv -I lanplus $bmcusername $bmcpassword

Re: [xcat-user] unexpected hostname

10.40.0.0 management/provisioning network).   Many thanks, Sandra   From: Bin XA Xu Sent: Friday, 2 November 2018 1:32 PMTo: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.netCc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.netSubject: Re: [xcat-user] unexpected hostname   Sandra,       So you have a public DHCP server which listening on eth

Re: [xcat-user] unexpected hostname

Hi Sandra,       Is the mgt0 and mgt0-pub pointing to the same IP address, or in the same subnet?  And what's your `mgt01` definition, you can use `lsdef mgt01` to get the information and hide the sensitive attributes.       And Yuan, do you have more suggestions?   Bin Xu HPC Software

Re: [xcat-user] New Service node cannot connect to Mariadb when starting xcatd

*2470C0C06DEE42FD1618BB99005ADCA2EC9D1E19' | | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `xcatdb`.* TO 'xcatadmin'@'10.4.0.1'                                                    | +-------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)   MariaDB [xcatdb]>  On Sun

Re: [xcat-user] New Service node cannot connect to Mariadb when starting xcatd

dbengine=mysql dbname=xcatdb dbhost=10.4.0.1 dbadmin=xcatadmin    On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 9:34 PM Bin XA Xu <bx...@cn.ibm.com> wrote: could you run `XCATBYPASS=1 lsxcatd -a` on your service node and paste the output here?   Bin Xu HPC Software DevelopmentSoftware Defined Infrastructure, IBM S

Re: [xcat-user] New Service node cannot connect to Mariadb when starting xcatd

could you run `XCATBYPASS=1 lsxcatd -a` on your service node and paste the output here?   Bin Xu HPC Software DevelopmentSoftware Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems Phone: 86-010-82454067 E-mail: bx...@cn.ibm.com     - Original message -From: Brian Joiner To: xCAT Users Mailing list

Re: [xcat-user] Sysclone image fails to install, goes to Genesis Shell instead

Hi Thomas,   Got below error message ``` rsync -a mgt::scripts/ /scripts/ /etc/init.d/functions: line 301: rsync: command not found ``` What's your genesis package version?  would you like to run below commands   rpm -qa|grep genesis   find /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/ -name rsync | xargs

Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT

Hi Kevin,   xCAT can support multiple OS update repo on local, you just need set multiple repo directories for pkgdir attribute of osimage https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/additionalpkg/nonubuntu_os_pkg.html?highlight=osupdate   So

Re: [xcat-user] How to remove statefull images from disk and xcat databases?

It seems there is no good method to remove all files of an stateful osimage, @immarvin,  do you have any comments?    Bin Xu HPC Software DevelopmentSoftware Defined Infrastructure, IBM Systems Phone: 86-010-82454067 E-mail: bx...@cn.ibm.com     - Original message -From: Daniel Hilst Selli

Re: [xcat-user] Custom Entries for hosts or other xcat generated files lost

xcat generated files lostDate: Wed, Jun 6, 2018 9:40 PM XCat will not put anything in hosts or dns unless it’s also in the nodelist table.   On Jun 6, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Bin XA Xu <bx...@cn.ibm.com> wrote:  Hi Brian,     You could define those external hosts into table `hosts` directly, i

Re: [xcat-user] CentOS 7, diskless compute and NetworkManager

Hi Stuart,       Is it possible for you to configure the IP on compute nodes as static? you can do it by adding `confignetwork -s` into postscripts. For details, please check

Re: [xcat-user] Installing node from a different subnet

Hi Fabio,   Thanks for the information,  and Did you get the difference on /install/autoinst/node01 between 2.13.11 and 2.14? And is it possible for you to provide the node definition for `node01`,  `site`, and `networks`,  you can remote your sensitive information inside.   Bin Xu HPC

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Understanding the BMC networking

Hi Kevin,   Just got from the code, the error code is returned from BMC. ``` my %rmcp_codes = (    #human friendly translations of rmcp+ code numbers    1 => "Insufficient resources to create new session (wait for existing sessions to timeout)",    2 => "Invalid Session ID",  #this

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: pping not work on a special groups

Thanks Peter,   Would you like to append some information in the ticket? .    And '-Pn' cannot be used as it will ignore the `host discovery` and assume it is online for further scan type, such port, OS etc.   That means if you use `-Pn` do `host discovery` only, it will report an inaccessible IP

Re: [xcat-user] syncfiles: merge for passwd / shadow / group has stopped working after update

Hi Christian,       It seems you are not creating a user, but to modify an existing user's group, right? Could you help to create an ticket on github, and give clear scenario there.       And from your temp fix, it seems the issue maybe be related to https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/4328    

Re: [xcat-user] (no subject)

Hi Carmelo,       Thanks to give us the information, but pointed out by Christian, we'd like to know more about your scenario there.     It seems you want some nodes' FQDN are foo.cscs.ch,  and some of them are bar..cscs.ch.       Are those nodes in the same subnet?  and why we want the different

Re: [xcat-user] Network Log servers and NTP servers.

In most of cluster, the compute nodes do not have direct networking to access the external or corporate NTP servers. Then it would like the head node to act as a broker, it means MN get time from external ntp server and all CNs sync time from MN. To achieve this , You need to set

Re: [xcat-user] Local scratch for stateless compute nodes

'localdisk' feature is also supported for 'stateless' node in case there are some special requirements to leverage the local disk.   You could check your rootfs directory for your stateless osimage, you can see './etc/rc.d/init.d/localdisk' is there (it is installed from `rc.localdisk`). And it