Try taking xcat-dep rpms from
https://www.xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/devel/xcat-dep/rh9/
Those were rebuild last December with SHA256 signatures.
From: Scott W Groel
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 3:32 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Installing with FIPS
rences of this distro/osimage?
If not, what is the right way to do this?
thanks.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 6:42 AM Mark Gurevich via xCAT-user
mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
For diskless, you can use "rmimage" command.
For diskful, you can try "rmosdistro"
For diskless, you can use "rmimage" command.
For diskful, you can try "rmosdistro" command.
-Original Message-
From: Imam Toufique
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2023 9:28 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Best known methods to clean up old osimage(s)
Hi
Garrett,
Have you tried running “rmimage” before running “genimage” to create new OS
image with your updated pkgdir ?
From: Garrett, Charles via xCAT-user
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2023 3:13 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Garrett, Charles
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] How do I
You should be able to do that if your VM is running one of the supported OSes:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/overview/xcat2_release.html
From: Tomer Shachaf
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 4:38 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Install xcat on VM
Tomer, have you tried following these instructions?
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/discovery/mtms/discovery_using_defined.html
From: Tomer Shachaf
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2023 8:24 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: Re: [xcat-user]
ogy group of companies, you should consider
the contents “CONFIDENTIAL”.
From: Mark Gurevich mailto:gurev...@us.ibm.com>>
Sent: 27 October 2022 20:43
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xcat2.16.3 osdistroupdate with SLES12.5
Cl
Clive, where can I find this 1Q22 update ?
Is it a full OS iso, or just set of updated RPMs ?
From: Robinson, Clive
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2022 6:46 AM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: CRISP, DANIEL
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] xcat2.16.3 osdistroupdate with SLES12.5
We’re
;
>> b) why isn't the .uefi /tftpboot file
>> (/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/.uefi) changed in sync with the
>> no-extension one after install ?
>>
>> c) for duplicates messages : I still don't know why those messages
>> show in logs.
>>
>> Thanks for your
Gilad,
Did you get a chance to see https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/issues/51 and
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7262 ?
Is there a reason why you are trying to rebuild ipmitool-xcat on RH9 ? Is the
version built on RH7/8 not working for you ?
From: Gilad Berman
Sent: Monday,
Keith,
Check /opt/xcat/ lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/updatenode.pm to see if it contains the
code you want to modify.
From: Hannum, Keith
Sent: Wednesday, August 3, 2022 4:54 PM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Updatenode Failing due to noexec on /tmp
As part of our
Frank,
Can you open a xcat-core issue for this and post there the node and osimage
definition.
From: Heckes, Frank
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 10:56 AM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [xcat-user] Version 2.16.4: sles15.3 autoinstall unusable
Hi all,
I updated my current
The dependency package did not change from 2.16.3
But I will update the Wiki page for consistency.
From: Michael Green
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 2:00 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.4 released
Is deps 2.16.3 what should come along with xcat-core
Nicolas,
Is this a diskfull or diskless installation ?
Are you seeing that Slurm package from Epel gets installed, instead of one from
otherpkgdir ?
-Original Message-
From: Nicolas Roosen
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2022 12:59 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Subject: [EXTERNAL]
Sent: Monday, March 7, 2022 3:24 AM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline persistent after installation
Hello,
On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 20:35 +, Mark Gurevich wrote:
> So with "%include /tmp/partitionfile" commented out, the
>
ext4 part /scratchl --size 1 --grow --fstype ext4
#XCAT_PARTITION_END#
Which apparently doesn't suits the bootlader appending stuff to grub ?
On Fri, 2022-03-04 at 09:05 +, Roosen, Nicolas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 20:20 +, Mark Gurevich wrote:
> > Ye
[xcat-user] addkcmdline persistent after installation
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 18:55 +, Mark Gurevich wrote:
> Nicolas,
>
> Can you check if the file /install/autoinst/ contains your
> kernel parameters after line:
> "#specify the kernel options which will be persistent after
Nicolas,
Can you check if the file /install/autoinst/ contains your kernel
parameters after line:
"#specify the kernel options which will be persistent after installation"
-Original Message-
From: Roosen, Nicolas
Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2022 12:27 PM
To:
David,
RHEL 8.3 is supported on xCAT 2.16.2 (
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview/xcat2_release.html)
Installing RHEL 8.3 should not be much different from other RHEL releases.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
Matt,
We don't have a firm release schedule yet for xCAT 2.16.4, but we intend to
release it by July 2022.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
Keith,
Can you "lsdef" your VM node and osimage definition?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Hannum, K
workaround
for XML DOM problem when provisioning SLES15 SP3 x86 compute nodes.
Another place to look for OS support is "Test Environment" section at the
bottom of the Release notes.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
rue\n\n";
Add "sslverify=0" to the end of the line
2. Remove old image with "rmimage"
3. Generate image again with "genimage"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be
Frank,
Currently xCAT 2.16.3 supports SLES 15.1 on Power and SLES 15.2 on x86.
Have you tried running "xcatprobe xcatmn" to see if there is some
environment configuration problem ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what
Hi Andre,
Have you tried the solution suggested here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/xcat-user/thread/030aa723e1174587a62d8be84fa5ec11%40mps.mpg.de/
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it
I think the only way to change module list is to modify geimage script.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Hannum, Keith&
Yes, odd that that "yum repolist" show the status of the xCAT repos to be
"enabled: 0" although in the .repo files it is "enabled=1"
Have you tried "yum clean all" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"I
"Failed to find module" messages are probably from "sub mkinitrd()" in
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/rh/genimage
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
wou
inux" or "$pkgdir".
These locations seems to have been last updated for VMware ESXi 4.1
On your system under *path*/esxi7.0.3/x86_64/, can you find "vmlinuz" or
"initrd.img", or "vmkboot.gz" or "vmkernel.gz" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Developme
Chris,
Looks like a limitation of xCAT on this type of hardware.
It appears we only get BMC firmware information from the ipmi call.
What is the manufacturer and model of your new x86 node ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
Chris,
For p9 nodes, try "rinv firm"
Also, can you show the "rinv" output from new and old x86 hardware ? I
would like to see the difference in the output.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
Chris,
Is this on P9 or x86 nodes ?
Also, when you say "It used to report", do you mean on an older version of
xCAT or some older hardware ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be
/xcatmn
to add "-type=A", similar to the PR above.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Robinson, Clive"
To: &
Clive,
The SERVFAIL error from nslookup command is the reason for xcatprobe
reporting failure when "Checking DNS service is configured"
I agree with Russell, underscore in hostname is most likely the reason.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xC
Andre,
Is this a flat or hierarchical cluster with service nodes ?
Can you run the following three commands on the Management node ?
ip -4 a show 2>&1| grep inet
nslookup -type=A
nslookup -type=A
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
&quo
Chris, what firmware level is on power9 nodes? "rflash -l "
Can you also run "rvitals" while "xcatdebug" is on ? "chdef -t site
clustersite xcatdebugmode=1"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"I
Thank you for noticing this, we will update xCAT documentation.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Christopher Walker"
catprobe"
changes to work with the output of "ip -4 a" on SLES11.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Stagneth, Andre"
Andre,
Thanks for the data.
It looks like the output of "ip -4 -o a" is different from what we are
expecting.
What OS are you running ?
What is the output of "ip -4 a" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
uot;;
$rst = 1;
} else {
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Stagneth, Andre"
To: "xCAT U
I suspect this is probably because there is no "mask" attribute defined for
"mgtnet" network.
The xcatproble code calls probe_utils.pm->is_ip_belong_to_net().
And there it tests "return 0 if ($mask !~ /^(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)$/);"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkee
Which version of xCAT ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Stagneth, Andre"
To: "xCAT Users Mailing list"
management node, install latest xCAT 2.16 on
the new node and restore xCAT DB from the current node.
Some instructions here:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/migration/migration.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it w
Have you tried the genimage on the earlier version of xCAT, before you
upgraded ?
The support for RHEL7.4 started with xCAT 2.13, perhaps that version will
work better for you.
The current version of xCAT 2.16 has not been tested with 7.4
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software
What version of xCAT are you running?
What is the OS of the management node ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Vinícius
-l
lsdef -i ip,mac
makedhcp -q node
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Thomas HUMMEL"
To:
Date: 09/30/2021 02:04
ge is
returned.
You can run "makedhcp -q" against some of your real nodes and verify
correct IP and MAC are retuned for them. If so, you can ignore
this xcatprobe failure.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCA
Ok, the "-V" flag did not do what I expected.
Edit file /opt/xcat/probe/subcmds/xcatmn and around line 19, flip "my
$verbose = 0;" from 0 to 1. Then rerun "xcatprobe xcatmn -i eno5"
without the "-V" flag.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
SOPORTE,
Which version of xCAT ?
Are you running in hierarchical environment with server nodes ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
Thomas, have you tried using iPXE version 2.21.1 as suggested by kcgthb in
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/7036 ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
SOPORTE,
Is this problem related to "xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue" thread.
If not, can you start a new thread ?
Try to rerun the xcatprobe with verbose flag:
xcatprobe -V xcatmn -i eno5
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what
show what /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/ file contains on your
management node ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Thomas HUMMEL&q
boot/xcat/xnba/nets/ instead of
http://:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/.uefi
My assumption that you server matches this line in /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf
"else if option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
client-architecture = 00:09 { #x86, xCAT Network Boot Agent"
Finally, remove th
Thomas,
Does booting into genesis shell (rinstall shell) work for you with
the new xnba.efi ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From:
Thomas,
Do you know if R wants the link of /etc/localtime to be a link to
/usr/share/zoneinfo/. ?
If the link was something like /etc/localtime -> /etc/Europe/Paris, would R
be happy ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what i
Thomas,
As a short term solution, can you use the older version of xnba.efi from
xnba-undi-1.0.3-131028.noarch.rpm ?
Question for the community:
Has anyone out there has been able to successfully use the newer xnba.efi
shipped in xnba-undi-1.20.1-0.noarch.rpm ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie
Frank,
- Is this Power or x86 arch ?
- Is this diskfull or diskless install ?
- Do you have your own postbootscripts added to osimage or node definitions
or just running default xCAT's "otherpkgs" ?
- Have you tried running "updatenode" to see if the same error is
repor
Frank,
You are right, xCAT inserts ...<\partitioning...>
Around the AutoYastSnippet specified by the partitionfile attribute.
I will update the docs to state that AutoYastSnippet should not include
those tags.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
Thomas,
Can you share which software complains about /etc/localhost not being a
link ?
One of the workarounds you can try is to add a postscript which will rename
the /etc/localhost to something like /etc/Paris and then
link /etc/localhost to it.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
zoneinfo/$timezone[0]" and
"$rootimg_dir/etc/localtime" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Thomas HUMMEL"
To:
Da
ot;);
copy("$rootimg_dir/usr/share/zoneinfo/$timezone[0]",
"$rootimg_dir/etc/localtime");
}
:
:
:
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it
Thomas,
Are you able to enter the genesis shell with "rinstall shell" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Thom
Thomas,
Does discovery work with xnba-undi-1.20.1-0 which was part of xCAT 2.16.2
GA ?
You can also grab it here:
https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/yum/2.16/xcat-dep/xnba-undi-1.20.1-0.noarch.rpm
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
xCAT 2.16.2 provides beta support for SLES 12.4, SLES 15.1 (ppc64le), SLES
15.2 (x86_64)
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
Fr
Thomas,
The changes were done under https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/pull/44
Basically including the snponly.efi instead of ipxe.efi. The snponly.efi
was used prior to https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/pull/41
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
Thomas,
We have a candidate rpm available at
https://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xnba-undi-1.20.1-1.noarch.rpm
for you to try.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called res
For #4, you can also include pkglist inside pkglist with "INCLUDE":
[]$ cat cudafull.rhels7.ppc64le.pkglist
#INCLUDE:compute.rhels7.pkglist#
#For Cuda
kernel-devel
gcc
pciutils
dkms
cuda
[]$
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"
Charles,
You can do it yourself at
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/lists/xcat-user
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Charl
Virender,
Are you still seeing this problem ? Would you consider upgrading to the
recently released xCAT version 2.16.2 ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
This might be related to https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6816 which
will be part of xCAT 2.16.2
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
What version of xCAT?
Can you show the lsdef of the node and lsdef of osimage ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Mic
Do you by any chance have "xcatdebugmode" set in site table ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Michael Green
To:
Virender,
What version of xCAT ?
What OS is running on xCAT Management Node ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Vire
Try running something like this from the command line:
logger -p local4.info -t xcat my msg on MN
echo $?
tail /var/log/xcat/cluster.log
grep "my msg on MN" /var/log/xcat/cluster.log
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
rated% %HOSTNAME% %syslogtag%
%syslogseverity-text:::uppercase% %msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"
:programname, isequal,
"xcat" /var/log/xcat/cluster.log;xCATTraditionalFormat0
:programname, startswith,
"xcat." /var/log/xcat/cluster.log;xCATTraditionalFormat0
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie
Check if the user running "xcatprobe" can access "/var/log/xcat/cluster.log
" file and if there is enough disk space.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
wou
"-i" is an optional parameter.
You can specify the interface that management node can use to access
compute nodes, for example "xcatprobe xcatmn -i eth0"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doin
a hardcoded local
directory to find source RPMs. You will need to download those RPMs from
xcat.org and point to that location in the script.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
In xCAT 2.16.0 a new option "-n" was added to "bmcdiscover" to change the
default BMC password during discovery. (
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6713)
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
Youssef,
We have never tested with i386, but I think long as these i386 nodes
support ipmi and you provision then with one of the supported OSes, xCAT
should be able to boot them in diskless mode.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
server on the old MN
makehosts, makedns on the new MN
bmcdiscover on the new MN
rsetboot net
rpower on
After that, MAC address in the node definition should be set on the new MN.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we
Imam,
Is the node IP pingable from the new management node ?
Is the node a VM or bare metal ?
What version of xCAT is installed ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
Imam,
Are the nodes VMs or bare metal ?
Is the new xCAT management server on the same network as the existing
management server ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
You can try:
chdef -t site dhcpinterfaces="eth0"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: "Obry, Lionel"
To: &q
xCAT version 2.16.1 has been released today. Thank you very much for your
support!
Please see the release notes for details:
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.16.1_Release_Notes
Best Regards!
xCAT Team
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Yes, this is supposed to be done by "syslog" postscript.
Do you know if it executed successfully during the node provisioning ?
That postscript supposed to copy /etc/rsyslog.conf
to /etc/rsyslog.conf.XCATORIG and then uncomment those 2 lines
in /etc/rsyslog.conf
Mark Gurevich
Po
#now no hope we have to use rpm command
818 plain_pkgs="$plain_pkgs $x*"
819 fi
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research
led on the node."
Are the packages in the "warning" list listed in otherpkglist and located
in the otherpkgdir ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Alber
Are other log files there, like /var/log/xcat/cluster.log
and /var/log/xcat/commands.log ?
What version of xCAT ?
Have you tried running "xcatprobe xcatmn" ? Perhaps some configuration is
off.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
And what is listed in your packagelist
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos7.pkglist ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
-i
installdir,httpport -c", if httpport is not specified, default is 80.
You can try to manually on MN wget a file from that directory and see if
any errors are reported.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doi
-0.1.14-9.el7.ppc64le.rpm
[c910f03c09k18] 13:47:43 Via HTTP
get /install/rhels7.7/ppc64le/Packages/systemd-219-67.el7.ppc64le.rpm
[c910f03c09k18] 13:47:43 Via HTTP
get /install/rhels7.7/ppc64le/Packages/qrencode-libs-3.4.1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
:
:
:
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC
You can try running "dumpxCATdb" with the "-V" verbose flag.
You can also try to see if DB is accessible from cron, by doing "tabdump
site" from the cron.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we
Can you show the output of "lsdef" of the node and the osimage you are
deploying ?
Also, can you show the output of the "xcatprobe osdeploy"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not
-postscripts-end-here
# postscripts-end-here
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Nathan Harper
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 09/04/202
Sep 2 03:58:50 EDT 2020 [info]: xcat.deployment.postscript: postscript
start..: remoteshell
Wed Sep 2 03:58:52 EDT 2020 [info]: xcat.deployment.postscript: postscript
end...: remoteshell return with 0
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
Which version of xCAT ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Nathan Harper
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 09/03/202
Postscript or xdsh is probably the best.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
would it?"
--Albert Einstein
From: Lachlan Musicman
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Dat
In xCAT 2.15.1 a new script was
shipped /opt/xcat/share/xcat/scripts/BMC_change_password.sh.
This script was intended to be ran for Power systems before "bmcdiscover".
You might be able to run that for Lenovo by changing the default userid and
password inside that script.
Mar
xCAT version 2.16 has been released today. Thank you very much for your
support!
Please see the release notes for details:
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/wiki/XCAT_2.16_Release_Notes
Best Regards!
xCAT Team
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