[xcat-user] confignetwork -s wrong install nic

2024-02-16 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
lly, unfortunately, I did not find a way in BIOS to forbid PXE on this 1G nic So what would be the correct way to handle this ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/li

Re: [xcat-user] DNS

2023-08-23 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
ne. The MNAME field of that zone's SOA record will identify the master server for that zone." while makedns will update what it found to be the NS records for relevant zones (which are the slaves in my setup, so I have to setup update forwarding in named config). Best, -- Thomas HUMMEL Many than

Re: [xcat-user] Stateless osimage atomic rebuild

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Errata : of course, depending of the moment nodeset is issued, kernel+initrd could be older than root On 11/07/2022 15:09, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 08/07/2022 22:49, Nathan A Besaw wrote: Hello, thanks for your answer. In my experience, this potential critical section is rarely a problem

Re: [xcat-user] Stateless osimage atomic rebuild

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
... Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

[xcat-user] Stateless osimage atomic rebuild

2022-07-07 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
y ansible-playbook step Shouldn't the root fs be moved somewhere by nodeset as well instead of being downloaded in the same place it is (re)generated ? Is my understanding correct and can you think about some way to prevent such a critical section ? Thanks for your

Re: [xcat-user] option domain-search in dhcpd.conf

2022-03-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
about if, how, and by who resolv.conf is handled which may or may not involve what's received via DHCP (see dns and rc-manager for start in NetworkManager.conf man) -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [xcat-user] ib.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist

2022-01-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
-production with MLNX installtion script (if built) then uploaded somewhere : not running mlnofedinstall "live" in the ansible playbook. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge

Re: [xcat-user] ib.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist

2022-01-04 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
tallers.pl and mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh scripts from MOFED 5.5 Finally, we install (with ansible but it may be used in your pkglist) the following packages : - mlnx-ofed-basic - ibutils2 - qperf Hope this helps -- Thomas HUMMEL ___

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-11-23 Thread THomas HUMMEL
zone information. Hello, thanks for your answer. I was guessing such a reason but this can be resolved by configuring exclude list (exlist) (exclude /usr/share/zoneinfo keeping exceptions with the '+' syntax), can't it ? Thanks -- Thomas HUMMEL

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-11-22 Thread THomas HUMMEL
: Mon 2021-11-22 14:52:00 UTC RTC time: Mon 2021-11-22 14:52:00 Time zone: n/a (UTC, +) System clock synchronized: yes NTP service: active RTC in local TZ: no Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 11/9/21 17:31, THomas HUMMEL wrote

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-11-09 Thread THomas HUMMEL
On 11/9/21 16:18, THomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello, I just saw (because I encountered the issue again today) the merged code: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/7032/commits/16ea67622b6971e83e8aa3edf0d4568b8d784bb8__;!!JFdNOqOXpB6UZW0!5OvKmxB4i8tk4GBf_u-rACHsq

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-11-09 Thread THomas HUMMEL
be in an exclude list ? (in which case one can make an exclude exception for the locale he wants) Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 9/2/21 11:53, THomas HUMMEL wrote: On 8/19/21 9:18 PM, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, Do you know if R wants the link of /etc/localtime to be a link to /usr

Re: [xcat-user] RedHat Satellite and xCAT stateful installs

2021-11-08 Thread THomas HUMMEL
). Thanks for your help. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RedHat Satellite and xCAT stateful installs

2021-11-08 Thread THomas HUMMEL
elp -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] RedHat Satellite and xCAT stateful installs

2021-11-08 Thread THomas HUMMEL
itial idea to continue using xCAT for the PXE/ks part with the problems I mentionned in my initial post. Thanks for your time and answer anyway ! -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge

[xcat-user] RedHat Satellite and xCAT stateful installs

2021-11-02 Thread THomas HUMMEL
dia iso inside Satellite, download it and point xCAT to its content with pkgdir=, just as I did with DVD.iso In short: what would be the best way to use xCAT and Satellite for a stateful install ? Thanks for you help -- Thomas HUMMEL _

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-10-11 Thread THomas HUMMEL
security teams have started requiring this, as they don't like the concept of a PXE attempt every boot. -Original Message- From: THomas HUMMEL Sent: Monday, October 11, 2021 9:37 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue Hello Mark

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-10-11 Thread THomas HUMMEL
/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 help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 10/1/21 18:19, THomas HUMMEL wrote: [Sorry Mark for the duplicate answer - I mistakenly

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-10-01 Thread THomas HUMMEL
uot;255.255.248.0",,,"1500",, lsdef -i ip,mac Object name: maestro-satvmtmpl ip=192.168.148.204 mac=00:50:56:b5:ac:de makedhcp -q node # makedhcp -q maestro-satvmtmpl maestro-satvmtmpl: ip-address = 192.168.148.204, hardware-address = 00:50:56:b5:ac:de Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-09-30 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
looking at the dhcp.pm plugin code I wonder if this behavior is not expected, i.e. boot file name is empty in the event of a boot (as in the chain table and as opposed to an install) : is it so ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 30/09/2021 17:39, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 23/09/2021

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-09-30 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
ge ip addresses but with an expired end date. Can you help me figuring out what's going on ? And thanks again for the new xNBA which fixes most of the previous issues. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.

Re: [xcat-user] xcat dhcp issue

2021-09-24 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, may not be related but I had before no free lease issue when nodes to be discovered booted before the xCAT node's object was created. I think then I manually removed the lease from the lease files (which may not be appropriate because of some race conditions). On 23/09/2021 20:07,

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-09-23 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
MN node (while the static profile has not auto-connected yet ?) - although from the timestamp this the OFFER/DISCOVER I mentionned in 2) could not come from this (same second as tftp transaction) Thanks for your help and time -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-09-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 03/09/2021 16:17, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, can you try the following: In file /opt/xcat//lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/dhcp.pm change line 2729 or thereabouts to remove ".uefi": From: push @netent, "        filename = \"http://$tftp:$httpport/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-09-02 Thread THomas HUMMEL
On 8/19/21 9:40 PM, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, Does booting into genesis shell (rinstall shell) work for you with the new xnba.efi ? Hello. Yes it does. Still if I remove the node's mac and try another normal discovery it fails to boot as previously stated. Thanks for your help --

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-09-02 Thread THomas HUMMEL
On 8/19/21 9:18 PM, Mark Gurevich wrote: 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 ? Hello, I don't know R at all but making /etc/localtime

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-08-19 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, just asking : should I create an issue to raise more attention to this or is it intended to stay like this because it would be considered to work as expected and not needing patching ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 10/08/2021 12:53, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 09/08/2021

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-08-18 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 16/08/2021 22:24, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, As a short term solution, can you use the older version of xnba.efi from xnba-undi-1.0.3-131028.noarch.rpm ? Yes. That's what I'm doing (extracted from the xCAT 2.15 rpm) -- Thomas ___

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-08-16 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, any insight on the issue described below ? Thanks for your help. -- Thomas HUMMEL On 06/07/2021 19:11, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello, Well today I'm noticing that discovery (genesis) does not work anymore (but does with old 2.15 xnba.efi file). /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/..uefi gets

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-08-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
a file can be sync'ed as a link) Thanks for your help. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 05/08/2021 20:06, Mark Gurevich wrote: Perhaps the removal of the old link is ok, but instead of the "copy" we should "link" $rootimg_dir/usr/share/zoneinfo/$timezone[0]" and "$rootimg_dir/etc/localtime" ? That's what I thought. man(5) localtime and man timedatectl set-timezone (on

Re: [xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
site as it it used for stateful templates... Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

[xcat-user] packimage -m tar and /etc/localtime

2021-08-05 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
elp -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-09 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 08/07/2021 13:07, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 07/07/2021 22:09, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, Are you able to enter the genesis shell with "rinstall shell" ? Hello, yes, it works. Hello, actually I'm a bit surprise : rinstall shell behave differently wether node

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-08 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 07/07/2021 22:09, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, Are you able to enter the genesis shell with "rinstall shell" ? Hello, yes, it works. Thanks for your help -- Thomas ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-07 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
opment Lab HPC Software Development - xCAT "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein Inactive hide details for "Thomas HUMMEL" ---07/06/2021 02:34:06 PM---Sorry for the multiple send. Draft handling went wrong on&quo

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Sorry for the multiple send. Draft handling went wrong on my side... On 06/07/2021 20:12, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello, Well today I'm noticing that discovery (genesis) does not work anymore (but does with old 2.15 xnba.efi file). /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nets/..uefi gets downloaded successfully

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
8sasiRH7OdbhySwMUhYFJasouvlcXW5YA$> > > 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 > > > > Inactive hide

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Forgot to say that though I'm not sure, it's possible I did not perform any discover since I installed this beta xnba. -- Thomas HUMMEL On 06/07/2021 19:11, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello, Well today I'm noticing that discovery (genesis) does not work anymore (but does with old 2.15 xnba.efi

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
8sasiRH7OdbhySwMUhYFJasouvlcXW5YA$> > > 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 > > > > Inactive hide

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-07-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
rpm you provided from which I extracted only xnba.efi (not xnba.kpxe). Can you help me figure out what's going on ? Thank you -- Thomas HUMMEL On 21/06/2021 17:17, Mark Gurevich wrote: Thomas, The changes were done under https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/pull/44 <https://urldefense.com

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-21 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
y 3sec between seing xNBA dowload and the start of the image download. What did you change/fix (if some high level explanation is possible) ? Thanks a lot -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourcefor

Re: [xcat-user] /etc/resolv.conf missing nameserver on install nodes

2021-06-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, sorry I was off 2 days. On 14/06/2021 18:48, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: The issue is around the nodes that have custom network schemes, like bonds and VLANs; it's something wrong during the confignetwork postscript. Ok. Don't know if it is still the case but I think

Re: [xcat-user] /etc/resolv.conf missing nameserver on install nodes

2021-06-14 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
/resolv.conf a symlink to ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf ? 5) the host line of /etc/nsswitch.conf to figure out who manages /etc/resolv.conf Hope it helps. -- Thomas HUMMEL rc-manager= As specified on the documentation https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/domain_name_resolution

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 03/06/2021 15:30, Jarrod Johnson wrote: BBS is *technically*​ part of the PnP BIOS specification, so doesn't necessarily apply to UEFI boot, but I don't know how BBS order may be used by some implementations to describe uefi boot attempt order. I may have used the wrong term but SMC

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 03/06/2021 14:47, Nathan A Besaw wrote: This effort may take some time, so I would suggest that you continue using xNBA  1.0.3 for now. I'll let you know when we have a candidate rpm available to test with. No problem. Thanks. -- Thomas

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 03/06/2021 12:57, Jarrod Johnson wrote: The slowness may relate to the fact it would be initializing*every* nic in the system, regardless of the one that booted You mean that a) snponly.efi relies on the built-in PXE option ROM which initialize one nic, according to BBS order at a

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Thanks a lot Jarrod. Well I guess indeed, for my use case the old xNBA seesm the way to go. I should have done it (and still can) more cleanly using the RPM. Problem is though that any xCAT upgrade would pull the new rpm. -- Thomas HUMMEL On 03/06/2021 12:57, Jarrod Johnson wrote

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
case, wouldn't it ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 02/06/2021 20:14, Jarrod Johnson wrote: The iPXE codebase has code for things like UNDI ('legacy' bios generic network stack) and SNP/NII for UEFI.  As far as code running targeting these, the nic vendor shouldn't matter, because

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
a test.. *From:* Thomas HUMMEL *Sent:* Wednesday, June 2, 2021 10:52 AM *To:* xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [External] Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue So, basically, for me: Supermicro H12DST-B with Intel 10G X550T (

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
: downloading NBP file : 10s xNBA initializing devices : 15s start of osimage fetch : 15s later whereas regardless of PXE version, with old xNBA systems boot and spend max 1s in xNBA stage. What do you think about it ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 02/06/2021 14:34, Thomas HUMMEL

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-06-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
and PXE version 2.4.16 while batch 2 and 3 will have FW 2.2 and PXE version 2.4.44 I still have to test flashing this new PXE fw to a batch2 node (which worked with the new xNBA but spent >30s in it) and see if it fixes the slow initialization. Thanks -- Thomas HUM

[xcat-user] xCAT 2.16.2 new xNBA issue

2021-05-31 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
what has been changed to iPXE/xNBA to show such a behavior ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] [External] nodeset and UEFI boot xnba files

2021-03-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 3/2/21 2:53 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: According to ipxe.org And also rfc4578 ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] [External] nodeset and UEFI boot xnba files

2021-03-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 3/2/21 2:32 PM, Christian Caruthers wrote: Looking at the dhcpd.leases file, it appears the determining factor in which file a node gets when it PXE boots if the client-architecture. Unfortunately, I can't translate the different values I see in the leases file ("00:00" and "00:09").

Re: [xcat-user] [External] nodeset and UEFI boot xnba files

2021-03-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
think that it could be positive to - change .elilo and .uefi content as well when running nodeset - have a stateful install leave PXE first but I might not take into account some scenarii What do you think ? Thanks for you help -- Thomas HUMMEL _

[xcat-user] nodeset and UEFI boot xnba files

2021-03-01 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
tateful or stateless case, nodeset foobar boot (for instance) only modifies /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/foobar, which seems wrong to me ? Can you help me figure out if this is an issue or if I'm missing something ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
: Thomas HUMMEL Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 10:32 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports On 2/17/21 3:47 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 2/17/21 3:23 PM, Christian Caruthers wrote: Long ago

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 2/17/21 3:47 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 2/17/21 3:23 PM, Christian Caruthers wrote: Long ago (>10years) I had a similar issue, w/ SMC switches I believe. Putting the exact output from snmpwalk (e.g. "Ethernet49/1")fixed it for me then. Thanks. I'm trying it. Well this h

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
onal Services Mobile: 757-289-9872 -Original Message- From: Thomas HUMMEL Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 08:56 To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports On 2/17/21 2:41 PM, Christian Ca

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
ts (please see attachement) as Ethernetn/p. Still the / or dotted syntax worked previously (granted not on the same switch model nor the same xCAT version) Thanks -- TH Regards, Christian Caruthers Lenovo Professional Services Mobile: 757-289-9872 -Original Message- From: Thoma

[xcat-user] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and non splitted ports

2021-02-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
tax is the canonical one for split ports - if this is an xCAT problem or a switch problem ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
I made a typo. What should be read is: r"ead by xcatpostinit1 in order to launch either xcatdsklpost 6 (runbootscript case) or not (no runbootscript case): in any case NOT xcatinstallpost On 05/11/2020 11:49, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: read by xcatpostinit1 in order to launch either xcatdsklp

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-05 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
the mypostscript.post script unused Am I correct ? If so, hope that helps someone ;-) Note : I still didn't search why mypostscript.post gets removed when an updatenode -P is run. Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
19:48, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello Cassandra, from what I've read in the scripts themselves and tested in debug mode, I came to the following partial conclusion: 1) postscripts - postscripts : ran in post-install - postbootscripts : ran at the first reboot after install They're run via

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
an updatenode -P seems to remove it ? Last thing : post.xcat.ng seems to call postbootscripts "prebootscripts" and postscript "postbootscripts" (which adds to the confusion) : am I correct ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL On 03/11/2020 11:07, Thomas HUMMEL wro

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
to know is this : all those generated or patched scripts on the CN hold some node's info (node's name, ...) : what is the source of this info (local or from the node object definition on the MN ?) and in what file can it be safely removed (in order not to have the template info which will be incorre

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-03 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 02/11/2020 22:11, Lachlan Simpson wrote: /xcatpost/mypostscript Overlapping groups has the effect you expect - both sets of scripts are run. Does that help at all? Hello, thanks for your answer but my question was more about the client side (node) machinery (which is not so trivial

[xcat-user] Postscripts : generation/download workflow

2020-11-02 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
rrect info (NODE=, ...) into the proper files. Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT 2.16 / CentOS 8.2 stateful install PXE issues

2020-08-12 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/08/2020 15:34, Jarrod Johnson wrote: This happens all the time. It drove the following into a hook in confluent os deployment: if grep console=ttyS /proc/cmdline >& /dev/null; then echo "Serial console has been requested in the kernel arguments, the local video may not show

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT 2.16 / CentOS 8.2 stateful install PXE issues

2020-08-12 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/08/2020 15:24, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 12/08/2020 15:09, Jarrod Johnson wrote: What does /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/maestro-monitor look like? #!gpxe #install centos8.2-x86_64-monitor imgfetch -n kernel http://${next-server}:80/tftpboot/xcat/osimage/install-monitor-centos8.2

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT 2.16 / CentOS 8.2 stateful install PXE issues

2020-08-12 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/08/2020 15:09, Jarrod Johnson wrote: What does /tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/maestro-monitor look like? #!gpxe #install centos8.2-x86_64-monitor imgfetch -n kernel http://${next-server}:80/tftpboot/xcat/osimage/install-monitor-centos8.2/vmlinuz imgload kernel imgargs kernel quiet

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT 2.16 / CentOS 8.2 stateful install PXE issues

2020-08-12 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/08/2020 14:46, Jarrod Johnson wrote: Could you unset nodehm.serialport for that node and see what output shows? Hello, I don't have any entry (node or group) in nodehm for this node... -- TH ___ xCAT-user mailing list

Re: [xcat-user] uid/gid problem inside stateless image

2020-08-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
files that have mismatched UIDs/GIDs, after the installation is complete " I mean done by genimage itself, not in the postinstall script ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge

Re: [xcat-user] Quoted XCATSERVER in xcatinfo / wget fails

2020-05-25 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 11/05/2020 20:35, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: Hello, Just to inform about what I think may be a bug in xcatdsklspost: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6704 Hello, actually a co-worker did a fine tracing of what exactly happened (taken aside the xcatinfo quoting issue) : When

[xcat-user] Quoted XCATSERVER in xcatinfo / wget fails

2020-05-11 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, Just to inform about what I think may be a bug in xcatdsklspost: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6704 thanks -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo

Re: [xcat-user] xcatpostinit1 systemd dependency

2020-04-24 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 4/23/20 6:37 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: I was wondering why not on network-online.target instead ? Hmm, I think you can forget this. After reading more precisely about those 2 targets I see that I'm in a specific case where I've got remote mounts and thus network-online.target is actually

[xcat-user] xcatpostinit1 systemd dependency

2020-04-23 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
xcatpostinit1 is meant to run xcatpost to run postscript and also notify node status, I would have expected to depend on a fully up network. Besides, with the current lesser dependency, cannot it race against NetworkManager for Network setup, in theory at least? What do you thi

Re: [xcat-user] configeth hostname setting on NetworkManager only systems

2020-04-22 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 4/22/20 7:49 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: I think it may be the problem as NetworkManager has no way to be aware of it (as it uses systemd-hostnamed service as a proxy). Actually I'm not really sure about this. But I know I traced it and that was the fqdn which was restored

Re: [xcat-user] configeth hostname setting on NetworkManager only systems

2020-04-22 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 4/22/20 7:49 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: However I saw in configeth script code (which is called be confignetwork) that the transient hostname is set using the hostname(1) command (hostname $NODE) Moreover, I wonder it doing it this way plus the semantic of hostname-mode hostname-original

[xcat-user] configeth hostname setting on NetworkManager only systems

2020-04-22 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
rather use dbus-send or hostnamectl(1) --transient to achieve the same ? What do you think ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-04-21 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 4/20/20 7:03 PM, Casandra H Qiu wrote: I fixed this issue _https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6676_ , please check. Hello, yes it works. Thanks a lot. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-04-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
nicips.ib0=172.16.0.2 nicnetworks.ib0=maestro_ipoib nictypes.ib0=Infiniband os=rhels8.1 postbootscripts=otherpkgs postscripts=syslog,syncfiles profile=cpu provmethod=netboot-cpu-centos8.1 serial=S386345X0213782B serialport=1 serialspeed=115200 status=

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 4/7/20 4:32 PM, Casandra H Qiu wrote: I mean this command : lsdef -t group compute(for the group definition) Oh ok, sorry. Here it is (attached). anyway I can recreated this issue, looks like it may be broken since 2.15 release. Ok. Thanks -- TH # compute: objtype=group

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
and hosts tables. Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL #netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,staticrange,staticrangeincrement,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,mtu,comments,disable "campus","157.99.101.0",&

[xcat-user] Issue on bmcsetup disabled ADMIN user (xcat 2.15.1)

2020-04-07 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, just to let you know about the issue I just discovered while upgrading from 2.15.0 to 2.15.1 https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/ thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-04-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 3/12/20 8:55 AM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: On 3/10/20 3:16 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: regexp just does not seem to be supported at all in the nics.nicaliases attribute : "compute","ib0!|maestro-(\d+)$|172.16.($1/250-$1/250/2-2).($1%250+2)|","ib0!-ib0",,"ib0!In

Re: [xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-03-12 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 3/10/20 3:16 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: regexp just does not seem to be supported at all in the nics.nicaliases attribute : "compute","ib0!|maestro-(\d+)$|172.16.($1/250-$1/250/2-2).($1%250+2)|","ib0!-ib0",,"ib0!Infiniband",,"ib0!maestro_ipoib&qu

Re: [xcat-user] IPoIB, confignetwork and incorrect default routes

2020-03-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
that, I was talking about the fact that as far as I know, not all NetworkManager properties (nm-settings(5)) can go into ifcfg- files... -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists

[xcat-user] nics nicaliases and regexp

2020-03-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
quot;ib0!DEFROUTE=no" did not generate, as I would have wanted the m1000-ib0 alias/cname Did I miss something or is it expected to work, thus being a bug ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] IPoIB, confignetwork and incorrect default routes

2020-03-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
limitation but if you have some tricks (to be able to pass any of nm settings via this attribute) , I could be interested for the second setup, 172_16_0_0-255_255_248_0is not define in the network table. ah ok, so here it's just like stating a name I get it. Thanks -- Thomas HUMMEL

[xcat-user] IPoIB, confignetwork and incorrect default routes

2020-03-10 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
","maestro.pasteur.fr",, A side, more general and different, question about nics is : what's the use of nics.networks attribute relative to domain, as in my experience, domain is always found by matching the ipaddress against networks table or site.domain is used ? Thanks for your help -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] External DNS/makedns/update server

2020-01-06 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/21/19 11:25 PM, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: Hello, Thomas. I’m not from the xCAT development team but I’m curious with your question. Hello Vinícius [I was on vacation] In your example you mean that the name server info on the SOA field is not available on the NS fields of

[xcat-user] Adding parameters to provision nic

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, How can I add parameters to the install nic with xCAT 2.15 for stateless Centos 8 nodes ? As a matter of fact, I'm using confignetwork -s to make it static and it seems that xCAT create a ifcfg-xcat- profile for that matter. But that parameters I tried to add to the install nic via

[xcat-user] site table 'noboot' parameter

2019-12-19 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
Hello, I read about the site 'dhcpinterfaces' attribute that: "To disable the genesis kernel from being sent to specific interfaces, a ':noboot' option can be appended to the interface name. For example, if the management node has two interfaces, eth1 and eth2,

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts ran too late for mgt/pub subnets setup ?

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/18/19 6:39 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: (I added a Before=nfs-client.target). This seems mandatory in my case to have mounts via the confignetwork configured interface work. Thanks -- TH ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts ran too late for mgt/pub subnets setup ?

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/18/19 5:39 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: In short what confuses is me is that xCAt provides a way to configure additional nics but, in a stateless context, how do you make sure they will be available (on time) to the services embedded in the image ? This question still stands (especially

Re: [xcat-user] Postscripts ran too late for mgt/pub subnets setup ?

2019-12-18 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
In short what confuses is me is that xCAt provides a way to configure additional nics but, in a stateless context, how do you make sure they will be available (on time) to the services embedded in the image ? Otherwise what's the point to configure them in the first place ? I did try to use

[xcat-user] Postscripts ran too late for mgt/pub subnets setup ?

2019-12-17 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
ov-eth2 maestro-300.maestro.pasteur.fr - same in DNS a) maestro.pasteur.fr zone : maestro-300.maestro.pasteur.fr. 86400 IN CNAME maestro-300-prov-eth2.maestro.pasteur.fr. maestro-300-prov-eth2.maestro.pasteur.fr. 86400 IN A 192.168.153.48 b) maestroprov.pasteur.fr zone : maestro-300-prov.maestroprov.pasteur.fr. 86400 IN A 192.168.10.10 Thanks for your help. -- Thomas HUMMEL ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] No nic found in deploy network

2019-12-16 Thread Thomas HUMMEL
On 12/12/19 7:38 PM, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: However, about your link, for "How to handle the same short hostname in different domains?" : why wouldn't host:otherinterfaces work instead of using a second node object ? My mistake, no second node obje

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