mpute node ?
Even though you showed the table contents for linuximage and osimage, can
you show the output of "lsdef -t osimage compute-install" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not b
Russell,
Glad to hear that. I have seen cases where a volume would get into an odd
state, but running "vol-info", would fix it.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called r
Russell,
Were you able to see that the storage pool actually knows about your
volume, using "virsh vol-list "
You can also run "virsh vol-info " to check the size.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
Do you by any chance have more than 1 qcow2 disk defined for that vm ?
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: Russell Auld <russa..
Nora,
These instructions might help:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/sysclone/sysclone.html
When following them, the "golden client ", I think, will be your local
host machine that you want to capture.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software D
Maybe this will help:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/mixed_cluster/power/diskless.html
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
Nora,
What format are your operating system images ? Are they ".iso" files ?
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: Nora
ead.
There is also a section for troubleshooting:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/FAQ.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not b
James,
If you are trying to boot a VM, there is no need to use "rsetboot".
Use "rinstall" command instead. It will do "nodeset", "rsetboot" (if
needed) and "rpower" for you.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Develop
Siddharth,
Does your script go through steps of creating a VM from scratch (mkdef ->
mkvm -> nodeset -> rpower) for each VM ?
Have you tried putting a 1 second sleep between each step of creation, or
between each VM poweron ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software De
It is
/opt/xcat/share/xcat/scripts/setup-local-client.sh
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: Jarrod Johnson <jjohns.
n using xCAT
node object, you will be back to your original settings. You can use
"chdef" to change the xCAT's VM node object 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,
wou
Siddharth,
If you do "man makehosts" you will see "-d" option. That allows you to
remove only the nodes specified in the "noderange".
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it w
/references/man7/osimage.7.html
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: Nora D <uniqu...@live.com>
To: xCAT Users Mailing
ture. The file
should contain something similar to "
xcat/xcat-dep///systemimager-client"
5. On management node run "updatenode -S". This should
update the golden client machine with the systemimager packages.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Develop
he os_gold machine (instead of doing steps 4 and 5
below). For instructions on how to do that:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/sysclone/sysclone.html#known-issue
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were
gz file,
"imgexport" command expects as input, an existing xCAT osimage object
definition.
Perhaps someone on this mailing list knows how to turn .img file into xCAT
image definition ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
Nora,
All these commands get executed on 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: Nora D <uniqu...@live.com&
MN, you
should see something like:
: systemimager-client-4.3.0-0.1.noarch
: systemimager-common-4.3.0-0.1.noarch
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 Einst
Nora,
1. Are you able to "ssh os_gold" ?
2. Is anything displayed when you do "lsdef -t osimage" on 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,
wou
Yes,
The instructions are here:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/docker/index.html
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
Nora,
What format as these captured images? Are they .iso files ?
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: Nora D <uniq
I am assuming you are trying to do "yum install kvm" on the xCAT
Management Node ?
If so, try "yum install *virt*" instead.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called resea
If you are using a recent version of xCAT, you might have more luck
following updated VM instructions here:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/index.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development
file on compute node to see if your
output is there ?
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: Siddharth Tiwari <siddharth.tiw...@live.com
Siddharth,
Try this suggestion:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/FAQ.html#rpower-fails-with-error-internal-error-process-exited-while-connecting-to-monitor-qemu-permission-denied
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC
Siddharth, where did you expect your logging to appear ?
Are you looking inside /var/log/xcat/xcat.log file on compute node ?
Are you looking inside /var/log/xcat/computes.log file on management node
?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
ml
Step 2 is to create and install the VM with that OS image:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/virtual_machines/manage_vms.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were
and deploy
it.
Statefull images are more flexible, you use the same xCAT management node
to deploy slaves with different OS.
You can find the differences between stateless and statefull discussed
here:
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/admin-guides/basic_concepts/node_type.html
Mar
1. Are you able to ping 10.0.0.20 ? If not run "makehosts os_gold".
2. Has os_gold VM been provisioned with an OS ? If not, do you have an
osimage definition to be installed on os_gold ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what
Mark,
I do not think xCAT can do that. In order for xCAT to control power, it
needs an object definition to operate on.
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?"
Firat,
Did you set the compute node password as described here (first bullet
under #1):
http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/configure/password.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
Chris,
Interesting find.
What do you see when you run "nodels dn[22-23]" ?
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: &q
Matthias,
I am curious what setting you have for "hypervisor.type".
Can you run something like "tabdump hypervisor | grep kvmhost1"
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not b
You are right Jarrod, it seems like 'hypervisor:type' in kvm.pm should
work, but it fails with the same error message.
I will investigate.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
ut why a more generic
'hypervisor:type' is not working.
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: matthias.m...@arz.at
To: xCAT Users
What version of xCAT are you using - "lsxcatd -a"
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: "f...@ongineer.cn" <f.
Not sure what is going on yet.
But what version of xCAT? (lsxcatd -a)
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: Matthias Merk
To:
the output of
lsdef —osimage
so I can see what is needed and what I’m missing?
On Sep 24, 2018, at 9:45 AM, Mark Gurevich
wrote:
David,
Have you looked at this section of the doc ?
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/
David,
Have you looked at this section of the doc ?
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/index.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called res
Could it be that DHCP lease for this node has expired after a few days ?
While this node is hanging, trying to get the image from the server, are
you able to provision a different diskless node with the same OS image ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
Is it possible the node definition for compute11 contains entries for
bmcpassword or bmcusername that are different from compute10 ?
Or maybe bmc attribute for compute11 is not pointing to the right bmc ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we
I think XCATROOT gets set by "sourcing" /etc/profile.d/xcat.sh
from /opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd and /opt/xcat/sbin/restartxcatd
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
woul
You can review some of the tunable suggestions at
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/performance_tuning/xcatd_tuning.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research,
Is litetree there on both SN and MN ?
The command "XCATBYPASS=Y litetree" gets called from setupNFSTree() in
xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/SvrUtils.pm
Maybe it needs to be changed to the absolute path to litetree ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xC
Can you post the compute1 node definition ("lsdef compute1")
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: ABATCHA OLLOH
/backup_restore_xcat.html
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: "Huette, Antoine"
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 09/26/2019 11:53 AM
Subje
e
* Invoke it with "updatenode -P "
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: Daniel Hilst via xCAT-user
To: xCAT Users Mailing li
xCAT version 2.15 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_2.15_Release_Notes
Best Regards!
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BMC failed: 500 Can't connect to
10.5.14.1:443 (Connection refused).
f5u14: [fs2vm101]: Error: BMC did not respond. Validate BMC configuration
and retry the command.
[root@fs2vm101 ~]#
What version of xCAT are you running ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xC
n see if gpu1413 has an entry
there ?
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: David Johnson
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date:
c',
rinv => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
rpower => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
rsetboot => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
rvitals=> 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
rspconfig => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
reventlog => 'nodehm:mgt=openbmc',
David,
The definition for the node appears to be correct.
Can you uninstall xCAT-openbmc-py-2.14.6-snap201903290319.noarch and the
two dependencies you installed manually, and see if that helps ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew
792]: INFO xCAT: Allowing rpower to
stat -V for root from localhost
Oct 21 15:02:53 fs2vm101 xcat[15794]: DEBUG xcatd: handle request 'rpower'
by plugin 'openbmc''s preprocess_request
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were
can follow:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/diskful/index.html
or
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/ppc64le/diskless/index.html
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xC
David,
Next thing you can try is to restart xcat with "restartxcatd" and see if
any errors are displayed in /var/log/xcat/cluster.log
There is a scan_plugins() module in /opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd that is suppose to
scan and register Perl modules.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Developme
The latest version of xCAT 2.14.6 should support management of AC922
machines.
The node definition for these nodes should contain "mgt=openbmc" and
"cons=openbmc"
After that normal xCAT commands like "rpower", "rcons", "rflash", etc
should work
ate module to handle the command.
The "mgt=openbmc" suppose to tell xCAT to use
"/opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/openbmc.pm" module.
Can you run "lsdef gpu1413" ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it wa
The definition looks correct.
Which version of xCAT? "lsxcatd -a"
What is the OS of the xCAT management node ?
Is there a file "/opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/openbmc.pm" on the xCAT
management node ?
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xC
Hopefully this explains:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/deployment/additionalpkg/additional_pkg_overview.html#overview
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
"If we knew what it was we were
Have you checked:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/security/certs.html
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: Dav
Please open an issue against xcat-core for this.
I feel bmcdiscover should redact passwords either passed in or pulled from
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,
Have you tried "rmosdistro -f" to force remove ?
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: Andrew Loftus
To: xCAT User
Nathan,
Did you run "mknb ppc64" on management node prior to booting Genesis ?
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
F
In these two examples: "xdsh compute command" and "rpower compute off", the
target nodes for the command will be from nodegroup "compute", not
necessarily just the nodes that have "profile=compute" in their
definitions.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Develop
To backup all the data of the management node, check:
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/guides/install-guides/maintenance/backup_restore_xcat.html
If you just want to save a single node definition, check "-z" option of
"lsdef" and "mkdef" command
Damir,
Have you tried "rvitals" or "renergy" commands ?
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: Damir Krstic
T
xCAT team does not explicitly test with CentOS, since it is very similar to
RHEL.
However, we expect running xCAT management node on CentOS 7 or provisioning
CentOS 7 compute nodes from CentOS 6 management node to work.
Mark Gurevich
Poughkeepsie Development Lab
HPC Software Development - xCAT
xCAT version 2.15.1 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_2.15.1_Release_Notes
Best Regards!
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It was added in xCAT 2.12.1
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: S S R R Perumal
To: xCAT Users Mailing list
Date: 03/23/202
Sathya,
Have you tried running "xcatprobe osdeploy" right after "rinstall" ? (
https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/probe/osdeploy.html)
It should print out steps of the provisioning process and perhaps will
point you to the step that takes longer than it sh
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
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
-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
-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
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
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
#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
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
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
Which version of xCAT are you using ?
What OS are you trying to rinstall ?
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: Javier Ron
To:
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!
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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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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,
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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?"
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
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
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