Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemdOSes?

2016-08-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
I see. Thank you. -Josh On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > On 05/08/16 02:32, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > > It looks like that uses the nics table which is currently empty in my > > config. The examples on that pag

Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemdOSes?

2016-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
m > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > > > - Original message - > From: Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.ne

Re: [xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemd OSes?

2016-08-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
Thanks! Yes, I knew ifconfig was deprecated, hence why I knew this was a hack and was asking. Is that postscript something you wrote yourself? Thanks, Josh On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:49 PM, Rich Sudlow <r...@nd.edu> wrote: > On 08/03/2016 03:54 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > >> Hel

[xcat-user] Is there an ifcfg-eth postscript that works on systemd OSes?

2016-08-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
cripts/ifcfg-* files from using DHCP to the static addresses defined through xCAT, which works fine on my Centos 6 OSes. This is my xCAT version: lsxcatd -v Version 2.11 (git commit 9ea36ca6163392bf9ab684830217f017193815be, built M

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-06-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
/xcat/cert/ or /etc/ssh/. Might a missing key or cert from either of those directories be responsible for that error? Thanks, Josh On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> wrote: > Xiao, > > Okay, so I followed those four steps with some modificatio

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-06-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
e accordingly. > > > Thanks > Best Regards > -- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-05-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
new MN the same IP and hostname (even as an alias to a different primary hostname) more or less prevent any changes from needing to be made on the SNs at all (no postscripts run nor manual modifications of files)? Thanks, Josh On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:42 AM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalp

Re: [xcat-user] How can I migrate to a new xCAT MN in a hierarchical environment?

2016-05-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
ould be the installation repos > configured on the cluster nodes and SNs. If any point to the MN, they will > need to be changed. > > > > Aside from all of that, it really depends on the particulars your cluster. > > > > Regards, > *Christian Caruthers* > Lenovo xE

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
og/message. > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > > > > [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---03/08/2016 0

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
ll-compute serialflow=hard serialport=0 serialspeed=115200 servicenode=[SN1_DNS_NAME],[SN2_DNS_NAME] status=booting tftpserver=[SN1_DNS_NAME] xcatmaster=[SN1_IP] -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Christopher Samuel <sam...@unimelb.edu.au> wrote: > On 0

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
issue more easily. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> wrote: > Yes. Sorry that I did not mention it before, but they are stateful nodes. > I have never used stateless nodes and have nothing configured for > stateless. I'm just puzzled what cou

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
re and forgotten to run this time? I have no idea. -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Daniel Letai <d...@letai.org.il> wrote: > Can you confirm you are deploying stateful nodes and not stateless ? > > > On 03/09/2016 12:53 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: > > My

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
ed by this attribute they are always setup with passwordless root access to nodes and other SN. -Josh On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> wrote: > Here is what I see in /var/log/messages when remoteshel

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
/resolv.conf and point it to the SNs which run DNS servers does it allow the node to resolve its name. I wish the kickstart would populate the resolv.conf file with its service node IPs by default (and I thought it used to??). On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
maybe in the > /var/log/message. > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us.ibm.com > > > > [image: Inact

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
s id_rsa.pub. > > from source code, updatenode -k is always required password. > > > Thanks, > Casandra > ... > Casandra Hong Qiu > Phone: (845) 433-9291, t/l 293-9291 > Office: B/002, Floor 3, Z13 > cxh...@us.ibm

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
gt; > Thanks > Best Regards > -- > Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) > IBM China System Technology Laboratory > Tel: 86-10-82453455 > Email: w...@cn.ibm.com > Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, > Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 > >

Re: [xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
is specific to updatenode -k, not xdsh -K or the remoteshell postscript (which run that). So I'm not sure if that is relevant to the underlying problem or not, but if I do invoke updatenode -k and supply it the password it copies the id_rsa to the node. On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Josh Nielsen <jn

[xcat-user] Updatenode -k won't create id_rsa key without prompting for password

2016-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
mpute node but omits id_rsa. What could be going wrong here? Regards, Josh Nielsen -- Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to

Re: [xcat-user] Some trouble with postscripts

2016-03-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
Beijing P.R.China 100193 > > > > - Original message - > From: Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: > Subject: [xcat-user] Some trouble with postscripts > Date: Wed, Mar 2, 2016 8:

[xcat-user] Some trouble with postscripts

2016-03-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
are of? P.S. I have verified that DNS has forward and reverse lookups for these nodes on the MN and SNs. Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Moni

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
how far you are getting. I hope that helps in some way. Regards, Josh On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > Well, I may not be of any help at all (and I'm not familiar with Centos 7 > deployment) but since you mention

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
.service entered failed > state. > > Thanks, > -Nathan > > > From: Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> > Date: Monday, November 23, 2015 at 3:43 PM > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, Nathan > Heald <nhe...@iu.edu>

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
$ cat > /install/custom/install/centos7/compute.centos7.pkglist > #Please make sure there is a space between @ and group name > wget > ntp > nfs-utils > net-snmp > rsync > yp-tools > openssh-server > util-linux > net-tools > mailx > vim-enhanced > > >

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
I was going to post a new thread about Centos 7 but thought I might piggy back on this one since it is a similar topic. I have xCAT 2.8.3 currently and it sounds like from the thread here that upgrading to 2.10 is part of the solution for deploying Centos 7.1. Currently the issue I'm having is

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1, problem kickstarting centos7

2015-11-23 Thread Josh Nielsen
And did you ever figure out your problem Nathan? -Josh On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org> wrote: > I was going to post a new thread about Centos 7 but thought I might piggy > back on this one since it is a similar topic. I have xCAT 2.8

Re: [xcat-user] Hello Newbie who need some help. - Benjamin.

2015-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
maybe that helps. That's all I've got. :-) Best regards, Josh Nielsen On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Benjamin LIPERE benjamin.lipere...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. I am a newbie with XCAT. I am a little lost on the installation. Can some one help me to start on XCAT with a VirtualBox Cluster

[xcat-user] Autodiscovery for HP Cluster - SNMP iLo Question

2015-08-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
to make autodiscovery work or can I leave iLo alone and just enable SNMP and configure the switch table? Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery Deployment

2015-07-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2015/07/07 08:28:49---Also, what will the 'switch' xCAT table look like with multiple]Josh Nielsen ---2015/07/07 08:28:49---Also, what

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery Deployment

2015-07-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones as well. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hello all, I ran

[xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery Deployment

2015-07-06 Thread Josh Nielsen
for ways to accomplish that. I would welcome any suggestions or pointers for things that I haven't thought of yet. Thanks! Josh Nielsen -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery Deployment

2015-07-06 Thread Josh Nielsen
Also, what will the 'switch' xCAT table look like with multiple VMs on the same physical host, since the man page for it says contains what switch port numbers each node is connected to? On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hello all, Our organization

[xcat-user] Service Node trying to update Master DNS

2015-03-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
. Perhaps that is why the makedns -e doesn't seem to help, because it picks a different IP then tries to add it. Either way the SNs don't have permission to update DNS. Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- Dive into the World of Parallel

Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
. Michael From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Monday, December 8, 2014 at 10:29 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5? Hello Jarrod

Re: [xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
with the free ESX license? Thanks, Josh Nielsen On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Jarrod Johnson jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com wrote: It will work, but the free license doesn't let us automate it. It requires eval or commercial license sadly. This is the case for older ones as well. On Thu, Dec 4, 2014

[xcat-user] Will xCAT work with ESXi 5.5?

2014-12-04 Thread Josh Nielsen
I need to configure some kind of key or license file locally? I already ran my variation on: chtab key=vmware passwd.username=root passwd.password=cluster for the xCAT passwd table. Regards, Josh Nielsen -- Download BIRT

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
, Josh Nielsen On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Russell Jones russell-l...@jonesmail.me wrote: This is a good start. It's a little bit old and does some things in a different way than I would, but the overall information in it is great: http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide On 10/16

Re: [xcat-user] Good xCAT Book

2014-10-20 Thread Josh Nielsen
Actually, it occurs to me to ask: Can Jordi's presentation be uploaded to the sourceforge wiki so that it can benefit more people? -Josh On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hi John, I had a similar experience to you in the matter

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-03 Thread Josh Nielsen
? Regards, Josh On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Okay, so I moved to an RPM based install of BIND instead of from source and the problem did not go away. My setup is that I am using a development machine which I exported the current xCAT settings

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
be causing this problem. I'm not sure how to address this without a full reinstall from scratch for xCAT if a backup/restore between versions is not possible/compatible. I'm exploring alternatives though. Regards, Josh On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: So I'm

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-10-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
/nsupdate) or a receiving problem (external BIND server). -Josh On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Xiao, For some additional details I am running BIND 9.10.0-P2 which I compiled from source. I used --enable-largefile which specfies 64-bit file support

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-30 Thread Josh Nielsen
Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 Josh Nielsen ---2014/09/30 06:49:50---Okay, I have the external DNS server working: partly. For some very odd reason the external DNS serv From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-30 Thread Josh Nielsen
100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/09/30 06:49:50---Okay, I have the external DNS server working: partly. For some]Josh Nielsen ---2014/09/30 06:49:50---Okay, I have the external DNS server working: partly. For some very odd reason the external DNS serv From: Josh

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/09/25 21:58:19---Hi Xiao, Thanks for the response. So if I have this straight, I]Josh Nielsen ---2014

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-25 Thread Josh Nielsen
朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/09/25 05:46:04---I'm starting to see

[xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
Hello all, I am in the process of trying to move to an external DNS implementation for name resolution with our compute cluster. The only requirement I see in the man page for makedns is to have one (and only one?) IP of the external DNS server that you want to update in /etc/resolv.conf and also

Re: [xcat-user] Questions on prerequisites for external DNS and makedns -e

2014-09-24 Thread Josh Nielsen
the external DNS solution is supposed to work in connection with xCAT. Any clarifications are welcome. -Josh On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org wrote: Hello all, I am in the process of trying to move to an external DNS implementation for name resolution

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-04-02 Thread Josh Nielsen
[image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/04/01 00:00:13---By default, makedns sets up the named service and updates the]Josh Nielsen ---2014/04/01 00:00:13---By default, makedns sets up the named service and updates the DNS records on the local system (man From: Josh Nielsen

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-04-01 Thread Josh Nielsen
at 10:17 PM, Christopher Samuel sam...@unimelb.edu.auwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/03/14 06:11, Josh Nielsen wrote: What does it mean that you must manually configure the hostnames and IP addresses? Does 'makedns -e' not do that for you, just like it would if DNS

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-03-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Christopher Samuel sam...@unimelb.edu.auwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/01/14 04:00, Josh Nielsen wrote: If it just something with our installation or does makedns do this foe other people as well? FWIW we do not run DNS

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-03-26 Thread Josh Nielsen
else that I have missed that will be necessary to do to make external DNS work with xCAT? Thanks, Josh On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgwrote: Sorry to revive this, but I have a question about external DNS since I am thinking of trying it now

[xcat-user] How can I prevent overwritting of resolv.conf and named.conf?

2014-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
I have noticed that with my recent restructuring of my cluster's DNS hierarchy by creating two Service Nodes to stand in between the compute nodes and the Management Node that I am having two separate problems with files being overwritten once I modify them. Firstly, I configured the SNs to act

Re: [xcat-user] How can I prevent overwritting of resolv.conf and named.conf?

2014-03-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX script. On 03/07/2014 12:48 PM, Dennis Zheleznyak wrote: You can lock the file by entering the following command chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf. This will lock the file even for root. Dennis. On Friday, March 7, 2014, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-02-05 Thread Josh Nielsen
table. What am I doing wrong here? Thanks, Josh On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgwrote: Thank you Lissa, that is helpful. -Josh On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Lissa Valletta lis...@us.ibm.com wrote: DNS and DHCP will still work from the Service

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
.el6_2.5.ppc64 openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6_2.2.ppc perl-IO-Socket-SSL-1.31-2.el6.noarch perl-Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-16.el6.ppc64 Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/27/2014 10:36:13 AM---Yes, I read

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT start_SSL Bug?

2014-01-27 Thread Josh Nielsen
at 11:07 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgwrote: Actually there is a disparity between the MN and SN OS type/version. First of all the MN is RedHat, and my service nodes will be Centos. That's shouldn't be a large problem. However the real difference is that the MN is running Red Hat

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
name. This is why we are warning. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 Josh Nielsen ---01/21/2014 05:55:28 PM---On a hunch I tried using the install keyword with nodeset in additon to osimage, and it actually set From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org

Re: [xcat-user] Frustrating time with sequential node discovery

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
Whoops, I meant to write Jarrod not Jarros. I went a little Koine Greek on your name there. Sorry about that. :-) On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgwrote: Jarros, I know you haven't been following the whole thread but Jonathan's problem (which

[xcat-user] Sequential discovery does not support virtual machines message

2014-01-22 Thread Josh Nielsen
Sorry list denizens, another issue I ran into. I am trying to rediscover a VM that I already once discovered with sequential discovery, but now it is acting up. From my /var/log/messages log when I PXE-boot the VM: Jan 22 16:28:36 x3650-head01 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:50:56:bc:0c:db via eth0

Re: [xcat-user] Frustrating time with sequential node discovery

2014-01-21 Thread Josh Nielsen
, Josh Nielsen wrote: Hi Jonathan, Yes, I definitely think that would cause a problem. This is jogging my memory because I think that when the new Genesis boot loader was rolled out in the first version of xCAT that supported it that I faced a similar problem. I had assumed that only Genesis

[xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
A node I am deploying seems to be grabbing the wrong otherpkgs.pkglist file. I have placed pkglist files in /install/custom/install/centos and created one the service group/profile. In that directory are these files: compute.otherpkgs.pkglist compute.pkglist compute.tmpl hinode01.tmpl

Re: [xcat-user] Determine which otherpkgs.pkglist file is being used

2014-01-17 Thread Josh Nielsen
, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.orgwrote: A node I am deploying seems to be grabbing the wrong otherpkgs.pkglist file. I have placed pkglist files in /install/custom/install/centos and created one the service group/profile. In that directory are these files

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
Nielsen ---01/14/2014 03:37:53 PM---Suddenly the lsxcatd command is returning 2.8.3 to me now. I]Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 03:37:53 PM---Suddenly the lsxcatd command is returning 2.8.3 to me now. I'm not sure why it would take time to up From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.org To: xCAT Users

[xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
Regardless of the version of xCAT we have used in the past, my coworkers and I have noticed that running makedns with any following options can be dangerous for us, because something happens where it will wipe out all the records in DNS. If we run makedns with no options generally any new nodes

Re: [xcat-user] Makedns wiping out DNS records

2014-01-16 Thread Josh Nielsen
things do not work well in XCATBYPASS mode. https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Cluster_Name_Resolution Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/16/2014 12:03:28 PM---Regardless

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
, Russell Jones russell-l...@jonesmail.mewrote: Did you remember to stop the xcatd service before doing the upgrade? On 1/14/2014 12:02 PM, Josh Nielsen wrote: I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCAT lately. I was upgrading from xCAT 2.7.3 to 2.8.3, I grabbed

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
details for Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:08 PM---I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCA]Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:08 PM---I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCAT lately. I was upgrading from xCAT 2.7. From: Josh Nielsen jniel

Re: [xcat-user] Update schema after upgrade prematurely terminated

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
to do... XCATBYPASS=1 nodels --version nodels --version ps axf|grep -i xcatd [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:02 PM---I seem to be getting myself in all kinds of trouble with xCA]Josh Nielsen ---01/14/2014 01:05:02 PM---I seem to be getting myself in all

Re: [xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare

2014-01-14 Thread Josh Nielsen
Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/01/14 07:39:35---Thank you, that information is very useful. I just realized tha]Josh Nielsen ---2014/01/14 07:39:35---Thank you, that information

Re: [xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare

2014-01-13 Thread Josh Nielsen
-- Wang Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
Xiaopeng (王晓朋) IBM China System Technology Laboratory Tel: 86-10-82453455 Email: w...@cn.ibm.com Address: 28,ZhongGuanCun Software Park,No.8 Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing P.R.China 100193 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---2014/01/09 03:48:01---Hi Russell

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
xcat commands. Even to recognize that the node is in the xcat cluster. Lissa K. Valletta 8-3/B10 Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 (tie 293) 433-3102 [image: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/10/2014 12:59:12 PM---Hi Wang Xiaopeng (I apologize if I got your name wrong befor]Josh Nielsen

[xcat-user] Node discovery for VMs in VMWare

2014-01-10 Thread Josh Nielsen
that I can discover the node? Would manually inserting the node's MAC address into the xCAT 'mac' table work, or is more than that required for (auto)discovery? Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-09 Thread Josh Nielsen
: Inactive hide details for Josh Nielsen ---01/09/2014 03:13:09 PM---Thank you Xiao Peng Wang, that information is useful. I am t]Josh Nielsen ---01/09/2014 03:13:09 PM---Thank you Xiao Peng Wang, that information is useful. I am thinking that, in that case, Service Node From: Josh Nielsen jniel

[xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
, updatenode, psh, etc) while the MN is down. Is that possible? Any clarifications would be appreciated. Thank you, Josh Nielsen -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have

Re: [xcat-user] How to create and deploy an xCAT Service Node

2014-01-08 Thread Josh Nielsen
for you (it was for me when first learning how to set this up): http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Setting_Up_a_Linux_Hierarchical_Cluster On 1/8/2014 11:52 AM, Josh Nielsen wrote: Hello all, I am trying to move my xCAT installation toward a hierarchical structure

Re: [xcat-user] dhcp timeout in xnba

2013-10-29 Thread Josh Nielsen
(rogue or otherwise)? I had problems one time when I had two xCat servers/headnodes from two different clusters cross talking and issuing IPs to newly provisioned nodes in the other's cluster. Just a few ideas. You never know. Josh Nielsen On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Roland Santos roland.san

Re: [xcat-user] Getdestiny failing - can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver'

2012-08-07 Thread Josh Nielsen
needed with genesis? For my own edification does genesis run *on top* of xnba or does it boot an entirely new image once xnba fetches the genesis kernel images? Thanks, Josh On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.comwrote: Hi Jarrod, Okay, I upgraded to xCAT 2.7.3

[xcat-user] Getdestiny failing - can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver'

2012-07-25 Thread Josh Nielsen
and the port definitions are correct in the switch table for autodiscovery. Any ideas? Thanks, Josh Nielsen -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat

Re: [xcat-user] Getdestiny failing - can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver'

2012-07-25 Thread Josh Nielsen
that replace the environment with something newer that has the appropriate nic drivers... -Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.com jniel...@hudsonalpha.comwrote: - To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net From: Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.com jniel...@hudsonalpha.com Date: 07/25/2012

Re: [xcat-user] Getdestiny failing - can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver'

2012-07-25 Thread Josh Nielsen
executable that does everything in UEFI that is moderately future proof. In a practical world we work with the much richer linux toolset for lack of time to develop EFI resources. -Josh Nielsen jniel...@hudsonalpha.com jniel...@hudsonalpha.comwrote: - To: xCAT Users Mailing list xcat