Re: [xcat-user] genesis bug maybe in 2.7

2012-04-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
;>> + ERROR=`wget $destparameter 2>&1` >>> while [ $? == 1 ] && echo $ERROR|grep -v 416; do >>> sleep 10 >>> - ERROR=`wget -c $TARG 2>&1` >>> + ERROR=`wget -c $destparameter 2>&1` >>> done >>> - tar xvf `basena

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT fails to discover nodes and setup BMC

2012-05-18 Thread Jarrod Johnson
2.7.2 addresses the messy requirement situation, but in the meantime be sure to use xCAT 2.7.1 and use zypper or yum to install xCAT-genesis-x86_64 and elilo-xcat. This is all assuming you have dx 360 M4 systems. I assume that's the case. On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 3:51 AM, Luis Cabellos wrote: >

Re: [xcat-user] post install hang

2012-06-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
That seems to be normal in RHEL 5.8 On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Gilad Berman wrote: > Update - > > Now machine do not hang on post install but i get the following message - > (can't copy-paste so sorry for bad spelling) > > *sending terminataudit: *NO* daemon at audit_pid=2497* > *ion s

Re: [xcat-user] IBM HS23 Blades

2012-06-15 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I can't remember the version, but at one point we made it so you can leave installnic/primarynic blank, and we'd autodetect based on whet PXE booted. With HS23, the on-board 10 Gb ports add some degree of surprise in how they interact with the two on-board gigabit interfaces. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012

Re: [xcat-user] xcat 2.7.3 tftpd error

2012-06-23 Thread Jarrod Johnson
What management node os? On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 3:40 PM, John Simon wrote: > Just tried 2.7.3 and I am getting the following error when I start xcatd > > # /etc/init.d/xcatd start > Starting xCATd > in.tftpd: no process killed > /usr/sbin/in.tftpd: invalid option -- 4 >

Re: [xcat-user] xcat HTTP on nonstandard port

2012-07-13 Thread Jarrod Johnson
FYI, xcat 2.8 development snapshots include 'httpport' as a site value... On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Christian Caruthers < christian.caruth...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I have a 2.7.3 cluster w/ the latest deps and am trying to configure nodes > to netboot using a non-standard HTTP port. Here's

Re: [xcat-user] custom initrd

2012-07-13 Thread Jarrod Johnson
bootparams.addkcmdline=rdblacklist=nouveau No need for custom initrd, that will suppress the driver. On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Yuriy Halytskyy wrote: > Hi, > > We have some nodes with Tesla GPU devices that do not boot with RH 6.1 > (kernel panic on loading nouveau drivers). What is the be

Re: [xcat-user] PXE over 10gbe Emulex

2012-08-03 Thread Jarrod Johnson
What happens when it does attempt to PXE boot over the 10g? nodels mac.mac? On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:55 AM, DeFalco, Darian wrote: > I'm trying to PXE boot an IBM System x3550 M4 Server (7914) via its Emulex > OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3 - rev 02) with no success. > > The 10gb interface is going

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT database caching?

2012-10-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
For the reference of the list, 2.7.5 will contain fix for this. $ git show commit c14747ac04c6829a91fef3e2dea8d3bb2dbcfc00 Author: jbjohnso Date: Fri Oct 12 16:31:55 2012 + Table.pm in a refresh scenario with cache not currently in use, but existing none the less, mark the cache as in

[xcat-user] Fwd:

2013-02-05 Thread Jarrod Johnson
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Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 feature proposals...

2013-02-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Anyone else an expert on the nitty gritty of snmpv3/usm care to comment? I'll probably read more in detail, but I had thought that with authentication that the 'user password' actually served as a shared secret to construct integrity keys. Therefore so long as the client correctly validated the in

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 feature proposals...

2013-02-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Are there things you would like us to do to make that task easier or reduce risk perceived in the way we do things? On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Greg Mason wrote: > To alleviate the security concerns we have with xCAT, we are using puppet > to rip out all the hooks xcat puts into a node it

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 feature proposals...

2013-02-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Or alternatively, a postscript behavior where it's easy to say 'set up puppet and only puppet', since *something* has to bootstrap puppet in the firstplace. The default mode wouldn't be made that way (most people like their psh... I hope), but making it trivial to indicate such a preference doesn'

[xcat-user] storage table

2013-02-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I'm preparing to add a storage table. Extensive use will come later, but for now, I'm planning on one field to kick things off: storage.bootvolume Takes a description of the desired boot volume. A few sample values: usbdisk (install to first usb mass storage device) localdisk (install to first non

Re: [xcat-user] Documentation! (nodeset documentation is wrong)

2013-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
What was attempted that failed? The behavior is that rinstall/winstall are just simple shell scripts. Upon completion of install, the next entry in chain.currchain is used as the argument to 'nodeset' (effectively). For example: nodeset runmcd=bmcsetup nodech chain.currchain=osimage=blah,boot

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 feature proposals...

2013-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
neral type of node > > provisioner so I don't to have to run 2 servers to provision different > > types of nodes. > > > > There's a couple other nice things about cobbler as well. It has good > > support for making profiles and sub-profiles. This is something

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9 feature proposals...

2013-02-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
In terms of the whole aspect of how simply does xCAT scale down, I'm personally interested in any way we can mitigate that. For example, nowadays I advise that 99% of people should never even look at primarynic/installnic anymore. As much as possible we need intelligent defaults that are sufficie

Re: [xcat-user] mktoolscenter question

2013-03-07 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Sorry for delay. It looks very odd. For some reason, you are getting the deprecation message, which should only be raised by the redhat, suse, or debian support. toolscenter.pm has no concept of osimage quite yet and shouldn't raise the error. packimage isn't relevant either. Ofter nodeset ne

Re: [xcat-user] nbk.x86_64 missing? [xCAT 2.8]

2013-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
rpm -qa|grep -i genesis mknb x86_64 Does that straighten things out? On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 1:30 PM, John Browning wrote: > I've just completed a fresh install of xCAT. > > I'm trying to install my first node and am experiencing an issue with PXE: > 1) The machine PXE boots and obtains t

[xcat-user] conserver replacement

2013-06-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I'm contemplating a conserver replacement. There is sufficient functionality I want to add and conserver is a tad inconvenient. conman wasn't appreciably closer than conserer toward the goals I had in mind. So I'm considering making a new one. The differences would be: -IPv6 support -Precise SS

Re: [xcat-user] Console management questions...

2013-09-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Ok, based on this feedback and some off-list feedback, my current intent: -Consoles will be concurrent read and write by default, since most people seem to prefer this -Configuration can request exclusive-write and exclusive-all style access -If exclusive-all, replay buffer is cleared when excl

[xcat-user] Name the console/hardware manager

2014-02-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
So I wanted to nail down a name before getting ready to push the tree public. I was considering the following names: confluent: flowing together or merging conflux: a meeting of multiple bodies of water conflation: the process or result of fusing items into one entity; fusion; amalgamation Any

[xcat-user] console/event log format proposal for 2.9

2014-02-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
So I wanted to share a bit on my current thinking about log/event type data as it will be logged by the console server. In brief, my thought was that plaintext logging didn't do everything I think would be good, but I didn't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater by either not having plaint

[xcat-user] RHEL7 support question

2014-02-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
So if we apply the typical amount of conservative discipline to the package list, at least the following commands will not be installed: ifconfig lspci lsusb ifconfig output has changed significantly to boot if we do install. Should we include these packages or are people comfortable with alterna

Re: [xcat-user] RHEL7 support question

2014-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
gt; > >> On 2/10/14 6:08 PM, "David Johnson" wrote: > >> > >> I'm still struggling to keep up with the changes that rhel6 imposed on > >> us. If xcat can go from MAC address to ipv4 address and make the bits > >> come out of the right wire,

Re: [xcat-user] tftp unreliable?

2014-07-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Is this using xnba or pxe? What sort of messages@ On Jul 16, 2014 10:28 PM, "Garrick Staples" < garrick.stap...@evolvemediallc.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > I've noticed that since updating to xcat-2.7, that reinstalls have > gotten a bit unreliable if a do a few nodes at the same time. I see the > no

Re: [xcat-user] trying to install new 3650m4 eth0 link is not ready

2014-07-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
What happens if you blank installnic? If not set it will autodetect and the result may surprise you. I recommend never setting installnic or primarynic on x86 anymore, since the autodetect works as desired 99.9% of the time. On Jul 17, 2014 10:05 AM, "Damir Krstic" wrote: > we have 4 new login n

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-07-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Hmmm... If you edit IPMI.pm and force ipmi2support to 0 do things change? On Jul 30, 2014 2:43 PM, "Lanae Neild" wrote: > Correction - replaced the correct file this time, > /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/IPMI.pm with the one from 2.7.8 gives this - at > least it is a different error this time! > > [ro

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.4 and HP IPMI

2014-08-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
> HPC, CCIT, Clemson University > (864)505-4293 > lne...@clemson.edu > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Jarrod Johnson < > jarrod.b.john...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hmmm... If you edit IPMI.pm and force ipmi2support to 0 do things change? >> On Jul 30,

Re: [xcat-user] How to setup the IPMI/BMC network in "dedicated" mode?

2014-10-08 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Unfortunately on the shared/dedicated automation, the IPMI standard does not dictate how that gets specified. As such we only understand how to automate switching over IBM/Lenovo equipment so far. If you get documentation you could modify 'bmcsetup' script to understand the dialect of your sys

Re: [xcat-user] Force xCAT to only use TLS

2014-10-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
If the version of openssl is new enough, the site values xcatsslciphers and xcatsslversion can be employed to tune what is and is not acceptable. For xcatsslversion: Sets the version of the SSL protocol used to transmit data. 'SSLv23' uses a handshake compatible with SSL2.0, SSL3.0 and TLS1.x, w

Re: [xcat-user] SC14

2014-11-18 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I know the Lenovo booth is supposed to have some material about confluent and xCAT. I'm not at SC so I'm not sure how things are panning out in practice. Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect  Lenovo   www.lenovo.com  Foru

[xcat-user] xCAT 2.8.5.1/Confluent 1.0 package availability

2014-11-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
ceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/confluent/ It is also available via pypi (note that paths will change to reside under /usr/lib/python location instead of opt if electing to use pypi, and you may receive a less tested combination of the dependencies). Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect L

Re: [xcat-user] Can not get ipmi commands to work on dell poweredge servers.

2014-12-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
t channel authentication capabilities' response? Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect  Lenovo -Original Message- From: Brian Kemish [mailto:b.kem...@uq.edu.au] Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 11:51 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [xcat-user] Can not get

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT with external DHCP and PXE via proxyDHCP

2014-12-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
nt-architecture = 00:07 { supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.efi"; } elsif option client-architecture = 00:00 { supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.kpxe"; } Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect  Lenovo -Original Message- F

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

2014-12-06 Thread Jarrod Johnson
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 wrote: > Hello all, > > I ran into this issue when trying to create a vm I had defined in xCAT in >

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

2014-12-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
license with a thought of purchase if sticking with ESXi. I might otherwise consider a KVM solution. Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo [Description: scsig] www.lenovo.com <http://www.lenovo.com/> Forums<http://forums.lenovo.com/> | Blogs<http://lenovoblogs.c

Re: [xcat-user] RHEL7 and ksdevice

2014-12-31 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I would leave noderes.installnic blank and let BOOTIF be ok. If you really want, have noderes.installnic=eth0 (nodech noderes.installnic=eth0) Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo [Description: scsig] www.lenovo.com <http://www.lenovo.com/> Forums<http://forums.l

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-01-07 Thread Jarrod Johnson
nice if IBM SoftLayer capacity would alleviate it. I have noted that xCAT gets downloaded from softlayers mirror pretty frequently anyway from their use by sourceforge. Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo [Description: scsig] www.lenovo.com <http://www.lenovo.com/>

Re: [xcat-user] Call for requirement for docker support in xCAT

2015-01-07 Thread Jarrod Johnson
roduction setup. Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo www.lenovo.com <http://www.lenovo.com/> Forums<http://forums.lenovo.com/> | Blogs<http://lenovoblogs.com/> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/lenovo> | Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/leno

Re: [xcat-user] Xcat wcons and Alt+D

2015-01-09 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Well, off hand I can't think of something to test alt on currently… If you use 'rcons' (basically use your normal terminal), do you have any better luck? Your firmware may have different terminal modes (VT100, ANSI, etc). Different modes may fare better. Jarrod Johnson Sys

[xcat-user] xCAT development journal/confluent status

2015-01-19 Thread Jarrod Johnson
and-future/ If people want, I'll continue with a discussion of the wider situation around confluent. Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect Lenovo [Description: scsig] www.lenovo.com <http://www.lenovo.com/> Forums<http://forums.lenovo.com/> | Blogs<http://len

Re: [xcat-user] IPMI console problem with -o intelplus

2015-01-20 Thread Jarrod Johnson
if desired, set it to start at boot) makeconfluentcfg (note that confluent must already be running before issuing this command today) Jarrod Johnson Systems Management Architect  Lenovo -Original Message- From: Christopher Samuel [mailto:sam...@unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Monday, January 19

[xcat-user] moderate deep dive on confluent

2015-02-02 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I posted a 15 minute exploration and explanation of confluent. This video doesn't use the xCAT confluent plugin, but describes configuring from scratch. I apologize if it is either too terse or not terse enough, I tried to strike a balance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NEgyH_4gfo

Re: [xcat-user] "LOCALBOOT 0" vs "append hd0"

2015-02-04 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Is there a chance you could uefi boot the system? In short, BIOS is a messy thing. The thing pxelinux.0 tries to do to 'exit' can hang on some bios. So your chain works in your case. However, on other systems, the chain can hang. Either way we try to go, if network goes first there is going

Re: [xcat-user] Moving xCAT from sourceforge to github?

2015-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Of course, one of the *worst* performing sections of sourceforge as of late has been the file release area. While github can’t fit it, I think it would be prudent to seriously consider how to move that somewhere else as well. It’s hard to browse our file releases in the face of repeated server

Re: [xcat-user] rcons taking me to incorrect server

2015-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Hmm… odd… host resolution nice and correct and unambiguous? Are they ‘swapped’ or both clobbering each other? From: Crane, Benjamin [mailto:bcr...@visa.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 2:05 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] rcons taking me to incorrect server Hi all, I’

Re: [xcat-user] rcons taking me to incorrect server

2015-02-11 Thread Jarrod Johnson
reverse shows both names, both IPs correctly. Rcons to host sl**11 takes me correctly to sl**11, however rcons to sl**10 also takes me to 11. From: Jarrod Johnson [mailto:jjohns...@lenovo.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 12:36 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat

Re: [xcat-user] rcons taking me to incorrect server

2015-02-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
amin" ---02/12/2015 05:10:08 AM---Unfortunately it still remains on the 11 node once it r]"Crane, Benjamin" ---02/12/2015 05:10:08 AM---Unfortunately it still remains on the 11 node once it reacquires. From: Jarrod Johnson [mailto:jjohn From: "Crane, Benjamin&

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT encrypt password in passwd table

2015-03-23 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Actually, md5 should work fine. It works for me... Admittedly, we should expand the prefixs that are accepted as 'pre-crypted': ($result =~ /^\$1\$/) || ($result =~ /^\$5\$/) || ($result =~ /^\$6\$/) So $1$, $5$, and $6$ should be fine. If it is something else and doesn't work, let me know. F

Re: [xcat-user] Function keys under rcons and wcons

2015-03-27 Thread Jarrod Johnson
So it depends on your terminal as to whether hitting 'F2' 'just works' For Gnome terminal and Konsole and xterm at least, it just works (F1 is sometimes hijacked for 'help' by the terminal, but that can be configured. Failing that, hit 2 for F2, 3 for F3, and so on ( ! For F11, @ for F12).

Re: [xcat-user] Function keys under rcons and wcons

2015-03-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
7;t need more than one session, so I haven't given this situation a lot of thought. Hope this helps. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Russell Auld [mailto:russa...@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 8:20 AM To: 'xCAT Users Mailing list' Subject: Re

Re: [xcat-user] Why addAttribs not supported anymore?

2015-03-30 Thread Jarrod Johnson
documenting it, so it might work with die commented out. There also might be a reasonable alternative way to perform the function. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: 범희대 [mailto:hee...@solbox.com] Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 10:59 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject

[xcat-user] Confluent 1.1 release

2015-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
y and offline yum repositories per platform. For example http://sourceforge.net/projects/xcat/files/confluent-dep/rh7/x86_64/confluent-dep-rh7-x64.tar.bz2/download would be the dependencies for x86_64 RHEL7 and similar. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo -

Re: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue

2015-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I assume this is a KVM guest... rpm -qa|grep Sys-Virt Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Douglas Myers [mailto:dgmy...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 1:42 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list (xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net) Subject: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower

Re: [xcat-user] 2.9.1 rpower issue

2015-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I'm looking at the 'is_active' calls, and they are all new to 2.8 and up... It's probable that Sys::Virt didn't used to have it and the update to 2.8 has a requirement to go up on Sys::Virt... Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Jarr

Re: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue

2015-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
How about rsetboot? Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Douglas Myers [mailto:dgmy...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 3:18 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue spoke too soon # rinstall z10148 z10148

Re: [xcat-user] rinstall issue - Was 2.9.1 rpower issue

2015-04-01 Thread Jarrod Johnson
distinct steps rather than having rinstall do it for me… but it would be a good idea for rinstall to try and warn on failure rather than flip out… Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Douglas Myers [mailto:dgmy...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 3:57 PM To: xCAT

Re: [xcat-user] Dell c6220 boot stalls

2015-04-03 Thread Jarrod Johnson
on modern systems with SOL those chances are pretty low). Let us know if that is it. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Matt Mulqueen [mailto:mmulqu...@jhu.edu] Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 2:38 PM To: grihpc Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] ERROR: BOOTIF missing, can't detect boot nic.

2015-04-21 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Hmm, odd. Can you go to alt-f2 and cat /proc/cmdline and do ip addr show Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Zentz, Scott C. [mailto:ze...@email.unc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 4:11 PM To: 'xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [xcat-user] ERR

Re: [xcat-user] ERROR: BOOTIF missing, can't detect boot nic.

2015-04-23 Thread Jarrod Johnson
was missing so a symlink was attempted to make it whole. The remedy was to edit the pxelinux.cfg file for the network to reference genesis. Also setting 'noderes.netboot=pxe' to make pxelinux.cfg files to be compatible with the external DHCP setup. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Manag

Re: [xcat-user] Preserving image configurations.

2015-04-27 Thread Jarrod Johnson
This has come up before. I wonder what people on the list think of adding '-leavepassword' argument to packimage... Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect Lenovo From: Ling Gao [mailto:ling...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 3:07 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list S

Re: [xcat-user] xcat genesis kernel and mellanox ethernet cards

2015-05-19 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Interesting, what is the output of lspci and lspci -n? For what it is worth, /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/x86_64/fs/etc/udev/rules.d/98-mlx.rules is the mechanism that is supposed to load the mellanox Ethernet driver since mlx4_core instead of mlx4_en hooks the device. Jarrod Johnson

Re: [xcat-user] xcat genesis kernel and mellanox ethernet cards

2015-05-19 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I am starting to guess that you have a VPI adapter that doesn't set the PCI class to Ethernet.. amending the 98-mlx.rules to remove the criteria for class may do the trick... Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect  Lenovo  -Original Message- From: Jarrod Jo

Re: [xcat-user] xcat genesis kernel and mellanox ethernet cards

2015-05-20 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I class wise). This can be a ethernet adapter, but not always an Ethernet adapter is something that PCI ids/classes don't really describe well. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect  Lenovo  -Original Message- From: Christopher Samuel [mailto:sam...@unimelb.edu.au] Sent: Tues

Re: [xcat-user] xcat genesis kernel and mellanox ethernet cards

2015-05-20 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Just do 'mknb x86_64' after that change, it should help. Jarrod Johnson HPC Systems Management Architect  Lenovo  -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Walker [mailto:c.j.wal...@qmul.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2015 5:24 PM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [xcat-user] rhel7/SL7

2015-05-27 Thread Jarrod Johnson
serialflow can mess up the kernel, but nothing in the code should make it default to on. I don't see anything in the example templates that tries to turn it on either… From: Xiao Peng Wang [mailto:w...@cn.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 5:04 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [x

Re: [xcat-user] ipmi issues on version 2.8.2

2015-05-29 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Hmm… does anything glaring happen if you do 'xcatd -f' and run an ipmi command? From: Jaskaran Singh [mailto:jack.sahi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 12:51 PM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: [xcat-user] ipmi issues on version 2.8.2 all the rcons, rpower and rset commands have broke

Re: [xcat-user] Conserver logging

2015-06-09 Thread Jarrod Johnson
makeconservercf -d noderange is intended to delete nodes from conserver configuration. -Original Message- From: Christopher J. Walker [mailto:c.j.wal...@qmul.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:23 AM To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [xcat-user] Conserver logging We are get

Re: [xcat-user] Chroot issue

2015-06-09 Thread Jarrod Johnson
The short answer is that bash in RHEL/CentOS7.x has a more complex prompt behavior, and the chroot is trying to follow the environment and not getting everything it epected. when working, /etc/profile has: if [ "$PS1" ]; then if [ -z "$PROMPT_COMMAND" ]; then case $TERM in xterm*|vte*)

[xcat-user] Move package repositories?

2015-06-12 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I think overall we have an idea of what a post-sourceforge life will look like already, except for the online package repository. Perhaps we should consider moving our package repositories to ppa/copr/opensuse build service? We'd still download an archive for offline package repositories, but

Re: [xcat-user] Move package repositories?

2015-06-16 Thread Jarrod Johnson
tory Tel: 86-10-82453499 Tie-Line: 9053499 Email: ligua...@cn.ibm.com<mailto:ligua...@cn.ibm.com> Address: Building 28, ZhongGuanCun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Haidian District Beijing 100193, PRC 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼 邮编: 100193 [Inactive hide details for Jarrod

Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba

2015-06-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Interesting, what distro and profile? Do you have a custom profile or custom partitioning? The need for /boot/efi should be autodetected and put into the automatic partition plan by one of the following snippets of code (depending on distro/profile): # grep '/boot/efi' /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ins

Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba

2015-06-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
using xnba On 06/17/2015 09:20 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: Hi Jarrod > Interesting, what distro and profile? Do you have a custom profile or custom > partitioning? > Using RHELS 6.6 - No just a single / partition > The need for /boot/efi should be autodetected and put into t

Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba

2015-06-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
ilto:r...@nd.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:00 AM To: Rich Sudlow; xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba On 06/17/2015 09:35 AM, Rich Sudlow wrote: > On 06/17/2015 09:20 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > > Hi Jarrod >> Interesting, what dis

Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba

2015-06-17 Thread Jarrod Johnson
No problem, just buy some Lenovo E7 boxes next time ;) -Original Message- From: Rich Sudlow [mailto:r...@nd.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2015 10:28 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Installing a machine using xnba On 06/17/2015 10:03 AM, Jarrod Johnson wrote

Re: [xcat-user] user management

2015-06-19 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Incidentally, I was pondering some simplified facilities to help on this offering a few canned strategies: -Replicated local account data: Automated replication when any of the key local files changes. Makes changing account data more expensive, but makes lookup of account data cheaper (e.g.

Re: [xcat-user] rpower softoff causing reboot

2015-06-23 Thread Jarrod Johnson
rpower softoff produces an ACPI power button event (well at least it does on the servers I know). It is then up to however the OS is configured to respond to a power button event.. acpid as a common central point for fielding those events under most linux setups, but it isn't the only setup.

Re: [xcat-user] problem upgrading xCAT from 2.7.3 to 2.9.1

2015-06-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Basically, grub2-xcat rpm was built with digest and compression newer than RH5's ability to understand. The following macros in .rpmmacros would make the rpm backward compatible. [jjohnson2@taurus ~]$ cat .rpmmacros %_binary_filedigest_algorithm 1 %_binary_payload 1 Though the filedigest algorit

Re: [xcat-user] rpower softoff causing reboot

2015-06-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
/etc/acpi/events/power.conf in CentOS6 is generally the portion responsible for responding to softoff in a server scenario (unless logged into a desktop environment..). I'd check for any custom files under /etc/acpi. I might also: ]# fuser /proc/acpi/event /proc/acpi/event: 1451 [root@odin

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT -> racktables

2015-06-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Hmm, it might be interesting to do a more structured integration... but in the short term, if there's some csv import (haven't used racktables myself), you could use xcsv to convert nodels output to csv: # nodels n1-n4 nodepos.rack nodepos.u|xcsv node,nodepos.u,nodepos.rack n4,4,1 n2,2,1 n3,3,1

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT -> racktables

2015-06-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
That formatted strangely. xcsv does not take arguments. The stuff after xcsv was the first line of output, not arguments. -Original Message- From: Jarrod Johnson [mailto:jjohns...@lenovo.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:38 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re: [xcat-user

Re: [xcat-user] NextScale deployment kernel crash

2015-06-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
What nic driver was built in the initrd? m4 was igb, m5 uses tg3. " extra unusable Ethernet ports on the motherboard that mess up the interface naming. Is there a workaround for this???" I'm interested in what this means and if I can help on that. From: David Johnson [mailto:david_john...@brow

Re: [xcat-user] NextScale deployment kernel crash

2015-06-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
f them for FDR IB only, and the other one isn't connected to anything. The other two are BroadCom / Tg3 I wish I could ssh to the machine so I could poke around and see what the NICs are called. Maybe I will have to boot off a USB key. No disks in these hosts. -- ddj On Jun 25, 2015, at

Re: [xcat-user] rpower softoff causing reboot

2015-06-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
First, on an afflicted system, I would see if shutdown -h does the same thing. It should behave identically. Speaking of interesting platform behavior, I'll try to track down the specific situation, but: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rtc-linux/rtc$20adrian/rtc-linux/ADwWuEVjS5s/sPJ

Re: [xcat-user] rpower softoff causing reboot

2015-06-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Nevermind the RTC wake issue, it's a red herring because it only affects Thinkserver line and even then the behavior is currently suppressed by a blacklist and the patch is trying to fix the behavior so RTC wake can be enabled for those platforms again. -Original Message- From: J

Re: [xcat-user] NextScale deployment kernel crash

2015-06-25 Thread Jarrod Johnson
ng: Attempted to kill init! Pid: 1, comm: init Tainted: G --- H 2.6.32-358.23.2.el6.x86_64 #1 Call Trace: [] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f [] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 [] ? fput+0x25/0x30 [] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 [] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 [] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b On

Re: [xcat-user] Static assignment of IPs

2015-07-02 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I agree that the convention of using - is an unfortunate choice and prefer the concept of using a different DNS suffix insstead (it's confusing when 'hostname' set by dhcp from different interfaces would be different, though the hostname for a node should definitely be only one of them). Besid

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.9.1 - !remote! interfaces no longer working for makedhcp -n

2015-07-02 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Sorry about that. I was unable to sort out how to make work what was put into 2.9.1. I have since commited a patch which restores 2.9.0 behavior, *theoretically* working for whatever use case 2.9.1 worked for (but again, I couldn't verify I didn't break that case, because that case never worke

Re: [xcat-user] best way to populate nodepos table

2015-07-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
I don't know exactly what the full scheme is, so I'll give an example where the values can be derived from the name: (assuming nodes are 72 in the bottom 36u and you want u to flow rack to rack): subtract 5001, then divide by 2 since they are two nodes per u, take the remainder when divided by 3

Re: [xcat-user] best way to populate nodepos table

2015-07-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Oh, btw, does nodels vpd.serial give you what you expect? If you want to do it, there's not a particularly well built in, but to make a script that would do it: # rinv n2-n4 serial|grep System | sed -e 's/^/nodech /' -e 's/: System Serial Number: / nodepos.comments=/' nodech n3 nodepos.comment

Re: [xcat-user] ESXi VM Discovery & Deployment

2015-07-10 Thread Jarrod Johnson
FYI, xCAT's vm commands don't require vCenter, though certain functions like rmigrate and friends are restricted by vmware. Unless the free license is installed, after which ESXi locks us out of the API (eval mode does not have this restriction). So if you stateless boot or install with a paid

[xcat-user] Switch confluent over to github primary for source access

2015-07-14 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Does anyone have any objections to switching over at least the confluent repository to github as the primary git origin? I'm also suggesting that the flow for contributors that are not maintainers can either be: -patch submitted to mailing list -pull request on github -Some other publicly access

Re: [xcat-user] Switch confluent over to github primary for source access

2015-07-15 Thread Jarrod Johnson
when there is activity... - Victor From: Jarrod Johnson mailto:jjohns...@lenovo.com>> To:"xCAT Users Mailing list (xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>)" mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Date:07/14/20

Re: [xcat-user] Can you install psh without installing xcat?

2015-07-15 Thread Jarrod Johnson
With some slight modification, it should be possible to provide. It would need something to evaluate the noderange, so noderange would be in principle like 'nodeadd' command. I.e. things that would work: n1,n2,n3 n1-n20 (where n1 through n20 are resolveable hostnames) Things that wouldn't work

[xcat-user] Toward a post-sourceforge future....

2015-07-22 Thread Jarrod Johnson
So this is my take on how things are/should proceed. First, as soon as possible the primary git repositories will shift to github. This has already happened for confluent. I think this is a pretty unambiguous move. It aligns with a good community contribution, and in the (hopefully unlikely)

Re: [xcat-user] Mellanox Ethernet switch: Unable to get MAC entries

2015-07-22 Thread Jarrod Johnson
Are there any other connections (management cable or otherwise)? If by chance the service processor is connected via some other channel, you may be able to use that for discovery instead. Mellanox has declined our request to report mac address forwarding databases on their ethernet products (t

Re: [xcat-user] Mellanox Ethernet switch: Unable to get MAC entries

2015-07-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
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Re: [xcat-user] Toward a post-sourceforge future....

2015-07-24 Thread Jarrod Johnson
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Re: [xcat-user] Mellanox Ethernet switch: Unable to get MAC entries

2015-07-29 Thread Jarrod Johnson
01 PM, Allison Andrews wrote: On 7/26/15 5:02 PM, Christopher Samuel wrote: > On 23/07/15 02:11, Jarrod Johnson wrote: > >> Mellanox has declined our request to report mac address forwarding >> databases on their ethernet products (they did not disagree with the >> feature,

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