[xcat-user] xCAT as simple PXE Server for Unattended installations

Hello, I would like to use xCAT as a simple baremetal provisioner. As far as I understood from the documentation the deployed machines must talk with the xCAT server after the installation, (correct-me if I’m wrong please) so if the xCAT server goes away what happens next? There’s a way to

Re: [xcat-user] Local scratch for stateless compute nodes

and statelite osimages(localdisk enabled)“ > > > > A very quick trial on my statless nodes results in nothing J, it seems there > is simply no reference to localdisk with stateless. > > > > So, can someone please help clarify it? > > > > ** as always,

Re: [xcat-user] Local scratch for stateless compute nodes

-2Dguides_manage-5Fclusters_ppc64le_diskless_customize-5Fimage_localdisk.html=DwMGaQ=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg=uiTcPxjMR44SPRNNb6l_nA=ViJ7B2a6TXCErHqzBDQi34NpuIAwf6uQyk6FhdDE4ec=1NipLGoEswxL2k-sbxORfbeKgIBXcG3uOs0v50jRt2k=> > > > The main diskless installation doc link is here:

Re: [xcat-user] Local scratch for stateless compute nodes

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Re: [xcat-user] SELinux - why not?

AFAIK, it cannot generate BIND files correctly: [root@cluster ~]# makedns -n Warning: SELINUX is not disabled. The makedns command will not be able to generate a complete DNS setup. Disable SELINUX and run the command again. Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Nov 2017, at 15:31, Kevin Keane

[xcat-user] Local scratch for stateless compute nodes

Hello, I would like to enable swap and local /tmp on my stateless nodes, but after following the documentation on the following link nothing appears to work: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/hierarchy/provision/diskless_sn.html

[xcat-user] xCAT on SGI ICE X

Hello, I would like to know if someone is running xCAT on SGI ICE X. Since the SGI ICE X needs the CMC drivers I’m unsure if xCAT can be used to control the machines instead of the proprietary software from the faded SGI. Thanks,

[xcat-user] Proper way to upgrade images

Hello, I would like to put on debate which is the proper way to upgrade images to different OS releases. For example, I have this images on my system: centos7.4-x86_64-install-compute (osimage) centos7.4-x86_64-netboot-compute (osimage) centos7.4-x86_64-statelite-compute (osimage) Those

Re: [xcat-user] Using online repos with xCAT

Kevin, you might want to check upstream_sync.py, for mirroring RHN: https://github.com/pyther/upstream_sync Let me hijack this thread, which procedure will be the correct one to ditch copycds? Who will create the images on the definition tables?

Re: [xcat-user] Using chrony instead of ntp?

Thank you Gong. I will report back if anything went offtrack. > On 29 Nov 2018, at 04:10, GONG Jie wrote: > > Hello Vinícius Ferrão, > > Please make sure chronyd is installed on the node you intend to use it. And > redo the xCAT ntp setup procedure on that node. > >

[xcat-user] Dell Networking OS9 and OS6 Switches on xCAT

Hello, I would like know if someone deployed xCAT with switches from this series, it’s basically the Dell N and Dell S lines. Accordingly to the documentation (https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/advanced/networks/ethernet_switches/ethernet_switches.html#switch-management), xCAT only

Re: [xcat-user] Dell Networking OS9 and OS6 Switches on xCAT

switch=1g05 switchport='|\D+(\d+)|($1-60)|' > # create the node definitions > mkdef -t node comp[061-080] groups=compute,1g05-d03-41,all,ipmi > makehosts > makedns > makegocons > > Then you can turn on the nodes they should be discovered and setup. > > Cheers, >

[xcat-user] Sequential-based discovery when BMC is on management network

Hello, We have some machines with shared BMC on the first network interface. On other cluster management softwares - Rocks for instance - things get really messy when BMC is discovered as a compute node during the process. So, how xCAT handles this scenarios? It properly discovers the BMC as a

Re: [xcat-user] Using chrony instead of ntp?

Hello Casandra, Thanks for sharing the correct info. In a case of an already deployed xCAT on RHEL7, is it possible to change it back to chronyd instead of ntpd? Which steps are needed? Thanks, Sent from my iPhone > On 28 Nov 2018, at 19:24, Casandra H Qiu wrote: > > If xCAT found there is

Re: [xcat-user] Removing BIND from xCAT

to the > FreeIPA DNS instances instead of the one on the xCAT master. > > I hope that helps and I’d appreciate hearing about anything you learn along > the way! > > Jon > > -- > Dr. Jonathan Diprose mailto:j...@well.ox.ac.uk>> > Tel: 01865

[xcat-user] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

Hello, When installing xCAT in EL7 with yum install xCAT it’s just put SELinux in permissive mode and disables firewalld. It does not even ask about it. It just does. [root@headnode ~]# getenforce Permissive [root@headnode ~]# systemctl status firewalld ● firewalld.service - firewalld -

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

t;: type -P SuSEfirewall2 >/dev/null 2>&1 Running command on headnode.cluster.iq.ufrj.br<http://headnode.cluster.iq.ufrj.br>: systemctl disable firewalld 2>&1 xCAT is now running, it is recommended to tabedit networks and set a dynamic ip address range on any networks where nodes

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

ger loop mount isos (one of the biggest selinux problems) and avoid rewriting other service etc files in daemon context. More straightforward network usage and a documented set of firewalld commands. From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourcefo

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

and a documented set of firewalld commands. From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 2:27:10 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Cc: Vinícius Ferrão Subject: [External] [xcat-user] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld Hello, When

Re: [xcat-user] Removing BIND from xCAT

! > > Jon > > -- > Dr. Jonathan Diprose mailto:j...@well.ox.ac.uk>> > Tel: 01865 287837 > Research Computing Manager > Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, > Oxford OX3 7BN > > From: Vinícius Ferrão via x

[xcat-user] Timezone settings: how it works?

Hello, I’m with an issue with timezone settings of xCAT. I do have the configuration in place on xCAT: [root@headnode etc]# lsdef -t site clustersite | grep timezone timezone=America/Sao_Paulo But when I run packimage it gets a timezone file from a place that I don’t know which is. Here’s

Re: [xcat-user] What is the purpose of moncfg, monadd, monstart commands?

Hello Casandra, There’s a list of supported features of xCAT 2.15? Because we hit this issue and we were scratching our heads for days. As far as I know there’s a lot of legacy code on the GitHub, and even some left overs on xcat-docs.readthedocs.io; the xcat

[xcat-user] Support for ARM booting

Hello, I’m adding some ARM compute nodes on an xCAT and I got the bad news: xCAT does not support aarch64. Looking around there’s some information about prototypes: https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/mailman/message/35161961/ Theres an ticket about this too here:

Re: [xcat-user] What is the difference of pkglist and otherpkglist

Hello Arif, interesting way to do this things. I use a completely unapproved method of chrooting and yum installroot, which I know is broken. But I had a different understanding of pkglist and otherpkglist. I was understanding that otherpkgs is for things that are standalone. For instance some

Re: [xcat-user] Removing BIND from xCAT

prose mailto:j...@well.ox.ac.uk>> Tel: 01865 287837 Research Computing Manager Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user [mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: 22 September 2019 19:23 To: xCA

Re: [xcat-user] Removing BIND from xCAT

, but I think that is now down to >> inconsistencies and oddities in my xCAT config and /etc/hosts file, >> complicated by my particular setup not being authoritative for some domains >> I use. >> >> I also ship fully-populated /etc/hosts files to al

Re: [xcat-user] Removing BIND from xCAT

On 24 Sep 2019, at 14:03, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Jon, I’ve figured, at least for my case, all the issues: Issue 1: was solved removing the public IP address and hostname from the /etc/hosts file. So when makedns is does not complains a

Re: [xcat-user] Stateless nodes hostkeys

Thomas take a look at Jarrod’s message. It’s from two days ago. All those questions are there. And yes, Ross was talking about host keys. This is an issue with modern authentication. Everything is explained there. Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Oct 2019, at 12:38, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: > >

Re: [xcat-user] Stateless nodes hostkeys

Sent from my iPhone > On 11 Oct 2019, at 13:10, Thomas HUMMEL wrote: > > On 10/11/19 6:02 PM, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: >> Thomas take a look at Jarrod’s message. It’s from two days ago. > > Hello, > > I did. Thanks >> All those questions are th

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

s (one of the biggest selinux problems) and avoid rewriting other service etc files in daemon context. More straightforward network usage and a documented set of firewalld commands. From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Se

Re: [xcat-user] [External] xCAT forcibly disabling SELinux and firewalld

n the lenovo branches. I could open a pull request but I can't guarantee that it would be accepted. ____ From: Vinícius Ferrão mailto:fer...@versatushpc.com.br>> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2019 11:13 PM To: Jarrod Johnson Cc: xCAT Users Mailing list Subject: Re

Re: [xcat-user] xdcp -F / updatenode -F "Noderange missing"

Thomas, Do you have all the entries in /etc/hosts and on the DNS? They are redundant, I know, but sometimes xCAT picks values from /etc/hosts and sometimes from DNS. This is really a problem, but you get used to it. If you’re unable to create the entries with makehosts, since you said that

Re: [xcat-user] Timezone settings: how it works?

/rootimg/usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Sao_Paulo "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" ---12/13/2019 02:31:42 PM---Hello, I’m with an issue with timezone settings of xCAT. From: "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" To: "xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net" Cc: "Vinícius Ferrão&

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

Hello, Thomas. I’m not from the xCAT development team but I’m curious with your question. In your example you mean that the name server info on the SOA field is not available on the NS fields of a given zone, right? If this is correct I think xCAT is doing right to notify only the name servers

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Support for ARM booting

nstall to disk at least, just that it used more tftp than I would like. It would be possible to use iPXE as that builds aarch64 and have xnba.pm support that as well, but I am at a loss for applicable aarch64 systems for me to test/develop on. From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xca

Re: [xcat-user] Delete old osimages

Hi Cassandra, issuing rmdef will remove all the definitions about the image on xCAT, right? But the files will stay on the disk, and they must be manually removed. Is there’s anything more than /install/*images* to be deleted? Or this is sufficient? Thanks, On 14 Feb 2020, at 16:35,

Re: [xcat-user] osimage profile attribute

"compute", not necessarily just the nodes that have "profile=compute" in their definitions. 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

Re: [xcat-user] host based authentication

I have it working in place. The process is a little bit cumbersome but it’s woking. I’m using FreeIPA too so the hostkeys are stored on LDAP, it's integrated. The only issue that I’ve is that I needed to disable the remoteshell script from xCAT and use another one that we have created and

Re: [xcat-user] osimage profile attribute

You can use it as a keyword for other commands, for instance: xdsh compute command rpower compute off On 16 Jan 2020, at 14:37, Bruce Carpenter mailto:bcarpen...@uga.edu>> wrote: What does the “profile” attribute in osimage (osimage.profile) affect? The description just states: “The node

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.15.1 released

Hi Mark, thanks for the release. May I ask a question? Regarding this: • Limited support for statelite This happened due to deprecation of stateless machines with root over NFS from Red Hat? Which seems to be the case of xCAT statelite method. How xCAT handles the stateless method? Can’t

[xcat-user] Issues with net-snmp on new CentOS 8 system and xCAT 2.16 install

Hello, I don’t know I’m probably missing something, or if things got broken with xCAT 2.16; after installing CentOS 8.2, the dnf install xCAT command fails: [root@cluster ~]# dnf install xCAT CentOS-8 - AppStream 2.0 MB/s | 5.8

Re: [xcat-user] Issues with net-snmp on new CentOS 8 system and xCAT 2.16 install

ng net-snmp-perl from > centos8-stream/Appstream): > https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/issues/6715#issuecomment-660460514 > > Jean-Baptiste > > On 9/6/20 1:50 AM, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: >> Hello, >> I don’t know I’m probably missing something, or if thi

Re: [xcat-user] confluent 3.0.1 release

Hi Jarrod, Indeed Confluent have a lot of cool features, and still using xCAT as basis. Mainly the SSH infrastructure and security features are the best additions IMO. A lot of folks, including myself, are adapting xCAT to be more secure (SELinux/Firewall) and more compliant, changing or

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: Issues with net-snmp on new CentOS 8 system and xCAT 2.16 install

me I've installed it, which is not a good situation. I'll try to go back to this problem in the next days. Jean-Baptiste On 9/8/20 1:31 AM, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: > Thanks Jean, this appears to be a 4 months old bug. Woot. > > I did what you’ve said but ended up other missing packag

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT On DELL Power Edge C6420 servers - any current users

You should guarantee that IPMI over LAN interfaces are enabled on IDRAC. It came disabled by default. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Oct 2020, at 11:53, Chiu, Peter (STFC,RAL,RALSP) wrote:  Dear All, We are thinking of adding a DELL Power Edge C6400 server (a 6400 chassis with 4 x C6420

Re: [xcat-user] xCAT On DELL Power Edge C6420 servers - any current users

e done by DELL during manufacturing, or something that can be enabled after delivery? Regards, Peter From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Sent: 26 October 2020 15:41 To: xCAT Users Mailing list mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: Vinícius

Re: [xcat-user] UEFI boot configuration for xCat?

xCAT already supports UEFI out of the box when netboot=xnba is used. If you are with issues during boot you should manually try the drop in replacement files mentioned in this bug: https://github.com/xcat2/xNBA/issues/2 After the changes if it works please report back in the bug so the updated

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

-2021 16:29:52 updatestatus=failed updatestatustime=06-15-2021 16:27:27 Thanks, Vinícius. On 14 Jun 2021, at 13:48, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hi Thomas, There's a pattern that I've found. When the compute node is simple enough it

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

//www.charite.de<https://www.charite.de/> On Mon, 2021-06-14 at 05:41 +, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: Hello, For unknown reasons nodes that I've installed with rinstall (using stateful method) didn't get the nameserver section in resolv.conf, basically leaving the node without any na

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

uot;. [I]: ip link add link bond0 name bond0.123 type vlan id 123 RTNETLINK answers: Numerical result out of range [I]: ip link set bond0.123 up [I]: State of "bond0.123" was "UNKNOWN" instead of expected "UP". Wait 0 of 200 with interval 1. [I]: create_persistent_ifcfg i

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

with confignetwork script, but not sure what. Thanks, On 14 Jun 2021, at 07:57, Thomas HUMMEL mailto:thomas.hum...@pasteur.fr>> wrote: On 14/06/2021 07:41, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: Hello, For unknown reasons nodes that I've installed with rinstall (using stateful method) didn

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

; Tel: 01865 287873 Research Computing Manager Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN ____ From: Vinícius Ferrão [fer...@versatushpc.com.br<mailto:fer...@versatushpc.com.br>] Sent: 17 June 2021 07:13

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

Hello, For unknown reasons nodes that I've installed with rinstall (using stateful method) didn't get the nameserver section in resolv.conf, basically leaving the node without any name resolution. As specified on the documentation

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

iprose mailto:j...@well.ox.ac.uk>> Tel: 01865 287873 Research Computing Manager Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford OX3 7BN ____ From: Vinícius Ferrão [fer...@versatushpc.com.br<mailto:fer...@versatushpc.co

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

it is the route that usually bites me there. Could you share `ip -o a` and the ifcfg files? Jon -- Dr. Jonathan Diprose mailto:j...@well.ox.ac.uk>> Tel: 01865 287873 Research Computing Manager Henry Wellcome Building for Genomic Medicine Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford

[xcat-user] From where next-server is fetched from?

Hello, I'm running xCAT development build and makedhcp is falling to proper populate next-server on /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases: As an example: host adano43 { dynamic; hardware ethernet 00:11:22:33:44:55; uid 00:11:22:33:44:55; fixed-address 172.26.0.43; supersede

Re: [xcat-user] Stateful provisioning customization

;fix" the issue. Definitely no "The Right Way (tm)" to do it. Thanks again, Vinícius. > On 6 Jun 2021, at 00:52, Vinícius Ferrão wrote: > > Thanks Mark and Brian. > > I'm trying to find my way around, right now I've modified the following: > > ===> observe:

Re: [xcat-user] Stateful provisioning customization

t before the > reboot (like say mellanox drivers, that may require a reboot) > > 4. I don't think so, but again if you need other packages just create a > script with a yum command and attach it to the group/node def postbootscript > or posctript line (making sure your order is w

[xcat-user] Stateful provisioning customization

Hello, I'm doing an stateful install right now, and I have some questions to those who use the stateful method. Since I'm already used to stateless provisioning I'm trying to adapt it's concepts to stateful. So here we go: 1. Can I use syncfiles to issue "updatenode all -F" when needed?

Re: [xcat-user] From where next-server is fetched from?

e subnet level in dhcpd.conf. > > Some examples here: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/PXE_boot#HOWTO > > Cheers, > -- > Kilian > > On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 4:51 PM Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user > wrote: >> >> Hello, I'm running xCAT development build and makedhc

Re: [xcat-user] Problem deploying Dell C6420 from Ubuntu 18.04.05

Are you using UEFI or Legacy BIOS? netboot=pxe or netboot=xnba? Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Mar 2021, at 20:42, Calvin Dodge wrote: > > We are trying to deploy C6420 nodes with a diskfull image. The > deployment hangs about about 9.5 seconds after the kernel recognizes > the network and

Re: [xcat-user] Running Copycds on Oracle Linux ISO fails

Daniel, I've made a PR to xcat-core so xCAT can properly support Oracle Linux: https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-core/pull/6919 You can check it out. With the demise of CentOS many users don't want CentOS anymore and cannot afford RHEL. So as today, March 2021, the only viable option is Oracle

[xcat-user] Docs on how to build xCAT

Hello, I’m trying to build xCAT by myself following the instructions on: https://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developers/guides/code/builds.html But they are so simple that I figured it out before reading it, just run ./buildcore.sh The problem is: that’s not working. Error: build of

Re: [xcat-user] Docs on how to build xCAT

tools and “Development Tools” package. Regards, On 3 Mar 2021, at 01:09, Vinícius Ferrão mailto:fer...@versatushpc.com.br>> wrote: Hi Mark, thanks for the RPMSIGN=0 tip. It helped but definitely something is still missing, probably dependencies to do a proper compilation. Here’s some issu

Re: [xcat-user] Docs on how to build xCAT

t; and point to that location in the script. Mark Gurevich Poughkeepsie Development Lab HPC Software Development - xCAT "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" ---03/02/2021 10:38:40 AM---

[xcat-user] Service Nodes requirements and ratios

Hello, I'm sorry to ask this repeated question in the mailing list, but I wasn't able to find a proper answer with the DuckDuckGo-fu and looking in the mail list archive. What is the recommended ratio of compute nodes per service nodes and when I should start considering it instead of leaving

Re: [xcat-user] vmware server as XCAT management node?

Yes it is totally possible and if done right there's actually no drawbacks. For computing nodes the scenario is different. On 6 Aug 2021, at 07:11, Molina, Luis mailto:luis.molina.p...@dxc.com>> wrote: Hello all, My question is regarding virtual nodes. I have read here

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

should work as-is on x86_64, but I have not tried to verify it. Happy New Year! "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" ---01/04/2022 03:59:24 AM---Hello, I'm trying to use the OFED install script from xCAT but some template files seems to be missi From: "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-us

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

Hello, I'm trying to use the OFED install script from xCAT but some template files seems to be missing, the first one is the one in the title: /opt/xcat/share/xcat/ib/netboot/rh/ib.rhels8.x86_64.pkglist Does anyone have a list of the packages required? EL8 and x86_64? Thanks all and happy

[xcat-user] genimage on old CentOS 7.4

Hello, I'm trying to update an old CentOS 7.4 cluster but genimage is failing during dracut phase: # chroot /install/netboot/centos7.4/x86_64/compute/rootimg dracut -f /tmp/initrd.2501.gz 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 No '/dev/log' or 'logger' included for syslog logging Turning off host-only

Re: [xcat-user] genimage on old CentOS 7.4

?" --Albert Einstein "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" ---10/28/2021 04:58:15 AM---Hello, I'm trying to update an old CentOS 7.4 cluster but genimage is failing during dracut phase: # From: "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> To: &

Re: [xcat-user] genimage on old CentOS 7.4

has not been tested with 7.4 Mark Gurevich Poughkeepsie Development Lab HPC Software Development - xCAT "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" --Albert Einstein [Inactive hide details for "Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user" ---10/28/20

Re: [xcat-user] Confluent 3.3 is released, new stateless implementation

Jarrod, this seems to bridge the gap between xCAT and Confluent. Stateless is a long missing feature on Confluent. I'll definitely give it a try when I have some spare time. Is there any hot migrations available (without reinstalling the entire cluster)? Thanks. On 5 Jan 2022, at 15:38,

[xcat-user] Using https pkgdir with rhels8.5.0

Hello, I'm trying to run genimage with rhels8.5.0 and I've added some https repos to pkgdir image definition: [root@headnode repos]# lsdef -t osimage rhels8.5.0-x86_64-netboot-compute Object name: rhels8.5.0-x86_64-netboot-compute

Re: [xcat-user] Versionlock a given package in stateless compute

to perftest requirements. A solution would be to blacklist perftest from the OS, which is basically the same question in this thread, to solve the issue. So if there’s no way to version lock, is there at least a way to blacklist them? Thanks. > On 28 Jan 2022, at 20:38, Vinícius Ferrão wr

[xcat-user] Versionlock a given package in stateless compute

Hello, I would like to know if there’s a way to versionlock a give package in a stateless compute environment. Specifically I would like to fix the redhat-release package version. I tried adding the pinned versions to a pkglist file and running genimage but that was a no go. It just ignored

Re: [xcat-user] Announcement: xCAT Project End-Of-Life planned for December 1, 2023

Really sad news. Sent from my iPhone On 1 Sep 2023, at 13:52, Nathan A Besaw via xCAT-user wrote:  Mark Gurevich, Peter Wong, and I have been the primary xCAT maintainers for the past few years. This year, we have moved on to new roles unrelated to xCAT and can no longer continue to

Re: [xcat-user] Error during os provisioning

From: Vinícius Ferrão mailto:fer...@versatushpc.com.br>> Sent: 25 July 2022 10:16 To: xCAT Users Mailing list mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> Cc: SOPORTE MODEMAT mailto:soporte.mode...@epn.edu.ec>> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Error during os provisioning I don’t think this is

Re: [xcat-user] Network boot Memtest with xCAT

should work, but those instructions are from 2015, so they might not be complete in 2023. If you get a chance to try it out, report back on how it goes. From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2023 10:42 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list Cc

[xcat-user] Network boot Memtest with xCAT

Hello, I was wondering is theres a way to easily boot Memtest (https://www.memtest.org/) from xCAT. Someone already achieved this? Is there any ideia on how to do this? Theoretically I should use something like: netboot=memtest; but that's probably unspecified. Thanks.

[xcat-user] The state of Fedora support

Hello guys, someone have any information on Fedora support? Is it discontinued and should no be used anymore os there are plans for Fedora support? Thanks. ___ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [xcat-user] [External] BitTorrent distribution of stateless images with xCAT interesting to anyone?

Lenovo’s provisioner: Downloads hpc.lenovo.com [icon.png] Sent from my iPhone On 1 Apr 2023, at 10:41, Tomer

Re: [xcat-user] rsync on https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos

Any updates on this matter? Can we get it guys? Thanks. On 24 May 2023, at 00:32, Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user wrote: As for https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos/ which is the actual repositories (.deb and .rpm) it’s only 35GB. # du -sh xcat 35G xcat My plan is to keep it also public: http

Re: [xcat-user] rsync on https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos

u). If you are going to refresh your mirror infrequently (after every release?), using wget or curl may be sufficient. If you want to resync more regularly I would prefer to use a solution that includes incremental copying so you don't have to redownload ever file every time. ______

Re: [xcat-user] rsync on https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos

sync more regularly I >> would prefer to use a solution that includes incremental copying so you >> don't have to redownload ever file every time. >> >> >> From: Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user >> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2023 1:

Re: [xcat-user] rsync on https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos

m. I have the infrastructure to donate :-) On Tue, May 23, 2023, 6:36 PM Vinícius Ferrão via xCAT-user mailto:xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: Hi Kilian, reposync is great, mainly with Red Hat, since it’s the only way to mirror Red Hat distributions due to it’s “subscription ma

[xcat-user] rsync on https://xcat.org/files/xcat/repos

Hello, I would like to know if rsync is available on xCAT repository. I want to mirror it locally. I know that I can download the entire tarball from a given version, but I would like to use rsync to keep it updated. Thank you. ___ xCAT-user

[xcat-user] Support for IBM Remote Supervisor Supervisor II (RSA-II)

Hello, This thread may be offtopic on this list but I don’t have any other places to go with people may understand the question. I’ve bought this card thinking that it would provide IPMI for being controlled by Confluent (and xCAT maybe...) but I think I misunderstood what the device

Re: [xcat-user] [External] Re: RHEL9 support in xcat

A new updated was committed yesterday that addresses installation on 9.3. On 22 Feb 2024, at 21:35, Noah, Stuart via xCAT-user wrote: Hello Markus, Are there any new updates on EL9 support since 1/11. I know that it hasn’t been much time but I’m trying to put a migration plan together to