There was a SARA setup leftover in this version. This is now fixed in
version 3.0.1:
{{{
3.0.1:
* Import AdvancedParser instead of sara location.
Author: Maarten van Ingen (SARA)
}}}
Bas van der Vlies wrote:
> 3.0.0:
> * Added the AdvancedParser module created by Dennis Stam (SARA). This
> removed a lot of obsolete code and command line options. The new version
> is not compatible with the previous one.
> Author: Bas van der Vlies & Dennis Stam
>
> * New directory structure, added src directory.
> Author: Bas van der Vlies
>
> * Pxeconfig is now a python module and can be used inside python programs.
> Author: Bas van der Vlies
>
> * Added python setup method to support the new behaviour
>
> === Usage Example ===
> Usage: pxeconfig [-f,--filename <name>] <hosts>
>
> Specifying hostnames:
> To specify a range use the [] to indicate a range,
> a couple of examples:
>
> The first five nodes of rack 16
> - gb-r16n[1-5]
>
> The first five nodes and node 12 and 18 of rack 16 to 20
> - gb-r[16-20]n[1-5,12,18]
>
> The first five nodes de in rack 16 with padding enabled
> - gb-r[16]n[01-5]
>
> The ranges ([]) are not only limited to numbers, letters can also be used.
>
>
> =====================================================================
>
> For more info about the package see the pxeconfig homepage:
> * https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/pxeconfig
>
> You can download the latest release from:
> * ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz
>
>
> Here is the README:
> =====================================================================
> PXE-utilities
> -------------
>
> This is a release of the SARA package of utilities that we use to boot
> our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we
> always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot
> device. With pxelinux, which is a derivative of syslinux, you can
> specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This
> configuration is placed in, e.g. '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory.
>
> The PXE-menu tools are used to control the booting of networked computers
> directly from the computer's console at the BIOS level before any operating
> system has been loaded. This is extremely useful for diagnostic purposes,
> or for selecting an operating system installation method, of an individual
> computer. For further information please read the files README-pxemenu and
> INSTALL-pxemenu.
>
> In our setup we have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from
> harddisk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file
> and the configuration file tells the node to boot from the harddisk.
> This setup is used for nodes that have already been installed by
> systemimager.
>
> At SARA we have developed the following strategy how to install a fresh
> node.
>
> 1) The ip-address in our setup is known for the new node. So
> we make a link in the '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory to a
> pxe config file which tells that it has to fetch the kernel en
> root filesystem from our bootserver, eg:
> 0A000A02 ---> default.node_install (10.0.10.2)
>
> 2) The client starts and uses the systemimager software to install
> the node. The last line of installation script connects to a
> daemon on the bootserver. This daemon will remove the PXE config
> filefor this node.
>
> 3) The node reboots and will use the default pxe config file which
> will instruct the node to boot from harddisk.
>
> This release contains the following utilities:
>
> pxeconfigd)
> This is daemon that removes the pxe configuration file of a node.
>
> pxeconfig)
> With this program we can specify which pxe config file
> a node or nodes must use. This utility will create the links
> in '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'
>
> hexls)
> Is a utility that diplays a directory, and, if in this directory
> contains HEX files, it will convert them to IP-numbers.
>
>
> Comments or Suggestions mail them to:
> pxeconfig at sara dot nl
> http://www.sara.nl for more info about SARA.
>
>
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* Bas van der Vlies e-mail: b...@sara.nl *
* SARA - Academic Computing Services Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
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