We're using SI 4.1.7 from the SVN trunk (have built RPMs from trunk on May 22, 2009). SI works really great out of the box for imaging our older IBM Opteron nodes as well as with our new Intel Nehalem nodes from HP.
Now I would like to use the wonderful Bittorrent transport to image the nodes faster than with the usual Rsync transport. I've read the SI documentation for Bittorrent and documented how to install RPMs in https://wiki.fysik.dtu.dk/niflheim/SystemImager_Installation#installing-bittorrent-transport-with-systemimager I've configured /etc/systemimager/bittorrent.conf with appropriate values for BT_INTERFACE and BT_IMAGES. I start the systemimager-bittorrent service on the SI server and configure the client's PXE boot with BITTORRENT=y. For testing purposes I boot only a single client, and it boots SI normally and eventually gets to the Bittorrent section. Here is a partial virtual console log from si_monitortk: > Pinging your SystemImager server to ensure we have network connectivity. > ... > We have connectivity to your SystemImager server! > Monitoring initialized. > ... > get_torrents_directory > rsync -a 10.1.128.2::torrents/ /torrents/ > > get_boel_binaries_tarball > Start downloading boel_binaries.tar.gz (x86_64) using bittorrent > > --> INFO: remember to start /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-bittorrent on the > image server! > > percent done: 0.0 % > percent done: 0.0 % > percent done: 0.0 % > percent done: 0.0 % > percent done: 0.0 % This 0.0% just continues forever ! Nothing seems to get installed at all, even though the x86_64-boel_binaries.tar.gz.torrent and x86_64-boel_binaries.tar.gz file are available in /var/lib/systemimager/torrents/. Question: What is wrong with my SI Bittorrent setup ? -- Ole Holm Nielsen Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
