Hello,
I am under the impression that the idea of xcat is to allow
deployment and provisioning of systems without having to touch each
one or change the bios settings.
After spending some time reviewing the documentation, I am still
unable to get xcat to contact my nodes.When trying rpower commands, I
get a timeout error. I am sure that there must be some fundamental
piece missing in my setup, so let's review what I have:
I have 2 networks, a private network and a (semi)public network. On
all the nodes (including management node), eth0 is on the private
network, and eth1 is on the public.
The public network has its own dhcp and dns server, so that part is
taken care of externally.
I have a dell C6100, a 4-node machine that is essentially 4 separate
computers in one box.
It is setup with all of the out-of-the-box defaults. These will be my
compute nodes (n1-n4).
These are the node I am trying to reach via xcat. These nodes and the
management node below are all on the same networks.
I have single management node running redhat linux 6.
I am running version 2.7 of the xcat code, installed from the
repository via yum. I also have the xcat-deps installed.
I added the nodes (only 4 of them) to the /etc/hosts manually. I also
added them to the hosts table in xcat.
I ran makenetworks, and edited the network table to disable the
public network, just keep the private net.
I ran makedns and makedhcp. I can reboot the nodes manually, and they
come up with their correct names and IP addresses.
I am able to view and edit the tables. This is a dump of the current
table structures I have.
Perhaps I am missing something in my tables ? Perhaps there is
another essential table I am missing ?
Thanks for your help,
Al Quiros
Florida international University
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site
#key,value,comments,disable
"domain","p.fiu.edu",,
"blademaxp","64",,
"fsptimeout","0",,
"installdir","/install",,
"ipmimaxp","64",,
"ipmiretries","3",,
"ipmitimeout","2",,
"consoleondemand","no",,
"master","10.0.0.3",,
"forwarders","131.94.205.10,131.94.7.220,131.94.69.36",,
"nameservers","10.0.0.3",,
"maxssh","8",,
"ppcmaxp","64",,
"ppcretry","3",,
"ppctimeout","0",,
"powerinterval","0",,
"syspowerinterval","0",,
"sharedtftp","1",,
"SNsyncfiledir","/var/xcat/syncfiles",,
"tftpdir","/tftpboot",,
"xcatdport","3001",,
"xcatiport","3002",,
"xcatconfdir","/etc/xcat",,
"timezone","America/New_York",,
"useNmapfromMN","no",,
"enableASMI","no",,
"db2installloc","/mntdb2",,
"databaseloc","/var/lib",,
"sshbetweennodes","ALLGROUPS",,
"dnshandler","ddns",,
"vsftp","n",,
"cleanupxcatpost","no",,
networks
#netname,net,mask,mgtifname,gateway,dhcpserver,tftpserver,nameservers,ntpservers,logservers,dynamicrange,nodehostname,ddnsdomain,vlanid,domain,comments,disable
"private","10.0.0.0","255.255.254.0","eth0","10.0.0.3","10.0.03","10.0.0.3","131.94.205.10,131.94.7.220",,,"10.0.0.10-10.0.0.128",,,,,,
"public_disabled","10.106.128.0","255.255.254.0","eth1","10.106.128.1",,"10.106.128.12",,,,,,,,,,"1"
nodelist
#node,groups,status,statustime,appstatus,appstatustime,primarysn,hidden,comments,disable
"n1","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n2","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n3","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
"n4","ipmi,compute,all",,,,,,,,
nodehm
#node,power,mgt,cons,termserver,termport,conserver,serialport,serialspeed,serialflow,getmac,comments,disable
"compute",,"ipmi",,,,,,,,,,
ipmi
#node,bmc,bmcport,username,password,comments,disable
mp
#node,mpa,id,nodetype,comments,disable
mpa
#mpa,username,password,comments,disable
noderes
#node,servicenode,netboot,tftpserver,tftpdir,nfsserver,monserver,nfsdir,installnic,primarynic,discoverynics,cmdinterface,xcatmaster,current_osimage,next_osimage,nimserver,routenames,comments,disable
"compute",,"pxe","10.0.0.3",,"10.0.0.3",,,"eth0","eth0",,,,,,,,,
"ipmi",,"pxe","10.0.0.3",,"10.0.0.3",,,"eth0","eth0",,,,,,,,,
passwd
#key,username,password,cryptmethod,comments,disable
"ipmi","root","password",,,
"omapi","xcat_key","eVlKQVFiOHg5NkFTa3pRdkhSVEZHeE1nN1RVRWZZc1Q=",,,
chain
#node,currstate,currchain,chain,ondiscover,comments,disable
"n1","runcmd=bmcsetup",,,,,
switch
#node,switch,port,vlan,interface,comments,disable
nodetype
#node,os,arch,profile,provmethod,supportedarchs,nodetype,comments,disable
"n1","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n2","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n3","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
"n4","image","x86","rh5image-rh66-v0","image","x86,x86_64",,,
mac
#node,interface,mac,comments,disable
"n1","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:09:34",,
"n2","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:05:90",,
"n3","eth0","00:26:6C:FF:07:B4",,
"n4","eth0","00:26:6C:FE:FD:28",,
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