winner ;) worked like a dream
thanks for the such quick response rebooted 42 nodes, and voila, all done in a flash -- Arif Ali catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali On 1 May 2012 21:42, Jarrod B Johnson <jbjoh...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > I've attached files from trunk to replace > > /opt/xcat/share/xcat/netboot/genesis/x86_64/fs/bin/bmcsetup > /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/bmcconfig.pm > /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/Schema.pm > > *(See attached file: bmcconfig.pm)**(See attached file: bmcsetup)**(See > attached file: Schema.pm)* > > Replace all of them > service xcatd restart > mknb x86_64 > nodech <noderange> ipmi.taggedvlan=<blah> > Try bmcsetup. > > It worked about as well as it ever did in my environment, let me know if > this works out... > > [image: Inactive hide details for Arif Ali ---05/01/2012 04:03:08 > PM---Good point, But now you're looking at extra N number of switches]Arif > Ali ---05/01/2012 04:03:08 PM---Good point, But now you're looking at extra > N number of switches, and N*42 cables; > > From: Arif Ali <arifa...@gmail.com> > To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net, > Date: 05/01/2012 04:03 PM > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] vLAN on ipmi interface > > ------------------------------ > > > > Good point, > > But now you're looking at extra N number of switches, and N*42 cables; > which would imply cost > > with the original config NW, and IB cables alone creates a big bunch at > the front, with the doors barely closing. Lets say we do decide with that > suggestion then extra cables this setup will provide, it would be immensely > difficult to tidy away, or even for the doors to close. > > But yes, your idea did crop up in my mind as well > > regards, > * > Arif* > > On 01/05/12 20:51, Mike Lovell wrote: > > doesn't the dx360 m4 have a dedicated ethernet port that can be used > exclusively for the imm? if so, is there a reason you can't use it and > have > the switch put it in a different vlan? i would think this would be an > easier and less error prone way to get network isolation on your imm > interfaces. > > mike > > On 05/01/2012 01:12 PM, Arif Ali wrote: > It has been requested on one my customer sites, and currently > testing this out. > > On the nodes itself, no vconfig is required, and as long as > the pvid is on the lan network, it seems to work (This is on the > BNT G8052 > switches and dx360 m4). The obvious thing there is that the MN > needs to be > configured with IPs on the seperate vlans. This has been done on > this > particular setup, and it seems to work. > > Maybe have a vlan column in the ipmi table, and then the > bmcsetup to somehow grab the info from the fields. > > The biggest problem for customers if the the network was not > isolated, then a person with root access would potentially be > able to set > an IP in the range and able to power machines down. This is what > is being > restricted here. > > But, comments from other people around would also be useful > here > > regards, > -- > Arif Ali > > catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali > > > > On 1 May 2012 19:56, Jarrod B Johnson > <*jbjoh...@us.ibm.com*<jbjoh...@us.ibm.com>> > wrote: > It's a moderately small change to support the vlan tag > setup on IPMI 2.0 devices. The biggest problem is in the case > where it > would be used, it's actually fairly spotty. > > For example, last time I looked, if you set a service > processor to use a tagged vlan on an igb based device, the > traffic would > not be passed if the driver loaded and no one did a 'vconfig > add' on the > nic. In that scenario I personally couldn't seriously > recommend the > configuration (for one, it makes it more blatantly obvious > there is little > meaningful separation of the NIC VLAN from the service > processor vlan, for > another I'm wary of strategies which require the OS to be > configured and > run *just right* for the systems management to work...). > > If my view of the world is outdated or a significant > number of people think I'm too picky, I can add the vlan > config option. > > [image: Inactive hide details for Arif Ali ---05/01/2012 > 02:13:54 PM---All, are there any plan to support vLAN on the > ipmi interface > at]Arif Ali ---05/01/2012 02:13:54 PM---All, are there any > plan to support vLAN on the ipmi interface at all? > > From: Arif Ali <*m...@arif-ali.co.uk* <m...@arif-ali.co.uk> > > > To: "Mailing list, xCAT" > <*xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net*<xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>>, > > Date: 05/01/2012 02:13 PM > Subject: [xcat-user] vLAN on ipmi interface > ------------------------------ > > > > All, > > are there any plan to support vLAN on the ipmi interface > at all? > > regards, > -- > Arif Ali > > catch me on freenode IRC, username: arif-ali > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's > security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can > respond. 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