If you can get a network connection between the SN and MN on the same 
broadcast domain (subnet) you could use dhcprelay on the SN to forward to 
and from the MN. I think IPMI should work if you set the gateway in IMM. 


Norman Patten 
IBM Lab Services
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From:   Christian Caruthers/Richmond/IBM@IBMUS
To:     [email protected], 
Date:   07/11/2012 09:07 PM
Subject:        [xcat-user] Firewall ports for xCAT



We have an existing iDataPlex cluster, and we're adding 2 more racks. One 
of the systems in the new racks will be a service node, but the new 
hardware, including the new SN, is on a different subnet. The compute 
nodes in the new racks will be netbooting, and their images will need to 
be built on the SN since the MN is running an older version of RH than 
they want on the new hardware. They don't want the SN running a DHCP 
server if we can avoid it. All we're looking to have the MN do is handle 
DHCP and ipmi (r-tools, console). That said, is it safe to say a minimal 
list of ports to open up on the firewall between the two racks would be as 
follows: 

xcatd 
xcati 
dhcp 
dhcpc 
ipmi 
pxe 
postgresql (this wasn't listed on the wiki) 
conserver         
rpc-mount 

Have I missed anything? 

The plan is that the compute nodes will netboot off the SN, but the 
initial PXE/DHCP communication will be handled by the MN. Admin tools like 
rpower & rcons will be handled on the MN. We're not doing node discovery 
(MACs have been manually collected) and DNS is handled by their servers.

Regards, 

Christian D. Caruthers
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