Hmm, with xcat 2.7.3 you should be pulling in the 'xCAT-genesis' packages that replace the environment with something newer that has the appropriate nic drivers...
-----Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.com> wrote: -----To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
From: Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.com>
Date: 07/25/2012 12:59PM
Subject: [xcat-user] Getdestiny failing - can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver'
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I have some new IBM System X DX360M4 nodes (all our previous ones were DX360M3s) that I am trying to autodiscover with xCAT and I am running into the same problem as in this mail thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01267.html. Essentially the node boots up, does a dhcpdiscover, and grabs a generic bootloader (in my case yaboot but it also works with pxelinux.0) which then reinitiates the dhcpdiscover and queries again for the appropriate bootloader from the file in the xcat/xnba/nets/ folder and is served & boots xnba.kpxe. At this point I believe the xnba image is supposed to load and execute the autodiscovery process which includes the getdestiny script, but all I am seeing are the messages:
cat: can't open '/tmp/dhcpserver': No such file or directory
grep: /tmp/destiny: No such file or directory
grep: /tmp/destiny: No such file or directory
One reply by Jarrod Johnson to that email thread above mentioned a possible network driver issue and suggested using Genesis from xCAT v2.7. According to 'xcatconfig -v' I am running Version 2.3.1 of xCAT and I am running on Centos 5 (2.6.18-128.el5). Is there a way to get this working with my current version of xCAT and OS (inject drivers somehow?), or do I need to update to v2.7 of xCAT (does that require Centos 6)? In any case, is a network driver the most likely explanation for what I am seeing? I have tried everything that I can think of from the switch side to make sure SNMP is enabled and the port definitions are correct in the switch table for autodiscovery. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Josh Nielsen
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