Hi all,
I am working on upgrading an older xCAT 2.3 cluster to 2.8.1. One of the
issues my predecessors ran into is both bmcsetup and wvid not supporting
specific hardware at the time, and as a result a lot of customization
were done to the stock xCAT code to add support. Specifically:
* bmcsetup - Added "if" statements to several spots to prevent some
functions from running if the hardware isn't IBM. These functions
caused bmcsetup to fail on certain Dell hardware.
* wvid - Edited several modules (ipmi.pm, blade.pm) to add support for
older IBM blade hardware, Dell iKVM, c6100's, etc. Will launch
appropriate rvid scripts based on columns we are keying off of.
I am trying to avoid porting these changes to 2.8.1's code base, as it
makes future upgrades very difficult. Specifically, I do not want to
edit any of the stock files provided by the xCAT packages if I can help it.
Is there a better way of adding support for unsupported hardware to wvid
and bmcsetup? Any recommendations on how best to go about it?
Thanks so much!
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