We have about 8000 nodes that would be sitting on DHCP and trying to update their leases whenever it expires - that's a lot of unnecessary traffic and log entries. So we utilize hardeths to turn the interface into a statically-assigned IP to prevent that.


On 9/11/2013 10:13 AM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote:

That's interesting that why do you want to set the static ip for a stateless node?
 
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          weren't booting, Russell Jones ---2013/09/10 23:41:17---Thanks Xiao, The issue wasn't that the nodes weren't booting, just that dryrun wasn't

From: Russell Jones <[email protected]>
To: [email protected],
Date: 2013/09/10 23:41
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] missing -i flag from genimage --dryrun





Thanks Xiao,

The issue wasn't that the nodes weren't booting, just that dryrun wasn't giving me the interface flag that is required. Unfortunately genimage still seems to need this flag to produce the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. Hardeths needs this file to be able to correctly create a static interface file. Am I missing something there?

I also found that the "nodebootif" option in osimage was what I was looking for to give me the missing "-i" flag.

Thoughts? Is there a way to properly get the needed /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file into the image without using the "-i" flag? Or a way to get hardeths to cooperate when the ifcfg-eth0 file isn't there?


On 9/1/2013 10:20 PM, Xiao Peng Wang wrote:

    Generally, xCAT recommends to use the mac address to specify the boot network interface. That means during the genimage, no specific interface needs be specified, but configure the mac address for node and set installnic=mac so that during the boot of stateless image, the interface which specified with the specific 'mac' will be used.

    So the problem was that did you configure your node correctly with the mac and installnic attributes I guess.


    If you really want to specify the network interface by yourself, just use the -i flag anyway.



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          CentOS 5 imRussell Jones ---2013/08/31 07:11:31---Hi all, I am following this guide for generating a CentOS 5 image on a CentOS 6

    From:
    Russell Jones <[email protected]>
    To:
    [email protected],
    Date:
    2013/08/31 07:11
    Subject:
    [xcat-user] missing -i flag from genimage --dryrun



    Hi all,

    I am following this guide for generating a CentOS 5 image on a CentOS 6
    management node:

    http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=Building_a_Stateless_Image_of_a_Different_Architecture_or_OS 


    When I am running the "genimage --dryrun $osimage", it produces output
    that does not include the "-i" flag that specifies $prinic, which is
    then used for creating the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$prinic
    file by the genimage script. As a result, the image that is generated is
    missing ifcfg-eth0 file, and hardeths fails on the node.

    Am I missing configuration somewhere that would give me the missing -i
    flag for my genimage line?


    Thanks!

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