If you look at handle commands in the plugins and find nodehm:mgt, you can see how it drives the selection of which plugin will run for various commands. So if nodehm.mgt is ipmi for the node, then the ipmi.pm plugin will be called for rinv below. This is a pretty complex area. I asked some our our developers if there is a way to do what I think you want to do . You want to add a plugin to run some commands and yet still use the ipmi plugin for others.
ipmi.pm:
sub handled_commands {
return {
rpower => 'nodehm:power,mgt', #done
renergy => 'nodehm:power,mgt',
getipmicons => 'ipmi', #done
rspconfig => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rspreset => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rvitals => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rinv => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rflash => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rsetboot => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
rbeacon => 'nodehm:mgt', #done
reventlog => 'nodehm:mgt',
Lissa K. Valletta
8-3/B10
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(tie 293) 433-3102
From: Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me>
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net,
Date: 01/13/2014 02:39 PM
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] bmc attribute confusion
Also just for more info, this is a Dell SC1435 node that has an upgraded
iDRAC that uses a java console, while power is controlled via standard
IPMI. So, we need to be able to do nodehm.power=ipmi, and nodehm.mgt=iKVM.
Then under /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin, we have a custom iKVM.pm module
that gets called when wvid is ran.
On 1/13/2014 1:35 PM, Russell Jones wrote:
Thanks!
I was under the impression mgt attribute was just a "catch-all" for
if you didn't want to have to manually set both nodehm.power and
nodehm.cons.
We have custom perl modules that are utilizing nodehm.mgt for storing
data for launching custom java consoles when wvid is called. So that
I am better aware of what the downsides are to this, what is
nodehm.mgt used for that nodehm.power and nodehm.cons is not?
On 1/13/2014 10:07 AM, Lissa Valletta wrote:
You need to provide the mgt attribute also as indicated by the
error message. Sure you can tabedit and get around it but that
is not satisfying the xcat database setup requirement. You
need to tell us the method used for hardware control, in this
case ipmi.
Use this document as a reference:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_iDataPlex_Cluster_Quick_Start
Lissa K. Valletta
8-3/B10
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(tie 293) 433-3102
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03:08:33 PM---Hi all, When configuring a node to utilize a
java console vRussell Jones ---01/10/2014 03:08:33 PM---Hi all,
When configuring a node to utilize a java console via wvid, and
ipmi for
From: Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Date: 01/10/2014 03:08 PM
Subject: [xcat-user] bmc attribute confusion
Hi all,
When configuring a node to utilize a java console via wvid, and
ipmi for power, things get a little screwy:
[root@master xCAT_plugin]# chdef c01n69 bmc=c01n69-bmc
Cannot set the 'bmc' attribute unless a value is provided
for 'mgt'.
mgt => The method to use to do general hardware
management of the node. This attribute is used as the
default if power or getmac is not set. Valid values:
ipmi, blade, hmc, ivm, fsp, bpa. See the power attribute
for more details.
Error: Cannot set the attr='bmc' attribute unless
'mgt=ipmi'.
1 object definitions have been created or modified.
An lsdef of the node shows the bmc attribute empty. I have to
manually edit the ipmi table to add the bmc address for the
node so that rpower works. "lsdef" still shows it blank, but at
least at that point rpower is able to communicate with the
node's BMC.
Why is xCAT requiring mgt to be set for the BMC attribute, and
all I am trying to do is utilize rpower for remote power
control?
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