Garrick,
I can appreciate not wanting to upgrade when things are stable.  It's when
things go wrong that trying to figure out what exactly is happening in your
version of the code becomes difficult for us, since we have potentially
moved far beyond where you are and may have difficulty putting together the
pieces (working with vibrant and dynamic software is both a blessing and a
curse at times!)

So, before you upgrade, one place to look:  Do you have any postscripts set
for your nodes that might be trying to configure your network interfaces?

        lsdef <nodes> -i postscripts,postbootscripts

These scripts are all stored in /install/postscripts, so you can grep
through them to see if anything is changing your ifcfg files.

Your "At long intervals, we are finding that the ifcfg-eth* are being
overwritten..." could be caused by running updatenode to the nodes for
other reasons, and a postscript reconfiguring your network interfaces is
running as a side affect.

Linda



From:   Garrick Staples <[email protected]>
To:     <[email protected]>,
Date:   02/24/2014 08:11 PM
Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] xCAT dhcpd overwrites ifcfg-eth* files?



$ xcatconfig -v
Version 2.6.9 (svn r10986, built Wed Nov  9 04:49:31 EST 2011)

Ah crap. I hate upgrading stuff that works fine.


On 02/24/2014 09:27 AM, Lissa Valletta wrote:


      Why are you using such an old level of xCAT?     You should be using
      the  current 2.8 release -  2.8.3.  Even using 2.7 you should be at
      2.7.8 by now.

      Lissa K. Valletta
      8-3/B10
      Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
      (tie 293) 433-3102



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      From: "Engdahl, Rod" <[email protected]>
      To: "[email protected]"
      <[email protected]>,
      Date: 02/24/2014 12:16 PM
      Subject: [xcat-user] xCAT dhcpd overwrites ifcfg-eth* files?





      I have an issue with a relatively new xCAT-maintained cluster of
      redhat nodes.

      We use xCAT and the associated DHCP functionality for system
      provisioning and upgrades, but all of our nodes normally have static
      IP addresses.  At long intervals, we are finding that the ifcfg-eth*
      are being overwritten, causing us to go in and add IPADDR and NETMASK
      lines to ifcfg-eth* files that no longer have them, and restart the
      network service.  At the same time, for example, ifcfg-eth*.xcat
      files are created.

      I suspect that dhcp is doing this, but would like to confirm before I
      try to remediate.

      RHEL 6.4
      xCAT: Version 2.7.6 (svn r14451, built Tue Nov 27 21:57:27 EST 2012)
      
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