Actually, it occurs to me to ask: Can Jordi's presentation be uploaded to
the sourceforge wiki so that it can benefit more people?
-Josh
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Josh Nielsen <jniel...@hudsonalpha.org>
wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> I had a similar experience to you in the matter of the documentation only
> taking me so far and the rest was left to my "real world" implementations
> (mostly troubleshooting when things didn't go as expected). xCAT has
> dependencies on many other things that are assumed to be working already
> (like SNMP on switches if you are using network discovery, to take one
> example among many), and so has many moving pieces. I too found the Sumavi
> documentation useful to an extent. I have over 20 pages of notes in a
> google doc of my own observations on specific xCAT things I have run into.
>
> To add to your list of documentation though, I discovered this little gem
> of a presentation by Jordi Caubet working at IBM Spain given in 2011:
> http://www.bsc.es/media/4373.pdf. It may not cover everything you need
> but I actually found that it had details about xCAT that you cannot find
> elsewhere. For example on slide 56 he shows the exact order that deployment
> template scripts are parsed in in a very useful picture, which is
> information not even to be found in the sourceforge wiki (maybe someone
> reading this can fix that?).
>
> Anyway, maybe that will give you something you are looking for.
>
> Regards,
> Josh Nielsen
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me>
> wrote:
>
>> This is a good start. It's a little bit old and does some things in a
>> different way than I would, but the overall information in it is great:
>> http://sumavi.com/books/xcat-administrators-guide
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/2014 2:35 PM, John Hosie wrote:
>>
>> I'm working on a government contract to support an HPC environment that
>> uses xCAT. I've spent over 7 1/2 months working with a document that really
>> doesn't say much more than how to get hardware support that was produced by
>> the vendor who did the initial installation. I've also used what I could
>> find in Google. But, to tell you the truth, none of it really seems to be
>> all that "good". It tells me about this or that implementation, and can be
>> adapted to meet my needs, but it takes time and effort that seems to be
>> more than should be necessary.
>>
>> Now, it may be better than it once was. I'll give you that. But I'd like
>> to know if there is a good published document out there I can look for,
>> electronic or pulp, that I can use to give me better guidance? What is
>> there out there? And are there any sites you've run across that might help
>> me to fill in the gaps in my current knowledge?
>>
>> Don't get me wrong. I really do appreciate the pieces of documentation
>> I've found. I'd just like to find something that would help me to be able
>> to tie it all together better.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> *John W. Hosie III*
>>
>> *jwh3*
>>
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