Hi Ling,

fping is available:
[/]# which fping
/bin/fping

[/]# pping -f aix01
aix01: ping
[/]# echo $?
0


2015-08-11 15:28 GMT+02:00 Ling Gao <[email protected]>:

> Carsten,
>      Can you verify that the nmap or fping is installed on the xCAT
> management server?
> Then you can try to run pping command to see if it works.
> If fping is installed, run pping -f <nodename>
> If nmap is installed, run pping <nodename>
> After the pping command, can you run echo $?  to see what it gives you?
>
> Please show me the results.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ling
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: [email protected], 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
> Einstein
>
>
>
> From:        Carsten Fenner <[email protected]>
> To:        xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]>
> Date:        08/11/2015 05:34 AM
> Subject:        Re: [xcat-user] xdcp issue
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I set usefping=1, but it did not change anything to the pping error.
> Also xdcp without -v returns the pping error.
> I am also not sure whether site.usefping is supported as the Parameter is
> not listed with lsdef -h -t site.
>
> Kind regards,
> Carsten
>
> Am 10.08.2015 17:40 schrieb "Ling Gao" <*[email protected]*
> <[email protected]>>:
> Hi,
>     Welcome to xCAT!  :-).
>     Could you set "usefping"  to 1 at the site table?  (you an use tabedit
> site command).  xdcp -v calls pping to verify that the nodes can be
> reachable before syncing the files. pping uses nmap if  site.usefping is
> not set, otherwise it uses fping. Anyway, please make sure that the fping
> or nmap is installed on the xCAT management node and set the site attribute
> accordingly.  Hope it helps.
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: *[email protected]* <[email protected]>, *845-433-5692*
> <845-433-5692>
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
> Einstein
>
>
>
> From:        Carsten Fenner <*[email protected]*
> <[email protected]>>
> To:        *[email protected]*
> <[email protected]>
> Date:        08/10/2015 10:59 AM
> Subject:        [xcat-user] xdcp issue
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi all,
> I am a newbie to xcat...
>
> I set up xcat (version 2.9) with one management node and two clients, each
> at AIX 7.1 TL3 SP4.
>
> When I run
> xdcp aixnodes -v  -F /tmp/AIX.synclist
>
> I get the message:
> Error: Error from pping
>
> The file in my synclist /tmp/AIX.synclist is synced.
>
> Any hints, why I get the error message from pping?
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