Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade

Long LA Cheng Thu, 22 Jun 2017 20:49:44 -0700

Hi Kilian,

Thanks for your reply, I explain some historical reasons that we do not use the conserver from upstream directly.

1. xcat should support some old version systems. From their default repo, it can not get the conserver with the proper version. conserver supports the option of sslcacertificatefile until 8.1.19.

2. Another reason is that xcat is trying to support some scenario that the management node can not connect to the internet repo directly, the user can copy the repo files and create the repo locally.

Thanks.

Best Regards

Long Cheng(程龙)
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----- Original message -----
From: Long LA Cheng/China/IBM
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 11:26 AM

Hi Dave Johnson,

Sorry for the inconvenience，I guess this error is due to the inconsistencies of the xcat-core(2.13.4) and xcat-dep(2.13.5 dev) from online repo.

As conserver-xcat has been upgrade to the latest version (8.2.1), some configuration option from upstream is different from the old one with patches.

Can you try the steps below to see if it can solve the problem:

sed -i 's/sslauthority/sslcacertificatefile/1' $HOME/.consolerc

sed -i 's/sslauthority/sslcacertificatefile/1' /etc/conserver.cf

service conserver restart

Thanks

Best Regards

Long Cheng(程龙)
IBM Systems &Technology Group, Development
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Tel:86-10-82453046
Email:cheng...@cn.ibm.com
Address: 3F, Building 28, Zhong Guan Cun Software Park, No.8, Dong Bei Wang West Road, Hai Dian District, Beijing 100193, PRC
地址：国际商业机器中国(投资)有限公司, 中国系统科技实验室, 北京市海淀区东北旺西路8号中关村软件园28号楼3层，邮编:100193

----- Original message -----
From: Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.w...@gmail.com>
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] conserver / rcons errors after upgrade
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2017 5:39 AM

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 1:55 PM, David D. Johnson
<david_john...@brown.edu> wrote:
> Just finished updating xcat front-end node from rhels7.2 to rhels7.3, at the same time
> as updating from xcat from 2.12.something to 2.13.4. Since then rcons gives me these errors:
>
>
> [root@mgt5 etc]# rcons node475
> console: invalid keyword 'sslauthority' [/root/.consolerc:3]

> What did I miss in the upgrade?

Argh, it's partly my fault: I'm the one who requested an upgrade of
the conserver version that ships in xcat-deps:
https://github.com/xcat2/xcat-dep/issues/18

On the other hand, I haven't seen any announce or notification about
the update. Since it breaks existing configurations, it could have
been a good idea.

Anyway, long story short, the xCAT-provided version of conserver had
10yo local patches to support SSL. Those have made their way upstream
since then, but with some different option names. So what you'll need
to do is replace the "sslauthority" directive by
"sslcacertificatefile" in both /etc/conserver.cf and /root/.consolerc

I guess now that the conserver version in xcat-dep is the same as
upstream, it's not really necessary to ship it in xcat-dep, the
dependency could just be made on the upstream version (which is in
EPEL and SLES). Or is there any reason to keep a xCAT-specific
version?

Cheers,
--
Kilian

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