The way I read it, this was a design suggestion for a future version of
xCAT; it is described as a low-priority item. It may not yet be implemented.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Christian Caruthers <ccaruth...@lenovo.com>
wrote:
> Using this as a reference:
>
>
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Exporting_more_
> table_attributes_to_nodes/
>
>
>
> Currently, we have n1…n10 configured in xCAT. These are internal
> hostnames. All of these hosts have external "public" IP addresses, and the
> desire is to have the hosname match the public name.
>
>
>
> Short of setting up DNS for the public IPs, which I really don't want to
> do since there will be an external DNS server w/ that info, I thought I
> could use an unused table.field (prodkey.key) for a <profile>.envlist file.
> So I have:
>
>
>
> ls -la /install/custom/install/rh/x86_84/chum.envlist
>
> prodkey,key,,NEWHOST
>
>
>
> (NOTE: I have also tried this in /install/custom/install/rh/)
>
>
>
> lsdef n1 | egrep 'profile|post|productkey'
>
> postbootscripts=<snip>,chumhostname
>
> productkey=rabidgator1.floridaman.arrr.edu
>
> profile=chum
>
>
>
> cat /install/postscripts/chumhostname
>
> hostnamectl set-hostname $NEWHOST
>
>
>
> When I try this with updatenode, it doesn't appear to be grabbing the info
> from that envlist file. Is this feature still in use? If not, what's a
> recommended way to set a different hostname?
>
>
>
> Regards,
> *Christian Caruthers*
> Lenovo Professional Services
>
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