Hello. I am running XCAT 2.16 on CentOS 7 on an air-gapped network and I have a few questions:
1) how may I disable the "genesis" discovery functionality? A previous node management system had a default behavior of booting from network, and only the nodes that were marked for install would be installed, but all other nodes would boot from local disk with a slight delay. Many of these nodes are getting stuck in a boot loop where they boot genesis instead of their own OS from local disk, and the genesis process never completes, it just loops forever. I need to make this discovery process work properly or shut it off completely. One relevant error message on console: "xcat.genesis.minixcatd: The request is already processed by xCAT master, but not matched." (repeat every 5 minutes for ever) 2) I have successfully installed an OS (CentOS 7.8) on a few nodes, but the nodes somehow are configured with ssh key files that have permissions "640" which cause the sshd to fail and exit with an error, which means I cannot login remotely. This does not seem like a reasonable default. If there is a configuration setting in XCAT that will help me fix this before the OS install is finished that would be very helpful. 3) I want to install other packages during the post install process, but any attempts so far have not succeeded: Example typed from printed logs: xcatmn# lsdef node1 node1: arch=x86_64 bmc=10.10.10.10 bmcpassword=(enter_password_here) cons=ipmi consoleenabled=1 groups=all,x86_64 mac=1:2:3:4:5:6 mgt=ipmi netboot=xnba os=centos7.8 postbootscripts=otherpkgs postscripts=systlog,remoteshell,syncfiles profile=compute provmethod=centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute routenames=defaultroute status=failed status=(insert date here) xcatmn# lsdef -t osimage centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute imagetype=linux osarch=x86_64 osdistroname=centos7.8-x86_64 osname=Linux osvers=centos7.8 otherpkgdir=/install/post/otherpkgs/centos7.8/x86_64 otherpkglist=/install/custom/pkglist/compute.otherpkglist.txt partitionfile=/install/custom/partition/compute-default-partition.txt pkgdir=/install/centos7.8/x86_64 pkglist=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos7.pkglist profile=compute provmethod=install template=/opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/centos/compute.centos7.tmpl I cannot find the "otherpkgs" script. I attempted to use "chdef" to create a "otherpkgs" attribute on the osimage, but it gave an error saying that attribute was only valid for an OS type of "NIM" or something that did not match my environment. I am trying to install 'ansible" and all the dependent packages have been gathered and copied to the "otherpkgdir" above and the list of packages in that dir is included in the "otherpkglist". Sorry if I made typos above, and thanks in advance for your help. -Jim _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
