What do you see if you run (assumes you're using SNMPv1 & "public" community 
string):

snmpwalk -v 1 -c public {SWITCH_NAME} .1.3.6.1.2.1.31.1.1.1.1

This should show how the switch reports the ports.

Regards,
Christian Caruthers
Lenovo Professional Services
Mobile: 757-289-9872

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas HUMMEL <thomas.hum...@pasteur.fr> 
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2021 08:35
To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [External] [xcat-user] Switch based discovery with mix of splitted and 
non splitted ports

Hello,

Currently, I'm using xCAT 2.16.1 on CentOS 8.2 to provision CentOS 8.3 
stateless nodes using switch based discovery.

I've been doing this for many years with success.

I always did that in either one of the 2 following cases :

a) no switch port were using splitters
b) all switch ports were using splitter

For b) I did successfully use either the n/x or the n.x syntax

Today, I encountered what may seem an xCAT issue (not sure though, it could be 
a switch configuration issue) for it is the first time I've got a switch where 
I mix direct and split port attachement.

The actual switch is an   Arista 7050TX-72Q: 48x 1/10GbE (RJ 45) and 6x 
40GbE, where all nodes are rj45 attached except one which is connected using 
one of the 4 link of a 40G port using a splitter

What happens is the following :

a) nodeA on port 1 was previously provisionned using switch-based discovery 
without any problem

b) I set up the node definition for nodeS which is connected to port
49.1 (I used this dot-based syntax)

-> nodeS is discovered with the name of nodeA and nodeA is assigned
nodeS mac adress

so things get mixed up.

Can you help me figure out

- what syntax is the canonical one for split ports

- if this is an xCAT problem or a switch problem

?

Thanks for your help

--
Thomas HUMMEL



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