OK, great thanks! I wrote a quick script to cross check DNS for each host,
cross match the IP with the host IP and then run a makdhcp command to add
the fixed address in the lease file.
I will check the node definition(s) for the eth0/enxxxx address shortly.
This was a great help, thank you all so much!
--imam
On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 1:57 PM Russell Jones <arjone...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Look at the man pages for "makedhcp"
>
> In my experience when there is no fixed-address for a host, that means DNS
> is wrong. Make sure your DNS entries are correct for that host, and that
> the management node can resolve both the hostname and reverse DNS entries
> for the IP address.
>
> Also I noticed in your node definition you don't have a nicips.eth0/ensXXX
> - Check that.
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 12:09 PM Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, that is correct. Below is the output :
>>
>> [root@hpc3-14-03 ~]# ip a
>> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
>> default qlen 1000
>> link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>> inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> 2: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
>> default qlen 1000
>> link/ether 08:f1:ea:9e:c7:60 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>> 3: eno2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group
>> default qlen 1000
>> link/ether 08:f1:ea:9e:c7:61 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>> 4: eno3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
>> group default qlen 1000
>> link/ether 08:f1:ea:e4:35:52 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>> inet 10.240.58.16/23 brd 10.240.59.255 scope global eno3
>> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>> inet6 fe80::af1:eaff:fee4:3552/64 scope link
>> valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>>
>> ....
>>
>> What I have noticed is that dhcpd.leases file does not have an entry with
>> an "fixed address" entry like the following:
>>
>> host hpc3-gpu-16-03 {
>> dynamic;
>> hardware ethernet 20:67:7c:10:ba:86;
>> uid 20:67:7c:10:ba:86;
>> fixed-address 10.240.58.61;
>> supersede server.ddns-hostname = "hpc3-gpu-16-03";
>> supersede host-name = "hpc3-gpu-16-03";
>> if option user-class-identifier = "xNBA" and option
>> client-architecture
>> = 00:00 {
>> supersede server.filename =
>> "http://
>> ${next-server}:80/tftpboot/xcat/xnba/nodes/hpc3-gpu-16-03";
>> } elsif option client-architecture = 00:00 {
>> supersede server.filename = "xcat/xnba.kpxe";
>> } else {
>> supersede server.filename = "";
>> }
>> }
>>
>> I am assuming the lease file got messed up somehow. What are your
>> thoughts on reconstructing the file (programmatically) and using a modified
>> file? Or is there another way from within xcat to add entries in the dhcpd
>> leases file?
>>
>> thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 9:20 AM Russell Jones <arjone...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is the mac correct for the node?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 11:02 AM Imam Toufique <techie...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Need your helpful thoughts here with a problem we have, please.
>>>>
>>>> We have nodes that were provisioned with xcat, they are running, OS is
>>>> working and installed. The boot order is set to PXE first, SSD 2nd.
>>>>
>>>> Several days ago, when I rebooted one of the nodes, it went straight to
>>>> PXE discovery mode - attempting for an install. This is a node that is
>>>> built, it should have exited the PXE boot mode and boot off the disk, but
>>>> it never did.
>>>>
>>>> I am not sure what's going on, it looks like xcat has lost the status
>>>> of the node, whether it is installed or not ( need provisioning?)
>>>>
>>>> Here is the 'lsdef' output of the node:
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> [root@mn] lsdef -t node hpc3-14-03
>>>> Object name: hpc3-14-03
>>>> arch=x86_64
>>>> cpucount=40
>>>> cputype=Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
>>>> currchain=boot
>>>> currstate=boot
>>>> disksize=sda:224GB,sdb:224GB
>>>> groups=centos78
>>>> ip=10.240.58.16
>>>> mac=08:f1:ea:e4:35:52
>>>> memory=193122MB
>>>> mtm=HPE:ProLiant XL170r Gen10
>>>> netboot=xnba
>>>> nichostnamesuffixes.ib0=-ib0
>>>> nichostnamesuffixes.ipmi=-ipmi
>>>> nicips.ib0=10.240.60.16
>>>> nicips.ipmi=10.240.62.16
>>>> os=centos7.7
>>>> postbootscripts=otherpkgs,hpc3-postscripts/hpc3postbootscript
>>>>
>>>> postscripts=syslog,remoteshell,syncfiles,setupntp,hpc3-postscripts/hpc3postscript.1,confignetwork
>>>> -s
>>>> profile=compute
>>>> provmethod=centos7.8-x86_64-install-compute
>>>> serial=2M294204L9
>>>> status=booted
>>>> statustime=06-21-2021 16:41:45
>>>> supportedarchs=x86,x86_64
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> [root@mn]# nodediscoverls |grep 14-03
>>>> 38363730-3535-324D-3239-343230344C39 hpc3-14-03 manual
>>>> HPE:ProLiant XL170r Gen10 2M294204L9
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> [root@mn]# lsdef -t network compute_net_1
>>>>
>>>> Object name: compute_net_1
>>>>
>>>> domain=local
>>>>
>>>> dynamicrange=10.240.58.221-10.240.58.240
>>>>
>>>> gateway=10.240.58.1
>>>>
>>>> mask=255.255.254.0
>>>> mgtifname=eno1
>>>> mtu=1500
>>>> nameservers=10.240.58.4,8.8.8.8,128.200.192.202
>>>> net=10.240.58.0
>>>> staticrange=10.240.58.4-10.240.59.220
>>>> tftpserver=<xcatmaster>
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> Any idea what might be going on here? Why an already setup/installed
>>>> node is going back to discovery ( and wanting to be installed) mode?
>>>>
>>>> Can someone please shed some light?
>>>>
>>>> thanks a lot!
>>>>
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