[xcat-user] latest xCAT 2.1 for AIX snapshot available

[Norman Nott]

Greetings,

The latest pre-release snapshot of xCAT 2.1 for AIX is now available to
download from:
http://xcat.sourceforge.net/aix/download.html

The xCAT support for AIX now includes the following.

      Deploying AIX diskless and standalone nodes.
      Automation of AIX NIM setup.
      Support for AIX 5.3 and higher releases.
      Operating system image management.
      Support for user-provided customization scripts.
      Hardware control commands for discovering hardware, gathering MAC
      addresses, VPD, and environmentals, power control, initiating a
      network boot, and LPAR creation/deletion.
      Support for POWER 5 and POWER 6 hardware.
      Remote console support.
      Parallel remote shell and remote copy commands.
      Monitoring plug-in infrastructure
      RMC monitoring plug-in.
      Notification infrastructure which lets users monitor xCAT database
      table changes.
      Predefined conditions, responses and sensors.
      Automatic setup for syslog, remote shell, and ntp for both the xCAT
      management node and the cluster nodes.
      xCAT cluster data stored in a relational database.
      Commands to manipulate the xCAT database tables directly.
      Commands to manage xCAT data object definitions.
      Documentation and “man” pages.



Norman Nott
AIX & Linux Cluster Development - xCAT
2455 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601-5400
Phone: (845) 433-7697 / 293-7697 (Tie-Line)
nott at us.ibm.com
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