[xcat-user] Re: xcat-user Digest, Vol 45, Issue 23

Torsten torsten at bloth.net
Thu Oct 9 05:43:33 MDT 2008


Please post the output of 'lsdef node001'

Thanks

OSCAR ROMERO schrieb:
> Hi when I type this command
> 
> makeconservercf && service conserver start
> 
> 
> I get the next error:
> 
> Starting conserver: [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): conserver.com version 8.1.16
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): started as `root' by `root'
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): ERROR: invalid token ';' [/etc/conserver.cf:134]
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): ERROR: invalid token ';' [/etc/conserver.cf:135]
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): ERROR: [node001] console type unknown [/etc/conserver.cf:135]
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): ERROR: no consoles found in configuration file
> [Wed Oct  8 20:39:21 2008] conserver (5176): terminated
>                                                            [FAILED]
> 
> 
> service conserver status
> 
> conserver dead but subsys locked
> 
> XCAT2
> 
> Do you know how can I solve this???
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
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>     Asunto: xcat-user Digest, Vol 45, Issue 23
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>     From: "Vallard Benincosa" <vallard at gmail.com>
>     Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Newbie going through the xCAT Linux Cookbook
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>     Try reading this entry in the wiki:
>     http://xcat.wiki.sourceforge.net/Quick+Install+Tutorial
> 
>     It covers moving from
>      xCAT 1.3 to xCAT 2, but still may be useful.
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Lissa Valletta <lissav at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>     >
>     > Thanks for using the Cookbook and sending the comments. You certainly are
>     > not overly aggressive.   Since the developers are writing the
>     documentation,
>     >  I am sure it suffers from us knowing too much about the code and we are
>     > certainly not professional writers.   We appreciate the comments.
>     >
>     > So I will attempt to answer what I can below, and we will continue to try
>     > and improve the docs.
>     >
>     > 0)  I will improve the example.  You should put the address of  the
>     > management node, compute nodes, service nodes, bmc,mm,etc  in the
>     > /etc/hosts, anything that need name resolution.  In our example,  we are
>     > using the management node as the name server, and makedns is going to need
>     > this information.
>     > 1)  I agree,  we
>      have found setting up the networks table is one of the
>     > most difficult jobs and it is difficult to describe because networks vary
>     > for each project.
>     > 2)  This is just an example of how to set the disable attribute on a table
>     > entry,  to have xCAT ignore that table entry.
>     > 3)   Moved the call to makedhcp under the Setup DHCP section,  I will also
>     > get a few more words on the processing of makedhcp.  It does use the
>     > networks table and the dhcpinterfaces attribute in the site table to
>     > determine setup.
>     > 4). The setting of the dhcpinterfaces attribute,  limits what nic will be
>     > setup for each node or nodegroup defined for dhcp, I will add more
>     > explanation.
>     >   The example given
>     >    chtab key=dhcpinterfaces site.value='mn20|eth4;service|eth1' 
>     means only
>     > eth4 will be setup for mn20 and only eth1 will be setup for all nodes in
>     the
>     > service node
>      group. Note: only the management node (mn20), is not defined
>     in
>     > the database.  All other settings should be for defined nodes or groups.
>     >
>     > Lissa K. Valletta
>     > 414/3-8
>     > Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
>     > (tie 293) 433-3102
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >  *Stefán Freyr Stefánsson <stefan at ru.is>*
>     > Sent by: xcat-user-bounces at lists.xcat.org
>     >
>     > 10/07/2008 03:59 PM
>     >  Please respond to
>     > xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user at lists.xcat.org>
>     >
>     >   To
>     > xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user at lists.xcat.org>  cc
>     >   Subject
>     > [xcat-user] Newbie going through the xCAT Linux Cookbook
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > Hi.
>     >
>     > I'm following the instructions in the Linux Cookbook to set up xCAT
>     and I'm
>     >
>     > stumbling a bit here.
>     >
>     > I was going to ask a specific question about one problem I'm having
>     but
>      let
>     > me
>     > instead try to explain what I think could be presented clearer in that
>     > manual.
>     >
>     > First, let me be clear that I'm setting up a simple cluster. One
>     management
>     >
>     > node and 10 "worker" nodes. So I don't have service nodes
>     and thus I
>     > haven't
>     > gone through Chapter 3.
>     >
>     > 0) Chapter 2.1.8 could benefit from a bit more explanations. After asking
>     > in
>     > the xcat IRC channel I found out that in my case I should put the names of
>     > all my worker nodes in there. I also gather that I should have lines in
>     > there
>     > for all the NICs in the management node so what I have is:
>     > 192.168.21.40   blue-midget.cs.ru.is
>     > 10.0.0.254      bmbfront
>     > 10.0.1.254      bmgfront
>     > 10.0.0.1        bmb001
>     > 10.0.1.1        bmg001
>     > 10.0.0.2        bmb002
>     > 10.0.1.2        bmg002
>     > ...
>     > Explaining a bit about the
>      ability of having multiple cluster facing NICs
>     > and
>     > how definitions for the worker nodes will be added to the hosts file later
>     > (I
>     > see this is done in chapter 4.4) might put some minds at ease.
>     >
>     > 1) In chapter 4.1 I think the reader would benefit from getting an
>     > explanation
>     > about what all the options mean. Just a few words about the obvious ones,
>     > but
>     > more detailed about the not so obvious ones.
>     > For example, I'm a little confused as to whether specifying the
>     gateway is
>     > necessary for cluster facing networks that should not have outside access.
>     > I
>     > started off setting the gateway to the IP of my management nodes public
>     > interface exactly like it's done in the example but when I ran
>     "makedhcp
>     > -n"
>     > later, I got the error: "Error: Specified gateway 192.168.21.40 is
>     not
>     > valid
>     > for 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.0, must
>      be on same network" and I don't
>     really
>     > know
>     > what I need to do to fix that? Later I figured out that I don't want
>     the
>     > service nodes to have access outside the cluster at all... does that mean
>     > that I should skip the gateway from the chtab command all together or
>     > should
>     > I explicitly set it to be empty?
>     >
>     > 2) Again in chapter 4.1. "Disable the entry for the public network
>     > (connected
>     > to the outside world)", what exactly will that do? Will it turn off
>     the
>     > network completely or just make xCAT ignore it? This is something that
>     > could
>     > be explained probably by as little as a single sentence in the text
>     > directly
>     > after the chapter title. I assume it only means that it will tell xCAT not
>     > to
>     > mess with it.
>     >
>     > 3) Still in chapter 4.1. "Add the relevant networks to DHCP:".
>     Here I have
>     > two
>     > questions /
>      suggestions:
>     > a) Explain in a few words what makedhcp does (I'm guessing it uses the
>     > networks table and configures the DHCP server accordingly).
>     > b) When I run the "makedhcp -n" command I got the error I
>     mentioned above
>     > until I removed the gateway definition but I also get this warning:
>     > "Warning:
>     > No dynamic range specified for 192.168.0.0, unknown systems on this
>     > network
>     > will not receive an address". Well... since I added some line that
>     was
>     > supposed to disable the 192.168.21.40 network before, I find this kindof
>     > strange. Is it normal to get this warning? Will there be a DHCP server
>     > running on this interface (there shouldn't be)?
>     >
>     > 4) Ok, so now I'm off to 4.2. Here I see that I'm supposed to
>     define the
>     > interfaces that DHCP will listen on. A quick note explaining that this
>     will
>     >
>     > be done here might be helpful somewhere in
>      4.1, maybe as an explanation to
>     > the warning I got?
>     > But here I'm still a bit confused. The example given explains
>     what's
>     > happening
>     > in the example but doesn't explain the syntax of the site.value
>     string. It
>     > doesn't tell me where I can find documentation about the syntax
>     either. The
>     >
>     > things that I'm unsure of here are: a) The "service|eth1"...
>     where does
>     > that
>     > come from? Should I use "service" too for my setup? Is that a
>     placeholder
>     > for "any dhcp client on that network" or is that the hostname of
>     the
>     > client?
>     > I can't imagine it being a single hostname because then I'd need
>     to do this
>     >
>     > for all the DHCP clients which would sort of negate the benefit of DHCP.
>     > The "mn20" name should be self explanatory if chapter 2.1.8 is
>     made a bit
>     > more explicit (as per point 0). How should my site.value string look
>      when
>     I
>     >
>     > have two cluster facing network (10.0.0.0 and 10.0.1.0), only one
>     > management
>     > node and no service nodes but I want my worker nodes to get DHCP assigned
>     > IP
>     > addresses from my management node?
>     >
>     > Ok, I'll leave it at this for now as I haven't gotten further in
>     the setup
>     > yet.
>     >
>     > I hope I'm not coming across as overly aggressive here, I really like
>     the
>     > xCAT
>     > Linux Cookbook but there are these minor things that could be made better
>     > (in
>     > my opinion) and since this is sort of the "quickstart"
>     installation guide I
>     >
>     > think it needs to assume that people reading it have no experience with
>     > xCAT
>     > (and, like me, even somewhat limited knowlege of networking setup).
>     >
>     > I would have made the appropriate changes to the document myself if I knew
>     > the
>     > answers to the questions I'm asking
>      here :-)
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Stefan Freyr.
>     >
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