[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
>
> --- El *mié 8-oct-08, xcat-user-request at lists.xcat.org
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> Asunto: xcat-user Digest, Vol 45, Issue 23
> A: xcat-user at lists.xcat.org
> Fecha: miércoles, 8 octubre, 2008, 10:59 am
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> 1. Re:Re:Re: [xcat-user] Fail to start xCATd on sles10 GA. (Ling Gao)
> 2. AUTO: Gilad Berman is out of the office. (returning
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> 3. Re: Newbie going through the xCAT Linux Cookbook
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 10:03:02 -0400
> From: Ling Gao <linggao at us.ibm.com>
> Subject: Re:Re:Re: [xcat-user] Fail to start xCATd on sles10 GA.
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> From: Gilad Berman <GILADB at il.ibm.com>
> Subject: [xcat-user] AUTO: Gilad Berman is out of the office.
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> I am out of the office until 13/10/2008.
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> I will have no access to my mail.
> I will respond to your message when I return.
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> Note: This is an automated response to your message "?RE: [xcat-user]
> xCAT2.1 + stateless + GPFS: an idea" sent on 8/10/08 0:33:48.
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> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 08:56:54 -0700
> From: "Vallard Benincosa" <vallard at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Newbie going through the xCAT Linux Cookbook
> To: "xCAT Users Mailing list" <xcat-user at lists.xcat.org>
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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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