xCAT Installation

1.1         Downloading xCAT

 mkdir -p /tools/software/sources/xcat

export XCAT_SOURCE_DIR=/tools/software/sources/xcat

cd ${XCAT_SOURCE_DIR}

wget https://hpc.lenovo.com/downloads/17e/xcat-2.13.7.lenovo2_confluent-1.7.2_lenovo-confluent-0.7.1-el7.tar.bz2

tar xfj xcat-2.13.7.lenovo2_confluent-1.7.2_lenovo-confluent-0.7.1-el7.tar.bz2

 

1.2         Installing xCAT

The following procedure can be followed to install xCAT

cd ${XCAT_SOURCE_DIR}/lenovo-hpc-el7

./mklocalrepo.sh

yum –y install xCAT

Note: Make sure the OS repositories are accessible by YUM (either online repos or local)

Verify xCAT installation.

source /etc/profile.d/xcat.sh

tabdump site

If installation is successful, the above command will return similar outputs as it’s listed below.

#key,value,comments,disable

"domain","cluster.local",,

"blademaxp","64",,

"fsptimeout","0",,

"installdir","/install",,

"ipmimaxp","64",,

"ipmiretries","3",,

"ipmitimeout","2",,

"consoleondemand","no",,

"master","10.0.0.11",,

"forwarders","10.125.30.25,10.125.30.51,10.98.48.39",,

"nameservers","10.0.0.11",,

"maxssh","8",,

"ppcmaxp","64",,

"ppcretry","3",,

"ppctimeout","0",,

"powerinterval","0",,

"syspowerinterval","0",,

"sharedtftp","1",,

"SNsyncfiledir","/var/xcat/syncfiles",,

"nodesyncfiledir","/var/xcat/node/syncfiles",,

"tftpdir","/tftpboot",,

"xcatdport","3001",,

"xcatiport","3002",,

"xcatconfdir","/etc/xcat",,

"timezone","Europe/London",,

"useNmapfromMN","no",,

"enableASMI","no",,

"db2installloc","/mntdb2",,

"databaseloc","/var/lib",,

"sshbetweennodes","ALLGROUPS",,

"dnshandler","ddns",,

"vsftp","n",,

"cleanupxcatpost","no",,

"dhcplease","43200",,

"auditnosyslog","0",,

"xcatsslversion","TLSv1",,

"auditskipcmds","ALL",,

  

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