XCAT_2.13.10_Release_Notes

2.13.10 Release Notes

Features

Highlighted Functions

• goconserver to provide remote access to system consoles

  • enhancement to support hierarchy
  • enhancement of redirecting console log to configured host/port

• OpenBMC support

  • rspconfig powersupplyredundancy,PowerRestorePolicy,bootmode

  • revenglog resolved=LED

  • new prototype to call OpenBMC RESTful interface parallely(Alpha)

    • rpower for openbmc

    • new OpenBMC python version rpm installation steps:

      • Use yum install gcc and python-devel.ppc64le:

        yum install -y gcc python-devel.ppc64le 
        

      • Install pip refer to https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/. Use pip to install gevent, greenlet, certifi, chardet, idna, urllib3, requests:

        pip install gevent greenlet certifi chardet idna urllib3 requests paramiko scp
        

      • Download and install xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm:

        wget http://xcat.org/files/xcat/xcat-dep/2.x_Linux/beta/xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
        yum localinstall -y xCAT-openbmc-py-2.13.10-snap201801250418.noarch.rpm
        

      • enable OpenBMC python version:

        export XCAT_OPENBMC_PYTHON=YES
        rpower cn1 status
        

• PDU support

  • rvitals, rinv for iPDU
  • PDU support document

• Adding 'postbooting' status when deploy nodes, reference node status enhancement document for more information

• For hardware discovery

  • rebuild xCAT-genesis-base to include all drivers installed on the host for ppc64(Fedora 26) and x86_64(centos7)

xCAT Documentation

xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.10-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.10-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.10-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.10-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power System AC922	RHEL 7.4 for Power Little Endian (POWER9)
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.4
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 14.04.4
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 16.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322
IBM Power 750	RHEL 7.4
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.9
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.9
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 14.04.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 16.04.1
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322

Key Issues Resolved

Issue #4629 For sites that would like to forward to their own DNS servers, the site table includes the 'forwarders' attribute to allow for this. If the site internal DNS resolves RFC1918 addresses, xCAT dns doesn't work.

Issue #4575 lskmodules cannot list the kernel modules

Issue #4550 rflash unattended quits early before activation is complete

Issue #4538 confignetwork fails when BMC interfaces are defined in the 'nics' table

Issue #4511 "rflash -d" did not support relative paths

Issue #4735 enhance Installing a New Kernel in the Diskless Image doc

PR #4727 Do not comment out rsyslog /var/log/messages on MN

Restrictions and Known Issues

Issue #3513 For the latest xCAT-genesis-base, the mlx4_en driver 2.2-1 (Feb 2014) is included, it can not support Mellanox Ethernet NIC that need driver newer than 2.2-1, for more information, please reference build genesis locally with latest RH MN

Issue #3284 While selinux on KVM host was reconfigured from enforcing to disabled, rpower failed to power previous created KVM guest on

PR #4727 After you upgrade xCAT from former version, need to modify /etc/rsyslog.conf to make the logs to /var/log/messages again