xCAT

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: 2.0.1

Notes:
xCAT 2.0.1 is a bugfix and minor function enhancement release.

Changes:
*  Fix problem where IPMI sessions were left open after  rpower reset
* Fix problem where BMC error messages were being overwritten by generic error messages
* Add CentOS5.2 DVD media ids to anaconda plugin.
* Fix a problem where a missing noderes table would abort certain operations uncleanly
* Ignore multicast networks in DHCP and networks table.
* Backup /etc/hosts before makehosts
* ntp postscript fixes
* Fix for stateless initrd generation failures under certain circumstances.
* Fix System p linux mac table formatting
* LDAP postinstall script
* Fedora 9 stateless fixes (networking and serial console setup)
* Fix Bladecenter AMM eventlog retrieval to retrieve more than 32 items
* Fix for system resource consumption issue with a discovery plugin crash.
* Fix discovery of JS-22 systems with BPET42D and later firmware AMM revisions.
* Fix templates with some incorrectly formatted comments that could cause nodeset failures
* Fix stateless RHEL5 to allow image server to be specified by name as well as IP
* Fix a number of documentation issues
* Allow nodegroups in site.dhcpinterfaces as interface criteria
* iDataplex thermal profile manipulation support via rspconfig
* Fix stateless management to not eliminate an existing etc/shadow file
* Fix some SLES path issues in mknb and makedns.
* Fix init script for RHEL4 and SLES10
* Update xCAT discovery environment (QS22 discovery support)
* Init script fixes for various services and RHEL4 and SLES10
* atftp patches to implement unicast block rollover for large files (recent AMM firmware sizes through tftp).
* atftp patches to translate '\' to '/' and check for per-node BCD files (not used by xCAT today)
* Fix a character truncation issue in atftp PCRE support, unused by xCAT
* Added "-f" flag to getmacs (force LPAR shutdown)
* Removed "rspconfig build" - MPA specific
* Correct "rinv" usage for PPC
* Changed "deps" table to support multiple keys (node, cmd)
* Corrected ppchcp table "hcp" description
* Strip colons from mac address before sending - rnetboot (PPC specific).
* Call xCAT::Usage from getmacs instead of doing usage with PPCmac.pm module
* Updated getmacs usage (removed -c flag)
* Seperated mac address returned from getmacs with colons - Linux only (PPC specific).
* Remove -c (colon-seperated output) from lpar_netboot() function
* Fix problem not writing "first" mac in writemac() with -w specified (PPC specific).