[xcat-user] BladeCenter not powering on or wcon

[egan at sense.n. (E. Ford)]

wcons is only for serial-based consoles.  BC does not have that yet.  So use
wvid.

Also for mac address collection with BC use mpcli2 as the method in nodehm.tab.
Then you can collect macs without stage2.  It will pull the MACs from the
management module.

This is assuming that you are using -pre4.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wise, Jeremey [mailto:jer...@ag...] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 6:13 AM
> To: 'xca...@li...'
> Subject: [xcat-user] BladeCenter not powering on or wcon 
> Importance: High
> 
> 
> I know it is something stupid. I am sure it an error in my 
> tab files. This
> is my first solo cluster (and that with two bladecenters:>) I have one
> management node x345. All the switch communication is working 
> fine as I have
> build a couple nodes by hand and they communicate as expected. 
> 
> The first thing is that I am stuck where you start gathering 
> the MACs to
> populate the /etc/dhcpd.conf file (note: there is an error 
> with the makedhcp
> utility in that it does not add the necessary references to 
> for ddns to
> start the service "ddns-update-style none;") I assume based on the
> http://www.xcat.org/docs/xcat-HOWTO.html (sec 18.3) that I 
> have to manually
> power on the blades the first time to PXE and start 
> announcing the MACs. I
> tried this but it does not receive any image. No boot device 
> found is the
> error. Nothing in /var/log/messages of note outside of the 
> nodes trying to
> get a lease 
> ....
> "Jan 21 16:18:53 master dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 
> 00:09:6b:b5:90:fe via eth1
> Jan 21 16:18:53 master dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 10.162.90.200 to
> 00:09:6b:b5:90:fe via eth1"
> ...
> 
> 
> The second issue is the error "console: connect: 
> 782@localhost: Connection
> refused" when doing wcons on any node(s). I think it is in 
> the fact that my
> conserver.cf file is not setup correctly. I thought (based on 
> my reading)
> that both conserver.cf and conserver.tab were only needed when using
> terminal servers but I believe this is where that error lies. 
> 
> /opt/xcat/*.tab files below:
> 
> Thanks in advanced for any and all responses.
> 
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> Jeremey Wise (440)-519-6006
> Systems Consultant(CNE,MCSE,CSE)
> Agilysys, Inc.
> Jeremey.Wise@Agilysys.com
> 
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