https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Monitor_Installation/Recent changes to Monitor_InstallationenMon, 23 Jun 2014 15:54:13 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Monitor_Installation/<div class="markdown_content"><h3 id="monitor-installation"><strong>Monitor installation</strong></h3> <p>It is possible to use the wcons command to watch the installation process for a sampling of the nodes: </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">wcons</span> <span class="n">n1</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n20</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n80</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n100</span> </pre></div> <p>or rcons to watch one node </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">rcons</span> <span class="n">n1</span> </pre></div> <p>Additionally, nodestat may be used to check the status of a node as it installs: </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">nodestat</span> <span class="n">n20</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">n21</span> <span class="nl">n20:</span> <span class="n">installing</span> <span class="n">man</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">pages</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="mf">2.39</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mf">10.</span><span class="n">el5</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">%</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="nl">n21:</span> <span class="n">installing</span> <span class="n">prep</span> </pre></div> <p>Note: the percentage complete reported by nodestat is not necessarily reliable. </p> <p>You can also watch nodelist.status until it changes to "booted" for each node: </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">nodels</span> <span class="n">compute</span> <span class="n">nodelist</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">status</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="n">xcoll</span> </pre></div> <p>Once all of the nodes are installed and booted, you should be able ssh to all of them from the MN (w/o a password), because xCAT should have automatically set up the ssh keys (if the postscripts ran successfully): </p> <div class="codehilite"><pre><span class="n">xdsh</span> <span class="n">compute</span> <span class="n">date</span> </pre></div> <p>If there are problems, see <a class="alink" href="/p/xcat/newwiki/Debugging_xCAT_Problems/">[Debugging_xCAT_Problems]</a>. </p></div>Lissa VallettaMon, 23 Jun 2014 15:54:13 -0000https://sourceforge.neta5a09275b3c96a79c0de634314a1088cf1e660b4