nodestat -f runs fping to reach the nodes; if the fping package is not
installed the pipe yielded no output and nodestat silently returned an empty
result. Check that an fping binary exists before running it and emit an
explicit "must install fping" error otherwise.
Recovered from the unmerged lenovobuild branch (original f0c88182), reworked
to test for the binary directly: the original inferred fping's presence from
whether the pipe produced output, which false-positived (reporting fping
missing) when fping was present but every node was unresolvable -- caught in
lab validation.
Co-authored-by: Jarrod Johnson <10814490+jjohnson42@users.noreply.github.com>
build_xmldesc only recognised cpumodel "ppc64" (big-endian) when deciding to set
<os type arch='ppc64' machine='pseries'>, but ppc64le hosts report cpumodel
"ppc64le" (virNodeGetInfo model). A guest on a ppc64le hypervisor was therefore
emitted as an x86-style domain -- no machine type and with pae/acpi/apic -- and
libvirt rejected it: "machine type 'pseries-*' does not support ACPI".
Recognise "ppc64le" alongside "ppc64" for the arch/machine block, and omit the
x86-only pae/acpi/apic features on both. Little- and big-endian pseries guests
both use libvirt <os> arch "ppc64".
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
The Ubuntu live-server ISO copycds imports is not a complete apt pool, so
both Ubuntu install paths fail without an external mirror: the netboot
genimage's debootstrap from the ISO-only pkgdir cannot resolve packages,
and the Subiquity diskful install (Template.pm) fell back to the airgapped
file:///cdrom config. Default site.ubuntu_apt_mirror to
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu when unset (overridable for local/geo/
ports mirrors). In the Ubuntu genimage, when pkgdir has no http mirror,
build the debootstrap source and chroot sources.list from that mirror with
the codename derived from osvers and the release/-updates/-security pockets
(main + universe) -- the compute pkglist needs universe (busybox-static,
dracut*) and the security-updated openssh. Ubuntu-only; EL netboot
(netboot/rh) and copycds/packimage are untouched.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
The Ubuntu live-server install media is not a complete apt package mirror.
With the generated apt configuration pinned to the media only, an install that
needs a package absent from the media stalls instead of fetching it. Emit an
online-mirror apt configuration when one is configured (site.ubuntu_apt_mirror)
so missing packages are retrieved from the archive; offline behaviour is
unchanged when it is unset.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hilst <392820+dhilst@users.noreply.github.com>
When all addkcmdline options have R:: prefix (persistent options for
the installed OS), the volatile check in xnba.pm and pxe.pm would fail
because volatile was undefined. This left the original R::-prefixed
string in the netboot config instead of stripping it.
The fix ensures we always use the volatile portion after calling
splitkcmdline, even if it's empty. Persistent (R::) options are
handled separately by Template.pm via PERSKCMDLINE for the installed
OS bootloader.
Fixes#7442
The activenics{"!remote!"} hash key is checked at line 1940 but never
set by any code path — neither the dhcpinterfaces parsing nor the
querynics discovery populates it. This causes the guard to always
evaluate true, hitting next and silently skipping every !remote!
network when dhcpinterfaces is defined in the site table or on a
service node.
Remove the dead check so remote networks are processed correctly.
The inner activenics{$netif} check (which uses the actual interface
name after stripping the !remote! prefix) is the correct guard and
is preserved.
Original analysis by lebonez in xcat2/xcat-core#7242.
Co-authored-by: Lebonez <25910791+lebonez@users.noreply.github.com>
Add a shared OMAPI policy helper for ISC DHCP and DDNS so administrators can select the key name, signing algorithm, and omshell path from the site table while preserving the existing xcat_key hmac-md5 default.
Keep local ISC updates from hanging indefinitely when omshell does not exit, and use a static host-declaration fallback for local Ubuntu ISC releases where omshell is unstable for xCAT host updates.
Co-authored-by: gskouson <1507929+gskouson@users.noreply.github.com>
OpenBMC BMCs intermittently return 503 Service Unavailable when the
REST service is busy or recovering. xCAT reported the error immediately,
requiring the user to manually retry. A second attempt usually succeeds.
Retry the same request up to 3 times with a 3-second wait on 503.
If all retries fail, report the error as before. The existing 504
handling for bmcreboot is preserved.
Ref: #4264
Extend the existing sha256-to-sha1 fallback (already present in
got_rmcp_response for Open Session errors) to also cover RAKP2
rejections with "Unauthorized name" (0x0d) or "Invalid role" (0x09).
Ref: #7511
Set bit 4 (0x10) of the requested privilege byte in RAKP Message 1
for name-only user lookup, matching ipmitool behavior. Use the same
value consistently in all HMAC calculations (RAKP2 verification,
RAKP3 auth code, SIK derivation).
Without this, some BMCs fail user lookup with "Unauthorized name"
even though the credentials are correct.
Ref: #7511
OpenBMC-based BMCs return message tag 0 in RAKP2/RAKP4 instead of
echoing the tag from the request. xCAT rejected these as stale
responses and retried indefinitely until timeout.
Accept tag 0 but verify the remote console session ID in the response
matches our current sidm. This prevents stale retries from corrupting
session state while allowing OpenBMC responses through.
Applied to got_rmcp_response, got_rakp2, and got_rakp4.
Ref: #7511
cbc_pad in decrypt mode reads the last byte as the pad count, then
calls splice(@block, 0 - $count). If decrypted data is corrupt, the
pad count can exceed the array size, crashing with "Modification of
non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -16".
Return empty string on invalid padding so the caller treats it as a
decryption failure rather than accepting corrupted data as a valid
IPMI response.
Ref: #7511
Previously, makedhcp warned but still created host entries without
a static IP reservation when a node's address fell inside the
dynamic range. The node would silently get a random IP from the
pool instead of its configured address.
Now errors and skips the node on all four DHCP paths (ISC v4/v6,
Kea v4/v6) with a clear message telling the admin to move the IP
outside the range or adjust the dynamic range.
This makes ISC DHCP and Kea behavior consistent and aligns with
xCAT's design: the dynamic range is for hardware discovery,
known nodes should have static IPs outside it.
Closes#6539
The quiet kernel parameter was hardcoded in anaconda.pm and sles.pm,
making it impossible for admins to get verbose boot output without
editing plugin source code. The existing addkcmdline mechanism
(bootparams and linuximage tables) only appends to the kernel command
line, so there was no way to remove quiet.
Move quiet out of the plugin kcmdline construction and into the
linuximage.addkcmdline default set during copycds osimage creation.
Admins who want verbose boot for debugging can now remove it per
osimage:
chdef -t osimage <image> addkcmdline=""
New osimages get addkcmdline="quiet" by default. Existing osimages
with a custom addkcmdline are not overwritten on re-run of copycds.
Genesis/discovery boot (mknb.pm) is unchanged as it does not use
osimage definitions.
Addresses #6916
Template.pm silently continued rendering kickstart templates when
getipaddr() failed to resolve the master hostname, producing
kickstarts with an empty MASTER_IP. Nodes would install successfully
but fail on first reboot when post.xcat and xcatinstallpost tried
to contact the master, timing out after 90 retries with:
the network between the node and is not ready
Postage.pm (mypostscript generation) already checks for this and
returns a clear error. Apply the same pattern in Template.pm so
nodeset fails immediately with a descriptive message instead of
producing a broken kickstart.
Fixes#7544
On some BMCs (notably Supermicro), a GET immediately after SET
returns the old value until the BMC applies the change. This made
rspconfig output misleading for network setting operations.
- Store the canonical SET value after normalization and compare
with the GET readback for ip, netmask, gateway, and backupgateway.
When they differ, annotate the output:
"BMC Gateway: 10.20.0.1 (requested 10.20.0.254, not yet reflected)"
- Consolidate ip/netmask/gateway/backupgateway display into one block
- Fix backupgateway SET: was routed through the gateway branch
writing parameter 0x0C instead of 0x0E. Now has its own branch
writing the correct IPMI parameter.
- ip=dhcp is unaffected (separate code path, never stores a value)
Tested on Supermicro IPMI BMC (10.20.0.51).
Fixes#3445
Docker container lifecycle management (mgt=docker, mkdocker, rmdocker,
lsdocker) was added in 2015-2016 as an experiment targeting Docker API
v1.22 on Ubuntu only. Documentation and man pages were deliberately
removed in 2019 (PRs #6222 and #6324) with the original developer's
approval, noting that "the interface of Docker has become very simple
right now, so there is no value for xCAT to offer such functions."
The plugin was still being shipped but has had no functional code changes
since April 2016, was never listed as a valid mgt value in Schema.pm,
and no user ever filed an issue about it.
Removed:
- xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/docker.pm (1,142 lines)
- xCAT/postscripts/setupdockerhost
- xCAT-server/share/xcat/scripts/setup-dockerhost-cert.sh
- xCAT-test/autotest/testcase/dockercommand/ (test cases)
- Docker attribute definitions in Schema.pm
- Client symlinks (mkdocker, rmdocker, lsdocker)
- Usage entries and dockerhost cert handling in credentials.pm
- Docker attribute documentation in man7 pages
The "Running xCAT in Docker" documentation (dockerized_xcat/) is
retained as it documents containerizing xCAT itself, not the removed
mgt=docker feature.
Closes#7518
Vinícius Ferrão
Daniel Hilst
Vinícius Ferrão
Markus Hilger