XCAT_2.14.2_Release_Notes

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

• ubuntu 18.04 Basic diskful/diskless deployment with restrictions (Will be enhanced in 2.14.3)
• RHEL 6.10

Highlighted Functions

• secure root supporting

  For diskful/diskless deployment, the root password hash is included in files that can be downloaded from http server. secureroot attribute in site table provides a more secure method.

  • secure root support for diskful
  • secure root support for diskless

• xcat-inventory v0.1.4:

  xcat-inventory is a new command that xCAT team is working on to help System Administrators manage xCAT configuration data with source control by importing/exporting configuration to flat files.

  Enhancements added:

  • support #INCLUDE in pkglist, otherpkglist...
  • environment variable support for osimage object

• shared-data based xCAT MN HA

  • implement xcatha.py to setup, activate and deactivate xCAT MN

• gocons v0.3.0:

  Enhancements added:

  • enable etcd storage
  • Break sequence

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.14.2-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.14.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.14.2-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.14.2-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power System AC922	RHEL-Alt 7.5
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.5
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 18.04
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 16.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 14.04.4
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.10
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.10
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 16.04.1
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 14.04.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322

Key Issues Resolved

Issue #5365 s_client: Option unknown option -no_ssl2

Issue #5336 Unable to flash firmware on IBM OpenPower S822LC for Big Data, model 8001-12C

Issue #5306 Update xCAT Security Key to use RSA and stronger SHA-2 family hash: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, and SHA224

Issue #5294 Statelite provision hung at netbooting for rhels 6.10 in PPC64

Issue #5287 xcat 2.14 is unable to recognize centos versions

Issue #5284 kits addpkgs selects packages without respecting versions

Issue #5278 mysqlsetup -i hang when MN is using alias IP

Issue #5266 Couldn't create bin/switchprobe from non-root user

Issue #5263 Recording the Severity of log message into xCAT logs

Issue #5260 chtab try to access /etc/xcat/*.sqlite by its own, but this does not work for non-root users

Restrictions and Known Issues

Issue #5121 rspconfig failed to set bmc ip etc in some specific condition

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 #5057 This issue cannot be reproduced, and the work around is : check the bmc state using rflash <node> -l, if the target firmware state is Active(+), execute rpower <node> boot to reboot the host and let new firmware take effect.

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