XCAT_2.9.3_Release_Notes - xcat2/xcat-core GitHub Wiki

xCAT 2.9.3 is ONLY released for AIX

New Functions and Changes in Behavior

  • New Operating System Support

    • AIX 7.2.0, AIX 7.1.4.1

      Diskfull Install

      Verified updatenode command

      Verified syncfile mechanism

  • New Features

    • Support the new format 'file -> (noderange for permitted nodes) file' in synclist file for file syncing. With this feature you can specify which nodes this entry applies for.

Test Environment

###xCAT core packages tar ball:

###xCAT dependency package verified with this xCAT release:

The following xCAT dependency packages were built against AIX 7.2

  • perl-DBD-SQLite ver 1.48
  • perl-DBI ver 1.634
  • perl-Debug-Trace ver 0.05
  • perl-Digest-HMAC ver 1.03
  • perl-Digest-MD5 ver 2.54
  • perl-Digest-SHA ver 5.95
  • perl-Digest-SHA1 ver 2.13
  • perl-Socket-SSL ver 1.38
  • perl-IO-Tty ver 1.12
  • perl-Net-DNS ver 1.04
  • perl-Net-IP ver 1.26
  • perl-Net-Telnet ver 3.04
  • perl-XML-Simple ver 2.22
  • net-snmp ver 5.7.3
  • cURL ver 7.46.0

Only SQLite is supported on AIX 7.2. MySQL and PostgreSQL is not supported on AIX 7.2.

Operating Systems which have been verified:

AIX6.1 TL8 SP6
AIX6.1 TL9 SP5
AIX7.1 TL4 SP1
AIX7.2

Hardware Platform which have been verified:

POWER 7
POWER8 BE (HMC version: V8R8.3.0)

Issues Fixed

The following key Issues are resolved for this release and highlighted below:

  • Issue #573: xcatd displays error message when performing restart. Restart of xcatd causes core dump on AIX.

  • Issue #569: Update of xCAT will overwrite values in site.xcatsslversion.

Full list of Resolved Issues

Restrictions and Known Problems

  • Issue #691: xCAT migration from 2.9.2 on aix71R to 2.9.3 on aix720 failed

    When updating both xCAT 2.9.2 => xCAT 2.9.3 and AIX 7.1 => AIX 7.2, use the following procedure as a reference:

    1. Update AIX 7.1 to AIX 7.2 first

    2. Remove the incorrect rpm packages installed for AIX 7.1

      rpm -e perl-Expect-1.21-3 perl-Digest-SHA-5.48-3 \
perl-IO-Stty-0.03-2 net-snmp-5.7.2-3 \
net-snmp-devel-5.7.2-3 net-snmp-perl-5.7.2-3 \ 
perl-version-0.82-2 perl-Crypt-SSLeay

    3. Install xCAT dependency packages

      ./instoss

    4. If you get the message ln: 0653-421 /lib/libperl.a exists. Specify -f to remove /lib/libperl.a before linking. during the update of xcat-dep, remove the sybolic link /lib/libperl.a.

      rm /lib/libperl.a

    5. Install xCAT

      ./instxcat