Monitor_Installation

Monitor installation

It is possible to use the wcons command to watch the installation process for a sampling of the nodes:

wcons n1,n20,n80,n100

or rcons to watch one node

rcons n1

Additionally, nodestat may be used to check the status of a node as it installs:

nodestat n20,n21
n20: installing man-pages - 2.39-10.el5 (0%)
n21: installing prep

Note: the percentage complete reported by nodestat is not necessarily reliable.

You can also watch nodelist.status until it changes to "booted" for each node:

nodels compute nodelist.status | xcoll

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):

xdsh compute date

If there are problems, see [Debugging_xCAT_Problems].