XCAT_2.0.1_Release_Notes

xCAT 2.0.1 Release Notes

Bug Fixes and Ehancements

  • Fix problem where IPMI sessions were left open after rpower reset
  • Fix problem where BMC error messages were being overwritten by generic error messages
  • Add CentOS5.2 DVD media ids to anaconda plugin.
  • Fix a problem where a missing noderes table would abort certain operations uncleanly
  • Ignore multicast networks in DHCP and networks table.
  • Backup /etc/hosts before makehosts
  • ntp postscript fixes
  • Fix for stateless initrd generation failures under certain circumstances.
  • Fix System p linux mac table formatting
  • LDAP postinstall script
  • Fedora 9 stateless fixes (networking and serial console setup)
  • Fix Bladecenter AMM eventlog retrieval to retrieve more than 32 items
  • Fix for system resource consumption issue with a discovery plugin crash.
  • Fix discovery of JS-22 systems with BPET42D and later firmware AMM revisions.
  • Fix templates with some incorrectly formatted comments that could cause nodeset failures
  • Fix stateless RHEL5 to allow image server to be specified by name as well as IP
  • Fix a number of documentation issues
  • Allow nodegroups in site.dhcpinterfaces as interface criteria
  • iDataplex thermal profile manipulation support via rspconfig
  • Fix stateless management to not eliminate an existing etc/shadow file
  • Fix some SLES path issues in mknb and makedns.
  • Fix init script for RHEL4 and SLES10
  • Update xCAT discovery environment (QS22 discovery support)
  • Init script fixes for various services and RHEL4 and SLES10
  • atftp patches to implement unicast block rollover for large files (recent AMM firmware sizes through tftp).
  • atftp patches to translate '\' to '/' and check for per-node BCD files (not used by xCAT today)
  • Fix a character truncation issue in atftp PCRE support, unused by xCAT
  • Added "-f" flag to getmacs (force LPAR shutdown)
  • Removed "rspconfig build" - MPA specific
  • Correct "rinv" usage for PPC
  • Changed "deps" table to support multiple keys (node, cmd)
  • Corrected ppchcp table "hcp" description
  • Strip colons from mac address before sending - rnetboot (PPC specific).
  • Call xCAT::Usage from getmacs instead of doing usage with PPCmac.pm module
  • Updated getmacs usage (removed -c flag)
  • Seperated mac address returned from getmacs with colons - Linux only (PPC specific).
  • Remove -c (colon-seperated output) from lpar_netboot() function
  • Fix problem not writing "first" mac in writemac() with -w specified (PPC specific).
  • Added IO-Stty-02.tar.gz to perl-IO-Stty

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