XCAT_2.13.4_Release_Notes

Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior

Features

Operating System Support

• RHV 4.1 (ppc64le) Diskful OS deployment

Highlighted Functions

• OpenBMC support (Alpha level code)

  • rinv
  • bmcdiscover
  • rinstall

• WSP EUH support

  • PGS Alpha1 diskless and diskful OS deployment

xCAT Documentation

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

Download xCAT

• xcat-core

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.13.4-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.13.4-ubuntu.tar.bz2

• xcat-dep

  • RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.13.4-linux.tar.bz2
  • Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.13.4-ubuntu.tar.bz2

Test Environment

Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:

Hardware Platform	Operation System
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	RHEL 7.3
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 14.04.4
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	Ubuntu 16.04.1
IBM Power S822LC for HPC	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322
IBM Power 750	RHEL 7.3
IBM Power 750	RHEL 6.9
IBM Power 750	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 7.3
iDataPlex M4 DX360	RHEL 6.9
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 11 SP4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 14.04.4
iDataPlex M4 DX360	Ubuntu 16.04.1
iDataPlex M4 DX360	SLES 12 SP2 Issue #2322

Key Issues Resolved

• Issue #3047 Regular Expression broken it lastest development build 5/12/17

• Issue #3042 confignetwork does not support capital letter in nictypes

• Issue #2905 xcatd 3002 port disappear

• Issue #2795 performing yum update xCAT* overwrote our log rotate settings

• Issue #2794 Nodeset fails to generate /tftpboot config files if ip attribute is not set

• Issue #2636 xcat command returns 0 when cmd fails due authorization

Restrictions and Known Issues

• Issue #2578 makehosts and confignics need to Regular Expression handling for nicips in nics table