From 1d781685c530fc3c9f2ec1b107cb961ed6fe8753 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bp-sawyers Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:39:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Improved description of syspowerinterval and syspowermaxnodes for ipmi case. git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/xcat/code/xcat-core/trunk@13309 8638fb3e-16cb-4fca-ae20-7b5d299a9bcd --- perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm | 22 +++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm index 5800073a2..86279e4d5 100644 --- a/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm +++ b/perl-xCAT/xCAT/Schema.pm @@ -868,22 +868,26 @@ site => { " the node deployment, node discovery and power operations.\n\n". " ntpservers: A comma delimited list of NTP servers for the cluster - often the\n". " xCAT management node.\n\n". - " syspowerinterval: The number of seconds the rpower command to servers will wait\n". - " between performing the action for each server. Currently supported\n". - " for system p CECs and system x IPMI servers. This is used for\n". - " controlling the power on speed in large clusters. Default is 0.\n\n". + " syspowerinterval: For system p CECs, this is the number of seconds the rpower\n". + " command will wait between performing the action for each CEC.\n". + " For system x IPMI servers, this is the number of seconds the\n". + " rpower command will wait between powering on \n". + " nodes at a time. This value is used to control the power on speed\n". + " in large clusters. Default is 0.\n\n". " syspowermaxnodes: The number of servers to power on at one time before waiting\n". " 'syspowerinterval' seconds to continue on to the next set of\n". - " nodes. Currently only used for IPMI servers and must be set if\n". - " 'syspowerinterval' is set.\n\n". + " nodes. If the noderange given to rpower includes nodes served\n". + " by different service nodes, it will try to spread each set of\n". + " nodes across the service nodes evenly. Currently only used for\n". + " IPMI servers and must be set if 'syspowerinterval' is set.\n\n". " powerinterval: The number of seconds the rpower command to LPARs will wait between\n". " performing the action for each LPAR. LPARs of different HCPs\n". " (HMCs or FSPs) are done in parallel. This is used to limit the\n". " cluster boot up speed in large clusters. Default is 0. This is\n". " currently only used for system p hardware.\n\n". - " ppcmaxp: The max # of processes for PPC hw ctrl. If there are more than ppcmaxp hcps,\n". - " this parameter will take effect. It will control the max number of processes \n". - " for PPC hardware control commands. Default is 64.\n\n". + " ppcmaxp: The max # of processes for PPC hw ctrl. If there are more than ppcmaxp\n". + " hcps, this parameter will take effect. It will control the max number of\n". + " processes for PPC hardware control commands. Default is 64.\n\n". " ppcretry: The max # of PPC hw connection attempts to HMC before failing.\n". " It only takes effect on the hardware control commands through HMC. \n". " Default is 3.\n\n".