diff --git a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/updatenode.rst b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/updatenode.rst index 7f6069cc9..9395c7424 100644 --- a/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/updatenode.rst +++ b/docs/source/guides/admin-guides/manage_clusters/common/updatenode.rst @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Install Additional non-OS Packages If you have additional packages (packages not in the distro) that you also want installed, make a directory to hold them, create a list of the packages you want installed, and add that information to the osimage definition. How to add Additional Other Packages, go to `Install Additional Other Packages `_ -Update Stateful Nodes +Update Nodes ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Run the updatenode command to push the new software to the nodes: :: @@ -53,23 +53,7 @@ If you have a configuration script that is necessary to configure the new softwa The next time you re-install these nodes, the additional software will be automatically installed. -Update Stateless Nodes -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -Run the updatenode command to push the new software to the nodes: :: - - updatenode -S - - -The -S flag updates the nodes with all the new or updated rpms specified in both .pkglist and .otherpkgs.pkglist. - -If you have a configuration script that is necessary to configure the new software, then instead run: :: - - cp myconfigscript /install/postscripts/ - chdef -p -t compute postbootscripts=myconfigscript - updatenode ospkgs,otherpkgs,myconfigscript - -**You must also do this next step**, otherwise the next time you reboot the stateless nodes, the new software won't be on the nodes. Run genimage and packimage to install the extra rpms into the image: :: +**If you update stateless nodes, you must also do this next step**, otherwise the next time you reboot the stateless nodes, the new software won't be on the nodes. Run genimage and packimage to install the extra rpms into the image: :: genimage packimage