Table of Contents
Introduction
This document provides an overview of test xcat-inventory diff command. This test plan is intended for the use of xCAT FVT team.
The test is against xCAT version 2.14.4. The build of xCAT will be picked up from the xcat.org
Test scenarios
- Compare 2 inventory files
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Create 2 inventory files, objects:
node site osimage network
, compared with the first one, the second need to contain content as below:- Add/delete dict type data
- Add/delete string from list data
- Modify value of attribute
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Compare these 2 files by
xcat-inventory diff --files <file1> <file2>
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Check output whether is same with prepared output file
- Compare 1 inventory with xCAT DB
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Backup current inventory info
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Import inventory file to xCAT DB
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Compare the inventory file exported withe xCAT DB by
xcat-inventory diff --source <file>
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Check output whether is same with prepared output file
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Recover environment
- Compare 1 inventory with xCAT DB with
--all
option
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Compare the inventory file exported withe xCAT DB by
xcat-inventory diff --source <file> --all
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Check output whether contains diff string
- Error commands test
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Run
xcat-inventory diff --files <file1> <file2> --all
, check error message -
Run
xcat-inventory diff --source <file> --filename <filename>
, check error message -
Run
xcat-inventory diff
, check error message -
Run
xcat-inventory diff --files <file1> <file2> --source <file>
, check error message -
Run
xcat-inventory diff --filename <filename>
, check error message -
Run
xcat-inventory diff --files <no_exist_file> <file2>
, check error message
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.