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The generation of cumulus osimage: copycds /iso/cumulus-3.5.2-armel/cumulus-linux-3.5.2-bcm-armel.bin determine the file ./cumulus-linux-3.5.2-bcm-armel.bin, if the output is data, it will perform the following 3 steps:

a. run “cumulus-linux-3.5.2-bcm-armel.bin” and get the binary information and generate the osimage name

 # ./cumulus-linux-3.5.2-bcm-armel.bin
 Verifying image checksum ...OK.
 Preparing image archive ... OK.
 Control File Contents
 =====================
 Description: Cumulus Linux 3.5.2
 Release: 3.5.2
 Architecture: armel
 Switch-Architecture: bcm-armel
 Build-Id: bab9bc5z1d1b1f3
 Build-Date: 2018-01-31T00:41:00+0000
 Build-User: clbuilder
 Homepage: http://www.cumulusnetworks.com/
 Min-Disk-Size: 1073741824
 Min-Ram-Size: 536870912
 mkimage-version: cl3u13

b. copy the binary to the /install/cumulus3.5.2/cumulus-3.5.2-armel/

c. create the the following osimage definition

[root@c910f03c05k21 cumulus_mlx]# lsdef -t osimage -o cumulus3.5.2-armel
Object name: cumulus3.5.2-armel
    imagetype=linux
    osarch=armel
    osvers=cumulus3.5.2
    pkgdir=/install/cumulus3.5.2/armel/cumulus-linux-3.5.2-bcm-armel.bin  #<<< might be a comma separated list, the 1st should be the full path to the bin file
    synclists=/tmp/compute.synclist #<<<<<<<synclist specified here>>>>>>>>>>>>
    postscripts=xxxx
    postbootscripts=xxxx

nodeset mid05tor12 osimage=cumulus3.5.2-armel
```
[root@briggs01 ~]# lsdef mid05tor12
Object name: mid05tor12
    groups=switch,edge_switch
    ip=172.11.205.12
    mac=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
    mgt=switch
    netboot=onie
```
nodeset performs the following operations:

(1) find the "*.bin" file under the first entry in osimage.pkgdir, then copy the "*.bin" to /install/osimages/cumulus3.5.2-armel

(2)assign the node.provmethod to the osimage name

(3)run "makedhcp -a ", generate the dhcp lease with full path to the bin file in default-url option
add an option -r [the full path to scp or rsync] for updatenode to select scp/rsync, refine the code logic in updatenode and xdcp to enable this
```
# updatenode mid05tor12 -F -r /usr/bin/scp
# xdcp mid05tor12 -F -r /usr/bin/scp
```
refine the code logic in startsyncfiles.awk , add an option -r to select the scp or rsync, the compute node can select the scp/rsync according to the existence of the 2 executables
```
# syncfiles -r usr/bin/scp
```

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.