xcat - extreme Cluster Administration Tool.
Extreme Cluster Administration Toolkit (xCAT). xCAT is a scalable distributed computing management and provisioning tool that provides a unified interface for hardware control, discovery, and OS diskful/diskfree deployment.
All of the cluster configuration information is in the xCAT database. See xcatdb(5) for descriptions of every table in the database.
What follows is a short description of each xCAT command. To get more information about a particular command, see its man page.
Change xCAT data object definitions.
Changes HMC- and IVM-managed partition profiles.
dumps the xCAT db tables .
Collects node MAC address.
search through tables using keys and return attributes.
Use this command to list xCAT data object definitions.
Queries selected networked services information within the same subnet.
Lists partition profile information for HMC- and IVM-managed nodes.
Use this command to create xCAT data object definitions.
Creates HMC- and IVM-managed partitions.
Lists monitoring plug-in modules that can be used to monitor the xCAT cluster.
Starts a plug-in module to monitor the xCAT cluster.
Stops a monitoring plug-in module to monitor the xCAT cluster.
Changes nodes' attributes in the xCAT cluster database.
lists the nodes in the noderange.
Removes the nodes in the noderange from all database table.
display the running status of a noderange
Builds the stateless image from the chroot file system.
Runs a command on the noderange using the out-of-band console.
parallel ping.
parallel ping between nodes in cluster.
parallel rsync
parallel remote copy
parallel remote shell
Turns beacon on/off/blink or gives status of a node or noderange.
Sets the boot order for BladeCenter blades.
remote console
Registers a Perl module or a command that will get called when changes occur in the desired xCAT database tables.
restores the xCAT db tables .
retrieve or clear remote hardware event logs
remote hardware inventory
Use this command to remove xCAT data object definitions.
Removes HMC- and IVM-managed partitions.
Cause the range of nodes to boot to network.
remote power control of nodes
Collects node information from one or more hardware control points.
Sets the boot order for servers with BMC service processors.
remote power control of nodes
remote hardware inventory
remote hardware vitals
list table names in which an entry for the given node appears.
unregister a Perl module or a command that was watching for the changes of the desired xCAT database tables.
Adds the needed Service Node configuration files to the install image.
windowed remote console
kill windowed remote consoles
Sample client program for xCAT.
Use this command to create and manage AIX NIM definitions based on xCAT object definitions.
Formats and consolidates the output of the psh command.
Concurrently runs commands on multiple nodes.
Formats the output of the xdsh command.
syntax for compactly expressing a list of node names
Describes the format of a stanza file that can be used with xCAT commands.
Add, delete or update rows in the database tables.
Copies Linux distributions and service levels from CDs to install directory.
Creates new dhcp configuration files and updates live dhcp configuration using omapi.
sets up domain name services (DNS) from the entries in /etc/hosts.
Adds or deletes nodes in the xCAT cluster database.
Adds nodes to the xCAT cluster database.
set the boot state for a noderange
display an xCAT database table in CSV format.
view an xCAT database table in an editor and make changes.
replaces the contents of an xCAT database table with the contents in a csv file.