XCAT_2.9.2_aix_Release_Notes

New Functions and Changes in Behavior

New Hardware Support

    Support IBM Power 8 server

    For the hardware control, only HMC-based hardware management is supported.

    The following hardware control commands have been verified: rpower,rcons,rinv,rvitals,rspconfig,rflash

New Operating System Support

    AIX 6.1.9.30 and AIX 7.1.3.45

    Diskful Install

    Verified updatenode command

    Verified syncfile mechanism

Enabled the TLSv1 in the connections between xcat client, xcatd, and compute node.

lsdef -t site clustersite -i xcatsslversion

Object name: clustersite xcatsslversion=TLSv1

Test Environment xCAT core packages tar ball:

core-aix-2.9.2.tar.gz

xCAT dependency package verified with this xCAT release:

dep-aix-201505060154.tar.gz

Operating Systems which have been verified:

AIX6.1 TL8 SP6
AIX6.1 TL9 SP5
AIX7.1 TL3 SP5

Hardware Platform which have been verified:

POWER8 BE (HMC version: V8R8.3.0)

Restrictions and Known Problems

Sometimes the command rspconfig <node> sshcfg cannot output correct status of ssh without password configuration. The work around is you can try to ssh to the hmc to test whether the key has been set correctly. Issue 352