NAME

nodelist - a table in the xCAT database.


SYNOPSIS

nodelist Attributes: node, groups, status, statustime, appstatus, appstatustime, primarysn, hidden, comments, disable


DESCRIPTION

The list of all the nodes in the cluster, including each node's current status and what groups it is in.


nodelist Attributes:

node

The hostname of a node in the cluster.

groups

A comma-delimited list of groups this node is a member of. Group names are arbitrary, except all nodes should be part of the 'all' group.

status

The current status of this node. This attribute will be set by xCAT software. Valid values: defined, booting, netbooting, booted, discovering, configuring, installing, alive, standingby, powering-off, unreachable. If blank, defined is assumed. The possible status change sequenses are: For installaton: defined->[discovering]->[configuring]->[standingby]->installing->booting->booted->[alive], For diskless deployment: defined->[discovering]->[configuring]->[standingby]->netbooting->booted->[alive], For booting: [alive/unreachable]->booting->[alive], For powering off: [alive]->powering-off->[unreachable], For monitoring: alive->unreachable. Discovering and configuring are for x Series dicovery process. Alive and unreachable are set only when there is a monitoring plug-in start monitor the node status for xCAT. Please note that the status values will not reflect the real node status if you change the state of the node from outside of xCAT (i.e. power off the node using HMC GUI).

statustime

The data and time when the status was updated.

appstatus

A comma-delimited list of application status. For example: 'sshd=up,ftp=down,ll=down'

appstatustime

The date and time when appstatus was updated.

primarysn

Not used currently. The primary servicenode, used by this node.

hidden

Used to hide fsp and bpa definitions, 1 means not show them when running lsdef and nodels

comments

Any user-written notes.

disable

Set to 'yes' or '1' to comment out this row.


SEE ALSO

nodels(1), chtab(8), tabdump(8), tabedit(8)