NAME

osimage - a table in the xCAT database.


SYNOPSIS

osimage Attributes: imagename, profile, imagetype, provmethod, rootfstype, osname, osvers, osdistro, osarch, synclists, postscripts, postbootscripts, comments, disable


DESCRIPTION

Basic information about an operating system image that can be used to deploy cluster nodes.


osimage Attributes:

imagename

The name of this xCAT OS image definition.

profile

The node usage category. For example compute, service.

imagetype

The type of operating system image this definition represents (linux,AIX).

provmethod

The provisioning method for node deployment. The valid values are install, netboot or statelite. It is not used by AIX.

rootfstype

The filesystem type for the rootfs is used when the provmethod is statelite. The valid values are nfs or ramdisk. The default value is nfs

osname

Operating system name- AIX or Linux.

osvers

The Linux operating system deployed on this node. Valid values: rhels*,rhelc*, rhas*,centos*,SL*, fedora*, sles* (where * is the version #).

osdistro

Not used.

osarch

The hardware architecture of this node. Valid values: x86_64, ppc64, x86, ia64.

synclists

The fully qualified name of a file containing a list of files to synchronize on the nodes.

postscripts

Comma separated list of scripts that should be run on this image after diskfull installation or diskless boot. For installation of RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, the scripts will be run before the reboot. For installation of SLES, the scripts will be run after the reboot but before the init.d process. For diskless deployment, the scripts will be run at the init.d time, and xCAT will automatically add the list of scripts from the postbootscripts attribute to run after postscripts list. For installation of AIX, the scripts will run after the reboot and acts the same as the postbootscripts attribute. For AIX, use the postbootscripts attribute. Support will be added in the future for the postscripts attribute to run the scripts before the reboot in AIX.

postbootscripts

Comma separated list of scripts that should be run on this after diskfull installation or diskless boot. On AIX these scripts are run during the processing of /etc/inittab. On Linux they are run at the init.d time. xCAT automatically adds the scripts in the xcatdefaults.postbootscripts attri bute to run first in the list.

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)