IBM Platform Cluster Manager Version 4.2.1 Fix 374195 Readme File

Abstract

Apply this fix to add Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 x86-64 support to Platform Cluster Manager 4.2.1.

Description

Readme documentation for IBM® Platform Cluster Manager Version 4.2.1 Fix 374195, including installation-related instructions and prerequisites.

Apply this fix to add Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.7 x86-64 support to Platform Cluster Manager 4.2.1, specifically for the following cases:

RHEL 6.7 x86-64 management node and RHEL 6.7 x86-64 compute nodes
RHEL 6.7 x86-64 management node and CentOS 6.7 x86-64 compute nodes
RHEL 6.7 x86-64 management node and RHEL for HPC Compute Node 6.7 x86-64 compute nodes
RHEL 7.1 x86-64 management node and RHEL 6.7 x86-64 compute nodes

Readme file for: IBM® Platform Cluster Manager
Product/Component release: 4.2.1
Update name: Fix 374195
Fix ID: pcm-4.2.1-build374195
Publication date: 24 Nov 2015
Last modification date: 24 Nov 2015

List of fixes
Download location
Products or components affected
System requirements
Installation and configuration
List of files
Copyright and trademark information

1. List of fixes

RHEL 6.7 x86-64 support for Platform Cluster Manager 4.2.1.

2. Download location

Fix 374195 can be downloaded from IBM Fix Central at http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.

3. Products or components affected

Fix 374195 affects the following versions of Platform Cluster Manager: 4.2.1

4. System requirements

RHEL 6.7/7.1 x86-64 must be installed on the management node.
Platform Cluster Manager 4.2.1 must be installed.

5. Installation and configuration

Applying this fix involves the following steps:

5.1 Download the "pcm-4.2.1-build374195" fix package from IBM Fix Central.

5.2 Upload the fix tar file to the Platform Cluster Manager management node.

5.3 On the Platform Cluster Manager management node, extract the fix tar file.

# mkdir -p /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build374195

# tar -zxvf pcm_4.2.1_374195_fix.tar.gz -C /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build374195

5.4 On the Platform Cluster Manager management node, create a backup of the discinfo.pm file. Then, copy the extracted discinfo.pm file to the same location.

# mv /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/data/discinfo.pm /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build374195/discinfo.pm.orig
# cp /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build374195/discinfo.pm /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/data/discinfo.pm

5.5 If high availability is enabled, repeat step 5.2 to 5.4 on the Platform Cluster Manager standby management node. Otherwise, omit this step.

5.6 For the add OS distributions. See Adding an OS distribution for instructions on how to add RHEL 6.7/CentOS 6.7/RHEL HPC 6.7 as an OS distribution.

6. List of files

discinfo.pm

7. Copyright and trademark information

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