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Social Systems Administration
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The xCAT Documentation Problem
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Ever since 2001 I remember hearing the same thing about xCAT: “The documentation needs improvement”, “There is a steep learning curve”. Back in those days the quick xCAT-mini-howto was a great way to get going. The problem is that it left out a lot of the important details like service nodes, offloading tftp servers, etc….
Rails and other web services on the same box
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The Sumavisor is built on top of xCAT. The Sumavisor is a rails application, with lots of xCAT plugins that sit on top of the base xCAT. One thing we had to work out was having a web server host a rails application (the Sumavisor) and allow xCAT to install nodes via HTTP. The solution…