xcatd.8

NAME

xcatd - The xCAT daemon

SYNOPSIS

xcatd

DESCRIPTION

The heart of the xCAT architecture is the xCAT daemon xcatd on the management node. This receives requests from the client, validates the requests, and then invokes the operation. The xcatd daemon also receives status and inventory info from the nodes as they are being discovered and installed/booted.

Errors and information are reported through syslog to the /var/log/messages file. You can search for xCAT in those messages.

For further information: See https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/xcat/index.php?title=XCAT_2_Architecture.

EXAMPLES

1. To start/stop/restart xcatd on Linux, enter:

   service xcatd start
   
   service xcatd stop
   
   service xcatd restart
   

2. To start/stop/restart xcatd on AIX, enter:

   restartxcatd
   
     or
   
   startsrc -s xcatd
   
   stopsrc -s xcatd
   

FILES

/opt/xcat/sbin/xcatd

SEE ALSO