addkit.1

NAME

addkit - Adds product software Kits to an xCAT cluster environment.

SYNOPSIS

addkit [-? | -h | --help] [-v | --version]

addkit [-i | --inspection] kitlist

addkit [-V | --verbose] [-p | --path path] kitlist

DESCRIPTION

The addkit command installs a kit on the xCAT management node from a kit tarfile or directory. It creates xCAT database definitions for the kit, kitrepo, and kitcomponent.

Note: xCAT Kit support is ONLY available for Linux operating systems.

OPTIONS

-h|--help

Display usage message.

-V|--verbose

Verbose mode.

-v|--version

Command version.

-i|--inspection

Show the summary of the given kits

-p|--path path

The destination directory to which the contents of the kit tarfiles and/or kit deploy directories will be copied. When this option is not specified, the default destination directory will be formed from the installdir site attribute with ./kits subdirectory.

kitlist

A comma delimited list of kit_tarball_files or kit_deploy_directories to be added to the xCAT environment. Each entry can be an absolute or relative path. See xCAT documentation for more information on building kits.

RETURN VALUE

0 The command completed successfully.

1 An error has occurred.

EXAMPLES

  1. To add kits from tarball files:

addkit kit-test1.tar.bz2,kit-test2.tar.bz2

  1. To add kits from directories:

addkit kit-test1,kit-test2

  1. To add kits from tarball kit-test1.tar.bz2 to target path /install/test:

addkit -p /install/test kit-test1.tar.bz2

  1. To see general information about kit kit-test1.tar.bz2 without adding the kit to xCAT:

addkit -i kit-test1.tar.bz2

SEE ALSO

lskit(1)|lskit.1, rmkit(1)|rmkit.1, addkitcomp(1)|addkitcomp.1, rmkitcomp(1)|rmkitcomp.1, chkkitcomp(1)|chkkitcomp.1