Verify xCAT Installation

Quick verification of the xCAT Install can be done running the following steps:

1. Source the profile to add xCAT Commands to your path:

   source /etc/profile.d/xcat.sh
   

2. Check the xCAT version:

   lsxcatd -a
   

3. Check to verify that the xCAT database is initialized by dumping out the site table:

   tabdump site
   

   The output should be similar to the following:

   #key,value,comments,disable
   "blademaxp","64",,
   "domain","pok.stglabs.ibm.com",,
   "fsptimeout","0",,
   "installdir","/install",,
   "ipmimaxp","64",,
   "ipmiretries","3",,
   ...
   

Starting and Stopping

xCAT is started automatically after the installation, but the following commands can be used to start, stop, restart, and check xCAT status.

• start xCAT:

  service xcatd start
  [systemd] systemctl start xcatd.service
  

• stop xCAT:

  service xcatd stop
  [systemd] systemctl stop xcatd.service
  

• restart xCAT:

  service xcatd restart
  [systemd] systemctl restart xcatd.service
  

• check xCAT status:

  service xcatd status
  [systemd] systemctl status xcatd.service