Re: [Testbed-admins] ALL newnode's interfaces added as role='expt'

[Leigh Stoller <stoller@flux.utah.edu>]

> We are trying to add about 90 experimental nodes into our new emulab
> setup.  We're using the "New Testbed Node" web interface to add
> these nodes.  We set each node to the proper NodeID, Identifier,
> Type, IP, and set the switch type, card, and port for each
> interface.  The make_dhpcd does not add the new nodes properly
> because the query which returns the proper IP for each MAC returns
> empty.  Our problem seems to be that the interfaces database
> registers ALL interfaces as 'expt' type.  Because of this, probably,
> no IPs are being added to interfaces also.  Can you suggest what we
> could do to remedy this?  We can change them by hand, but with six
> interfaces on 90 nodes, this is a bit of a headache.

I agree. This is intended to be mostly automated ... but the DB state
has to be correct. Lets try and figure this out for just one node
though. :-)

With one of your nodes booted into the newnode MFS, run this:

boss> /usr/testbed/libexec/switchmac

You might have to filter out the lines that do not apply to the one
node you picked to work with, which will be a real pain if all the
other nodes are still in the newnode MFS. Might want to power them
down.

Lbs
ps: the web interface calls out to switchmac, so once we get that
output correct, the web interface should start saying the right
things.