Add site:key=httpport to scripts

[wiede-man]

Hi,

I need to use port 8081 for HTTP as 80 and 443 are used by different applications on the xCAT master.
It's nice to see that the httpport value in the site table is working (stateful installation is starting), but scripts need to be adapted to get the postscripts process working.

I have modified the post.xcat script and my kickstart templates are pointing to the modified one.
The changes to get it working are:

[root@xcatmaster /]# diff /install/custom/install/rh/scripts/post.xcat.modified /opt/xcat/share/xcat/install/scripts/post.xcat
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< # Modified 2017-02-21 for different default http port
< #
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< export HTTPPORT=#TABLE:site:key=httpport:value#
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< wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused  -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject "index.html*" --no-parent -t 20 -T 60 http://$MASTER_IP:$HTTPPORT$INSTALLDIR/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost
---
> wget -l inf -N -r --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused  -e robots=off -nH --cut-dirs=2 --reject "index.html*" --no-parent -t 20 -T 60 http://$MASTER_IP$INSTALLDIR/postscripts/ -P /xcatpost
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< wget -N --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -t 20 -T 60 http://$MASTER_IP:$HTTPPORT$TFTPDIR/mypostscripts/mypostscript.$NODE  -P /xcatpost 2> /tmp/wget.log
---
> wget -N --waitretry=10 --random-wait --retry-connrefused -t 20 -T 60 http://$MASTER_IP$TFTPDIR/mypostscripts/mypostscript.$NODE  -P /xcatpost 2> /tmp/wget.log

Is there a chance to get this implemented by default in future releases? Unless changed in the site table, $HTTPPORT should always be 80.

[immarvin]

hi @wiede-man , I searched the code, it seems there are lots of places missing support for site.httpport attribute , we will try to find out all the places which missedsite.httpport support and create a fix for this in the next release

[wiede-man]

Thank you! I appreciate that a lot.

[thilo-maurer]

I need the same thing!

One irritation:

httpport:    The port number that the booting/installing nodes should contact the
             http server on the MN/SN on. It is your responsibility to configure
             the http server to listen on that port - xCAT will not do that.

• Ok, which config files do I have to change?
• Is it enough to change /etc/apache2/ports.conf?
• @wiede-man Which ones did you change?

[thilo-maurer]

Related issues:

• xCAT-probe discovery validation ignores site.httpport #5700
• xCAT-probe xcatmn validation ignores site.httpport #5701

[robin2008]

Let's put this high priority and done it in 2.14.5