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NIM client boot problem
Post 302568080 by phobus on Wednesday 26th of October 2011 07:31:21 AM
10-26-2011
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Right the good news is the NIM server knows that the LPAR is there and ready to be installed. It also knows that certain resources are allocated to it.
Please excuse me if I am "Teaching my Granny how to suck eggs".
How did you try to boot the LPAR, from the NIM server? Or have you started the LPAR to SMS and setup the network boot configuration. This as you well know includes the IP address of the server, its subnet mask, and the IP address of the gateway. You can then PING the NIM master to make sure the network between the NIM master and client is open with no firewall in the way, which often happens.
Again if I am telling you things you already know please excuse me. The things I have outlined above are the usual reasons a NIM client will not boot from the NIM master.
Please excuse me if I am "Teaching my Granny how to suck eggs".
How did you try to boot the LPAR, from the NIM server? Or have you started the LPAR to SMS and setup the network boot configuration. This as you well know includes the IP address of the server, its subnet mask, and the IP address of the gateway. You can then PING the NIM master to make sure the network between the NIM master and client is open with no firewall in the way, which often happens.
Again if I am telling you things you already know please excuse me. The things I have outlined above are the usual reasons a NIM client will not boot from the NIM master.
I'm happy if someone is trying to help me .Every time I go to SMS and set up IPL and ping NIM server. But the thing is that I can ping NIM server but I can not use bootps for some reason.
I have contacted our network team to confirm, that ports 67 and 68 are not blocked to this particular managed system.
If they say that there are no ports blocked I will assign physical ethernet adapter to lpar to avoid VIOS and will see if it was caused by VIOS or not.
---------- Post updated at 12:31 PM ---------- Previous update was at 12:06 PM ----------
So I have tried to boot up via physical ethernet adapter from another NIM server and avoided VIO server and still I can not boot. I can ping the NIM server but not use bootps protocol.
Still waiting for network team to confirm if bootps ports are blocked or not.
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LEARN ABOUT HPUX
bootpquery
bootpquery(1M) bootpquery(1M) NAME
bootpquery - send BOOTREQUEST to BOOTP server SYNOPSIS
haddr [htype] [options] DESCRIPTION
is a diagnostic function used to check the configuration of the Internet Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP) server, bootpd(1M). This function can only be run by the superuser, since it uses reserved ports. constructs a boot request with the supplied parameters to send to the BOOTP server, and prints the contents of the BOOTP server reply (as shown in below). Note that formats and prints RFC-1048 or CMU-style vendor information included in the BOOTREPLY. The BOOTREQUEST packet is broadcast on the BOOTP server port, If a BOOTP server is configured to respond to the request, it returns a BOOTREPLY packet on the BOOTP client port, can only display BOOTREPLY packets when the BOOTP server broadcasts the reply on the client port or when the hardware address and IP address supplied in the BOOTREQUEST are those of the host on which is run. The following options provide the information for the BOOTREQUEST: Hardware address of the BOOTP client; used in the BOOTREQUEST. A BOOTP server responds if it has configuration information for a host with this link-level address. Type of address specified as haddr; may be or The default address type is Specify the internet address of the BOOTP client to be used in the BOOTREQUEST. If the BOOTP client does not know its IP address, the BOOTP server supplies it in the BOOTREPLY. Otherwise, the server returns the BOOTREPLY directly to ipaddr. Specify the name of the BOOTP server to receive BOOTREQUEST. When the BOOTP server is known, the BOOTREQUEST is not broadcast. Specify a vendor name to include vendor information in the BOOTREPLAY. vendor can be specified as or For any other vendor specification, the first four characters of the parameter are used as the vendor magic cookie. Specify that should broadcast the reply back. This option is only valid for on the HPUX 10.0 (or later) release(s). Specify a boot file needed by the BOOTP client. If a boot file is specified in the BOOTREQUEST, the BOOTP server responds only if the server host can make the file available. EXAMPLES
/usr/sbin/bootpquery 02608cee018e ether -s hpserver Received BOOTREPLY from hpserver.hp.com (15.9.18.119) Hardware Address: 02:60:8c:ee:01:8e Hardware Type: ethernet IP Address: 15.9.18.113 Boot file: /export/tftpdir/hp-gw2-confg RFC 1048 Vendor Information: Subnet Mask: 255.255.248.0 Bootfile Size: 6 512 byte blocks Domain Name Server: 15.9.18.119 Host Name: hp-gw2 AUTHOR
was developed by HP. SEE ALSO
bootpd(1M), tftp(1), tftpd(1M). DARPA Internet Request For Comments RFC951, RFC1048, RFC1084, RFC1395, RFC1542 Assigned Numbers. bootpquery(1M)