8.3 Notes for OSCAR and Rocks Users

Since OSCAR installs and uses SIS, much of this material probably seemed vaguely familiar to you. OSCAR uses SystemInstaller to build the image directly on the server rather than capture the image from a golden client. However, once you have installed OSCAR, you can use the SIS scripts as you see fit.

The configuration file for rsync is in /etc/systemimager/rsync. OSCAR stores the SystemImager files in /var/lib/systemimager. For example, the image files it creates are in /var/lib/systemimager/images.

Rocks uses Kickstart. It uses XML files to record configuration information, dynamically generating the Kickstart configuration file. Changing these XML files is described in Chapter 7. You can interactively re-Kickstart a compute node with the shoot-node command. See the manpage shoot-node(8) for more details.