Cray System Management Documentation > Cray System Management (CSM) Administration Guide > node management > Add Remove Replace NCNs > Boot NCN

Boot NCN

Description

Boot a master, worker, or storage non-compute node (NCN) that is to be added to the cluster.

Procedure

Open and watch the console for the node being rebuilt

Log in to a second session in order to watch the console.

Open this link in a new tab or page: Log in to a Node Using ConMan

The first session will be needed to run the commands in the following Rebuild Node steps.

Set the PXE boot option and power on the node

IMPORTANT: These commands assume that the variables from the prerequisites section have been set.

Set the BMC variable to the hostname of the BMC of the node being rebuilt.

If booting ncn-m001, then set this to the FQDN or IP address.
```
BMC="${NODE}-mgmt"
```
Export the root user password of the BMC.

read -s is used in order to prevent the password from being echoed to the screen or saved in the shell history.
```
read -r -s -p "${BMC} root password: " IPMI_PASSWORD
export IPMI_PASSWORD
```

Check the power status. Power the BMC off if Chassis Power is on.

ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -E -H "${BMC}" chassis power status
ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -E -H "${BMC}" chassis power off

Set the pxe efiboot option.

ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -E -H "${BMC}" chassis bootdev pxe options=efiboot

Power on the node.

ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -E -H "${BMC}" chassis power on

Verify that the node is on.

Ensure that the power is reporting as on. It may take 5-10 seconds for this to update.
```
ipmitool -I lanplus -U root -E -H "${BMC}" chassis power status
```

Observe the boot

Within several minutes, the node should begin to boot. This can be viewed from the ConMan console window. Eventually, there will be a NBP file... message in the console output. This indicates that the PXE boot has started the TFTP download of the ipxe program. Later messages will appear as the Linux kernel loads and the scripts in the initrd begin to run, including cloud-init.

Wait until cloud-init displays messages similar to these on the console. This indicates that cloud-init has finished with the module called modules-final.

[  300.390000] cloud-init[7110]: 2022-03-16 18:30:59,449 - util.py[DEBUG]: cloud-init mode 'modules' took 244.143 seconds (198.87)
[  300.390106] cloud-init[7110]: 2022-03-16 18:30:59,449 - handlers.py[DEBUG]: finish: modules-final: SUCCESS: running modules for final
[  OK  ] Started Execute cloud user/final scripts.
[  OK  ] Reached target Cloud-init target.

Press enter on the console and ensure that the login prompt includes the correct hostname of this node.
Exit the ConMan console (& then .).
Use ssh to log in to the node in order to complete any remaining steps based on the node type.

Verify that the added master or worker node has joined the cluster

Skip this section if the node being added is a storage node.

(ncn-mw#) List the nodes in the Kubernetes cluster.

kubectl get nodes

Example output:

NAME       STATUS   ROLES    AGE    VERSION
ncn-m001   Ready    master   2d7h   v1.19.9
ncn-m002   Ready    master   20d    v1.19.9
ncn-m003   Ready    master   20d    v1.19.9
ncn-w001   Ready    <none>   27h    v1.19.9
ncn-w002   Ready    <none>   20d    v1.19.9
ncn-w003   Ready    <none>   20d    v1.19.9
ncn-w004   Ready    <none>    1h    v1.19.9

Set the `no-wipe` flag

Setting the no-wipe flag safeguards against the disks being wiped when the node is rebooted.

Run the following commands from a node that has cray CLI initialized. See Configure the Cray CLI.

(ncn#) Save the current BSS boot parameters for the node.

cray bss bootparameters list --name "${XNAME}" --format=json | jq .[] > "${XNAME}.json"

Edit the XNAME.json file and set the metal.no-wipe=1 value.

(ncn#) Get a token to interact with BSS using the REST API.

TOKEN=$(curl -s -S -d grant_type=client_credentials -d client_id=admin-client \
            -d client_secret=`kubectl get secrets admin-client-auth -o jsonpath='{.data.client-secret}' | base64 -d` \
            https://api-gw-service-nmn.local/keycloak/realms/shasta/protocol/openid-connect/token \
            | jq -r '.access_token')

(ncn#) Do a PUT action for the edited JSON file.

This command can be run from any node.

curl -i -s -k -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
        "https://api-gw-service-nmn.local/apis/bss/boot/v1/bootparameters" \
        -X PUT -d @"./${XNAME}.json"

(ncn#) Verify that the cray bss bootparameters list command returns the expected information.
1. Export the list from BSS to a file with a different name.
```
cray bss bootparameters list --name "${XNAME}" --format=json |jq .[]> "${XNAME}.check.json"
```
2. Compare the new JSON file with what was put into BSS.
```
diff "${XNAME}.json" "${XNAME}.check.json"
```
  The command should return no output because the files should be identical.

Run NCN personalizations using CFS as desired

Run the following commands from a node that has cray CLI initialized. See Configure the Cray CLI.

(ncn#) Determine which configuration to apply to the node.

There are multiple ways to do this. Choose the one which best fits the situation.
- Run the following command to list the available configurations.
```
cray cfs configurations list --format toml
```
- Determine the configuration applied another NCN of the same type. This example checks the configuration on ncn-w002.
```
cray cfs components describe "$(ssh ncn-w002 cat /etc/cray/xname)" --format toml
```
(ncn#) Select the appropriate configuration based on the previous step to personalize the added NCN.

In this example, the management-23.03 configuration is used.
```
cray cfs components update "${XNAME}" --desired-config management-23.03
```

(ncn#) Wait for configurationStatus to transition from pending to configured.

watch "cray cfs components describe '${XNAME}' --format json | jq .configurationStatus"

Example output excerpt:

"configured"

Set BMC management roles

Follow the Set BMC Management Roles procedure. This will mark the added NCN’s BMC with the Management role, making it easier to identify as a BMC that is associated with a management node. This step is needed before locking the BCM of the added NCN.

Lock the management nodes

Follow the How to Lock Management Single Node procedure. The management nodes may be unlocked at this point. Locking the management nodes and their BMCs will prevent actions from FAS to update their firmware, or from PCS/CAPMC to power off or do a power reset. Doing any of these by accident will take down a management node. If the management node is a Kubernetes master or worker node, then this can have serious negative effects on system operation.

Configure the Cray Command Line Interface (Cray CLI)

See Configure the Cray Command Line Interface (cray CLI) for details on how to configure the Cray CLI on the added node.

Add storage node to the Ceph cluster

Skip this section if the node being added is NOT a storage node.

Follow Add Ceph Node to join the added storage node to the Ceph cluster.

Restore the site link for `ncn-m001`

Skip this section if the node being added is NOT ncn-m001.

Restore and verify the site link for ncn-m001.

Access ncn-m002 using its CMN IP address, which was recorded prior to powering down ncn-m001.

IMPORTANT: If the vendor of the replaced master node has changed, then before the configuration is reloaded, verify that the BRIDGE_PORTS setting in /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lan0 is based on the actual NIC names for the external site interface.

ssh root@CMN_IP
rsync /tmp/ifcfg-lan0-m001 ncn-m001:/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-lan0
ssh ncn-m001
wicked ifreload lan0
wicked ifstatus lan0