Node provisioning failed

Resolving common node provisioning issues in IBM® Platform Cluster Manager Community Edition.

The following are common issues regarding node provisioning:
  • Cannot add nodes to the system. The following error message is displayed:
    Cannot add nodes. A node discovery process is already in progress. Try again later.
    This error occurs if there are more than one user trying to add nodes at the same time, or if a previous node discovery process was not closed. To resolve this issue and restart the Web Portal, run the following commands:
    # rm -f /opt/pcm/web-portal/gui/work/persistenceConf_Q7qzrbAI9S4=.json
# pcmadmin service restart --service WEBGUI

  • Image profile packages are missing.

    Ensure that you have all the needed image profile OS packages:

    For RHEL 6.x:
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels6.ppc64.stateful.pkglist
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels6.ppc64.stateless.pkglist
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels6.x86_64.stateful.pkglist
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels6.x86_64.stateless.pkglist
    For RHEL 5.x:
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels5.x86_64.stateful.pkglist
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/rhels5.x86_64.stateless.pkglist
    For SLES 11.x:
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/sles11.x86_64.stateful.pkglist
    • /opt/pcm/etc/template/imageprofile/sles11.x86_64.stateless.pkglist

    If you are missing any OS packages, add the missing OS packages to the image profile and reprovision the node.