2.3. Adding the Roll to Nodes

To add the the Service Pack Roll to the nodes of your cluster, you'll need to reinstall the nodes.

To reinstall all your nodes, as root execute:

# rocks run host '/boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart-pxe'

Warning

It is critical that you run cluster-kickstart-pxe as it will force the compute nodes to PXE boot. It is important that you PXE boot the nodes for the first install, because with a PXE boot based install, the nodes with get their initrd from the frontend and inside the initrd is a new tracker-client that is compatible with the new tracker-server. After the first install, a new initrd will be on the hard disk of the installed nodes and then it is safe to run /boot/kickstart/cluster-kickstart.