<html><body><p><font size="2">The Spectrum Scale releases prior to 5.1 included all of the dependent packages needed by OpenStack along with the Object protocol. Although initially done because the platform repos did not have the necessary dependent packages, eventually it introduced significant difficulties in terms of keeping the growing number of dependent packages current with the latest functionality and security fixes. To ensure that bug and security fixes can be delivered as soon as possible, the switch was made to use the platform-specific repos for the dependencies rather than including them with the Scale installer. Unfortunately, this has made the install more complicated as these system repos need to be configured on the system.</font><br><br><font size="2">The subscription pool with the OpenStack repos is typically not enabled by default. To see if your subscription has the necessary repos, use the command </font><tt><font size="2">"subscription-manager list --all --available</font></tt><font size="2">" and search for OpenStack. If found, use the Pool ID to add the subscription to your system with the command: "subscription-manager attach --pool=</font><i><font size="2">PoolID</font></i><font size="2">". Once the pool has been added, then the repos openstack-16-for-rhel-8 and codeready-builder-for-rhel-8 should be able to be added to the subscription-manager. If the subscription list does not show any subscriptions with OpenStack resources, then it may be necessary to add an applicable subscription, such as the "Red Hat OpenStack Platform" subscription.</font><br><br><font size="2">-Brian<br><br>===================================<br>Brian Nelson<br>512-286-7735<br>(T/L) 363-7735<br>IBM Spectrum Scale<br>brnelson@us.ibm.com</font><br><font size="2" color="#800080">----- Forwarded by Brian Nelson/Austin/IBM</font><font size="2" color="#800080"> on 12/07/2020 06:06 PM</font><font size="2" color="#800080"> -----</font><br><br><font size="2" face="Arial">----- Original message -----<br>From: Andi Christiansen <andi@christiansen.xxx><br>Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org<br>To: "gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org" <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org><br>Cc:<br>Subject: [gpfsug-discuss] Spectrum Scale 5.1.0.1 Object install / Redhat repos.<br>Date: Mon, Dec 7, 2020 3:15 PM<br> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Hi All,</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Merry christmas to everyone listening in!</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">I hope someone can shed some light on this as its starting to annoy me that i cant get any information other than whats in the documentation which for this part is not very fullfilling.. atleast for me it isnt..</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">I am currently discussing with IBM Support about the Spectrum Scale Object install procedure for v5.1.0.1 because alot of dependencies is missing when trying to install it.</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Link to the documentation:</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1ins_manualobjinstall.htm">https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.1.0/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r10.doc/bl1ins_manualobjinstall.htm</a></font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">And as i could read in the documentation before i contacted IBM and what they said to me after i created the ticket is that </font><b><font size="2" face="Arial">"The installation of </font></b><b><i><font size="2" face="Arial">spectrum-scale-object</font></i></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> requires that the repositories for the OpenStack packages and their dependencies are available, which are </font></b><b><i><u><font size="2" face="Arial">typically</font></u></i></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> the </font></b><b><u><font size="2" face="Arial">openstack-16-for-rhel-8</font></u></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> and </font></b><b><u><font size="2" face="Arial">codeready-builder-for-rhel-8</font></u></b><b><font size="2" face="Arial"> repositories"</font></b><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">And here is the funny part, i dont like the word "Typically" as if we are to guess where to find the dependencies.. i get the idea of moving the packages away from the spectrum scale package to be sure they are up-to-date when installed rather than old versions lying around until a new .x version releases..</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">but any who, even trying to enable those two repos have proved difficult as they are simply not available on my system.. hence why i still have a lot of dependencies missing..</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">My theory is that to have those repos shown to my system i would need another redhat license than the "server license" i already have? propably some sort of Redhat Openstack license? Can any one confirm if this is the case?</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">If it is i guess that means that IBM is now pushing a new license ontop of customers if they want to use the new Object release with the 5.1.0.1 version... and that will be it for me.. ill look some where else then for the object/s3 part..</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Sorry if i come across as angry but im starting to get alittle annoyed at IBM :) We were using S3 on the previous release but in the end could'nt really use it because of the limitations of the old way they implemented it and we're told there was a new backend coming which had all the features needed but then they pulled it from the .0 version without notice and we had already upgraded from 4.x.x.x to 5.1.x.x and had to find out the hard way.. most of you propably read the old discussion i started about an alternative to scale object/s3..</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><font size="2" face="Arial">Best Regards<br>Andi Christiansen</font><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>gpfsug-discuss mailing list<br>gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org</font></tt><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF"><br></font></u></tt><a href="http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss" target="_blank"><tt><u><font size="2" color="#0000FF">http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss</font></u></tt></a><tt><font size="2"> </font></tt><br><font size="2" face="Arial"> </font><br><BR>
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