NAME

addkit - Adds product software Kits to an xCAT cluster environmnet.

SYNOPSIS

addkit [-?|-h|--help] [-v|--version]

addkit [-i|--inspection] kitlist

addkit [-V|--verbose] [-p|--path path] kitlist

DESCRIPTION

The addkit command installs a kit on the xCAT management node from a kit tarfile or directory. It creates xCAT database definitions for the kit, kitrepo, and kitcomponent.

Note: xCAT Kit support is ONLY available for Linux operating systems.

OPTIONS

-h|--help: Display usage message.
-V|--verbose: Verbose mode.
-v|--version: Command version.
-i|--inspection: Show the summary of the given kits
-p|--path path: The destination directory to which the contents of the kit tarfiles and/or kit deploy directories will be copied. When this option is not specified, the default destination directory will be formed from the installdir site attribute with ./kits subdirectory.
kitlist: A comma delimited list of kit_tarball_files or kit_deploy_directories to be added to the xCAT environment. Each entry can be an absolute or relative path. See xCAT documentation for more information on building kits.

RETURN VALUE

0 The command completed successfully.

1 An error has occurred.

EXAMPLES

1. To add kits from tarball files:

 addkit kit-test1.tar.bz2,kit-test2.tar.bz2

2. To add kits from directories:

 addkit kit-test1,kit-test2

3. To add kits from tarball kit-test1.tar.bz2 to target path /install/test:

 addkit -p /install/test kit-test1.tar.bz2

4. To see general information about kit kit-test1.tar.bz2 without adding the kit to xCAT: