collective members may be invited as non-voting

collective invite may now be passed ‘-n’ to have the invited member join as non-voting. A non-voting collective member will neither contribute nor detract from quorum. This permits indicating non-critical members to allow larger numbers of the collective to leave without issue.

SUSE installer output restored to automatic console

A change in SUSE had resulted in the automatic console failing to trigger text mode install when appropriate. This has been changed and text install is now triggered on automatic text console detection

Static IPv6 configuration of BMCs

Static IPv6 network configuration of redfish and IPMI BMCs has been added, visible in nodeconfig

nodeinventory can now gather uuid/serial/model information to confluent attributes

nodeinventory -s can be used to fill in attributes normally filled in by the discovery process. This allows users who skip discovery and add nodes manually to use nodeinventory to gather the attributes for informational purposes and directing boot.

nodediscover may now show affluent switches

In conjunction with changes made to affluent 1.2.0, nodediscover list -t affluent-switch will now show ethernet switches, and what IPv6 and IPv4 addresses may be used to reach them

nodeeventlog entry count and timeframe

The nodeeventlog command now has a -l option to request the specified number of most recent entries, or -t to request logs no older than a specified time.

nodeconsole can now open terminals in dedicated windows

The nodeconsole command now has the option -w to request windowed consoles.

Network configuration management can now deal with nic renaming through post/firstboot on select profiles

Before, when a post activity would result in a network device name change (e.g. OFED installation changing nVidia ethernet names), the network may have problems coming up. Some profiles have added support for adapting the configuration prior to firstboot to compensate for the name change.

Lenovo ThinkSystem V3 servers are officially supported

The new generation of Lenovo ThinkSystem servers have been tested and support enhanced according to new capabilities