Hi.
Thanks a lot for the explanation, I will test this approach and report
if there are any issues.
Regards,
Stas.
2008/4/20, Andrea Righi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Stas Oskin wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > After solving all the issues, I'm happily using SI, and already
> > installed several servers with it.
> >
> > I have only left some inconvenience in the installation, apparently
> > caused by the way I configured the system (static install).
> >
> > Every time I want to install a new server, I need to:
> >
> > 1) Erase the dhcpd lease files, and restart dhcpd, so the new server
> > would get XXX.XXX.XXX.10 for example.
> > 2) Go to /var/lib/systemimager/scripts, edit hosts file and add the
> > image name and XXX.XXX.XXX.10.
> >
> > This has to be done for every server.
>
>
> Just edit /etc/hosts in your image server and define the clients IP and
> hostnames, for example (with three clients):
>
> x.x.x.10 node10
> x.x.x.11 node11
> x.x.x.12 node12
>
> Then run si_clusterconfig -e and define a new host group with these
> clients:
>
> ...
> <group>
> <name>newgroup</name>
> <image>YOUR_IMAGE</image>
> <override>YOUR_IMAGE</override>
> <node>node10-node12</node>
> </group>
> ...
>
> Save and quit (this automatically updates also
> /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/hosts).
>
> And do not use symlinks in /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/ anymore.
>
> Now to install all these clients with YOUR_IMAGE run:
>
> # si_mkclientnetboot --verbose --clients newgroup --netboot
>
>
> > My question is, how I can configure SI to define a pool of DHCPD
> > addresses, and push to them all the correct image? And how I can reset
> > this pool automatically, meaning new servers would replace the
> > previous installed ones (they get a diffrent IP in the end anyway).
>
>
> Define an ip range in /etc/dhcpd.conf on your image server, for example:
>
> ...
> subnet x.x.x.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range x.x.x.1 x.x.x.127;
> option domain-name "mydomain";
> option routers x.x.x.254;
> }
> ...
>
> All the pxebooting clients will get an IP within this range. You can
> also define static entries in /etc/dhcpd.conf, based on clients' mac
> address:
>
> host node10 {
> hardware ethernet AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF;
> fixed-address node10;
> }
>
> All these settings can be made manually or via si_mkbootserver (to
> setup dhcp, tftp, pxe) and si_mkdhcpstatic (to define static entries).
>
> -Andrea
>
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