Susan Sohn wrote: > Notes from the meeting have been posted at: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/ai_svc_scenario_mtg_0610.txt > >
I'm concerned about scenario 4 assuming that DHCP servers (and AI servers) would be provided per-subnet. This would be fairly unusual and undesirable in my experience, as it scales poorly in administrative overhead. Does this make any substantive difference in the solution? One thing I'm not grasping from these notes is how a non-global service is converted to be a global service. Or is it there under some other guise? I'm not quite sure I see the rationale for having a reserved name for the global service, though. What does it solve? WRT to DHCP, one thing to consider is how this behaves with non-Solaris DHCP servers (ISC, primarily, though Windows could also be of interest). The "macro" concept referenced here is specific to the Solaris server, though groupings of options are available in ISC and other servers. It would be more implementation-neutral to merely refer to sets of DHCP options here, and consider how we might meet the users on their territory by providing appropriate sample input for other types of servers. Per item 5.3 in the summary: Did you consider providing a user-definable ordering of the manifests, rather than the propsed LIFO order? Dave
