Dave Miner wrote: > 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? Primarily clarity. We use a reserved name because we want the global service to be *very* easy to establish initially and to be obvious when used in other operations e.g. adding a manifest.
None of the scenarios suggested the need to convert a non-global service to global so there was no discussion. It seems straight forward to start with a standardized global service and modify it as needed. > > 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? This wasn't discussed in the meeting; it was my addition. I did think about user-definable ordering. Ordering is easy with a list in a GUI, but lacking that probably a form of "put x before y" where the base would be the default manifest, whether defined or not. Frank
