> I think what you are describing is auto-inventory, seeding Cobbler with > all of the MAC address info it can, and then provisioning later once you > assign them to certain profiles. > > You don't need all the NIC info in Cobbler to provision, certaintly... > folks can also deploy using profile records if they don't want to create > the system records. > The MAC is of course required to pin a specific piece of hardware to a > specific profile without using the menus or the default profile, or > without using a "per-network" profile mapping (cobbler system record > with --ip input in CIDR notation to assign only certain systems to > certain profiles).
Agree, the auto-inventory is a better word. It is an addition to the existing auto-registration and can (if enabled for the system) also be used for manual added entries. The new networking code for bonding requires a MAC address for each NIC. > The inventory probe sounds interesting to me, otherwise improving and > adding to the registration mechanism could be very interesting. > (Especially if it described a bit more about the system maybe in the > comment field, and maybe had options on also registering inventory with > a Smolt server?) We haven't persued any kind of trivial cobbler+smolt > integration in the past though it may be something we can do in the > future. You mean running a smolt-server on the node where the cobbler-server is running? Regards, Peter This e-mail and any attachment is for authorised use by the intended recipient(s) only. It may contain proprietary material, confidential information and/or be subject to legal privilege. It should not be copied, disclosed to, retained or used by, any other party. If you are not an intended recipient then please promptly delete this e-mail and any attachment and all copies and inform the sender. Thank you. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
