Dave Hatton wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been thinking of developing a patch to add some form of system tags > to cobbler. > > Initially I was thinking of a number of free format fields. > > System_Serial_Number > System_Description > System_Owner > System_Location > > Maybe there are some more? > > > I'm sure this information could help to make the web ui more information? > > I was thinking that moving onwards, maybe koan could check the stored > serial number against that reported by the system to prevent accidental > overwrites?. > > I'm sure there are other possibilities? > > Any thought/suggestions? > > Dave Hatton > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
At first glance, this seems like --ksmeta would be a reasonable place to store these free form attributes. I'm somewhat adverse to making any command (such as cobbler system edit --help) have too many options, and they are already growing kind of long. However I can definitely see value in being able to view that information when looking at system records. Perhaps a new --attributes also with hash storage, preceeded with values set to "" for a few common values, and being able to see these in a tabular editor/view in the webapp? However if these are to be usable in kickstart templates (should they be), it seems like we're essentially doing --ks-meta stuff again. Except those values have a good change of being accidentally cleared on the command line (unless edited with --in-place to just change one value without clearing the rest). This then walks us back in the direction of making seperate fields for each attribute. I'm not sure. (Somewhat off-topic -- a better editor for hash values in the webapp would be a nice thing to have). --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
