James Harris wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 14:38 +0000, 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? >> > > This would certainly be useful for the way we use Cobbler and Puppet. > > At the moment we use Cobbler kickstart metadata to provide location > information that Puppet uses to set things like DNS server order and > backup server addresses based on the data centre where the host is > located. > > It works, though it's not idea as you can easily forget to provide all > the information required. > > The fields we use are data centre name, rack number and RU range (e.g. > RU17-19). > > James > > ********************************************************************************* > Important Note > This email (including any attachments) contains information which is > confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. If you are not > the intended recipient you must not use, distribute or copy this > email. If you have received this email in error please notify the > sender immediately and delete this email. Any views expressed in this > email are not necessarily the views of AXA-Tech Australia. Thank you. > ********************************************************************************** > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Yeah, I think so, not having the fields overwriteable also makes sense. Can folks come up with a common list of fields that would be useful for this? It concerns me slightly that we are building sort of /another/ inventory system, though someone need not use it if they have another. Plus the advantages (especially when we can do things like "cobbler find" to see what's in what rack (cobbler find already exists as a command), would definitely be worth it. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
