Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> Corey Osman wrote:
>>     
>>> I could probably add the following when I get a chance since I know
>>> IPMI.
>>>
>>> cobbler-register --use-ipmi=<IP of server>
>>>
>>>       then have in the settings a default username/password for connecting
>>> to IPMI
>>>
>>> It  would then return all the variables and such.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> I had considered --extra-opts that would take all the other opts that
>> XMLRPC can take.   We could do that (at least for the scalar options).
>>
>> I also forgot to tell it to save the kickstart arguments from
>> /proc/cmdline (if that flag, say --include-kopts is used).
>>
>> --Michael
>>     
>
> What is the list of things that cobbler would need to know.. would it
> be like what 'facter' gives off?
>
> My network,
> My CPU,
> My motherboard
> My mom's maiden name
>
>   

More like anything someone would want to force feed down through 
templating.   The IPMI case is something that can't be auto-discovered, 
for instance.

But yeah, we should look at facter and see what it can mine.

Func could use some of the same data, so eventually having a Python 
version of something like that could be helpful.

Right now we are grabbing network info from rhpl.eththool, and rhpl is 
available for Debian (for instance), but is probably /not/ intended to 
be highly portable.

Possible future subproject :)

I think I'd want keep it simple for starters though and just have a way 
to push extra variables in from the command line.

--Michael





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