On Jun 8, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Scott Henson wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 14:59:34 -0700, Jeremy Hansen <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I'd like to use the reporting feature in cobbler.  Is there any 
>> documentation for build_report_email.template?  There's some information I 
>> would like to include that isn't present in the default template.  I'm 
>> looking for information such as disk, mount info and link status info.  How 
>> can I include this?
> 
> Looks like only the ip address of the host is available.  I don't know
> how much of what you are looking for is available to cobbler when it
> sends this report.  It is mainly a notification that the install has
> finished, not a catalog of the host.
> 
> Is the above information all you are looking for about the host (disks,
> mounts, link status)?  What are you hoping to accomplish with this
> information?  I'm interested if we could support your use case in some manner.
> 
> -- 
> Scott Henson
> Red Hat CIS Operator
> WVU Alum BSAE/BSME

The point of wanting this information is to give us early warning signs of 
issues with the install.  Not so much anything with cobbler but more so that 
perhaps the wrong profile was used for whatever machine it is that is being 
installed.  With this report, we can quickly see if the right partition scheme 
was used or if there's a link status problem (it came up using 10M, half duplex 
instead of 1G full), etc.

I could obviously just build a script to send this information when the machine 
boots, but I just thought there was a possibility that cobbler could support 
these functions out of the box.

Thanks!
-jeremy

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