On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 07:38:49 -0500, Gary Algier <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any way to get cobbler to automatically define eth0 with MAC address > and IP address from the getent functions? > > In our environment we have another system setup as the DHCP and DNS server. > When we populate its information it also defines the MAC in LDAP. The system > we have cobbler running on could do this: > ip=$(getent hosts reptar.example.com | awk '{print $1}') > mac=$(getent ethers reptar.example.com | awk '{print $1}') > Is there any way to get cobbler to default to this for eth0? > > (Actually the MAC address would need to be editted a little in that cobbler > does not like MACs like 0:50:56:82:0:e and getent zero suppresses). > > Yes I could write a cobbler-add script that would front end the cobbler > command, but my goal is to make cobbler web be easy to use. > > I see that there are methods to run snippets to build the ks file, etc. so I > could do all sorts of things later in the process, but is there any way to > get > code to run at "system add" time?
You would need to write custom code to do this. We don't currently have any way of doing this. -- Scott Henson Red Hat CIS Operator WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
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