On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13.06.2012 [13:35:01 -0700], Jake Xu wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've been wondering if there is any way for me to query a Cobbler server >> and to find out if a system installation is completed. >> I know that I can use the command "cobbler status" to get some ideas, but >> not sure if there is any equivalent API call. >> >> If there is, is it possible to get the percentage/stage of installation >> progress? > > Roughly speaking -- no. Keep in mind that Cobbler, per se, doesn't track > installation status, it just is able to initiate the booting via > DHCP and control how the installation proceeds via kickstarts. But there > is no guarantee that you as the end-user use a particular > kickstart/snippet. > > If you set pxe_just_once in settings, then you can poll on > netboot-enabled is true to indicate installation is ongoing. But it > doesn't strictly indicate success or failure. > > Percentages would be even harder and is arguably more vague and depends > on what you're installing, etc. > > That all being said, you could probably setup some kickstart snippets to > write to a log file on the installer server that indicates the progress > stage-wise of the installation?
If you're using a RHEL-based system, there is anamon for this: http://cobbler.github.com/manuals/2.2.3/5/Anaconda-monitoring.html _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
