Hi
You are probably best creating a local cobbler slave server. This will
also save doing installs across your wan link. I wrote this recently
that might help:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Speeding%20up%20triggers%20to%20sync%20remote%20cobbler%20servers
Or a vlan that traverses data centers? Install on vlan and the swap
IPs/vlan after build?
Alastair
On 2014-08-15 01:53, Caleb Moniot wrote:
Cobblers,
I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation so I'm hoping some
others in the cobbler community can lend me the benefit of their
experience in this scenario.
I'm in a environment where I don't have control over the DHCP
configuration. To get around this I setup cobbler and used dnsmasq's
proxy-dhcp feature. This has been working great but now we've grown
beyond our current server room and have added a new building with a
site-to-site link. The servers I need to kickstart to are across this
link. Everything's routed so I can access the systems (physical, VM
hosts, etc) normally when they have and OS. The problem is that my
cobbler server now can't hear their DHCP requests so they don't pxe
boot.
For the time being I'm using the buildiso feature of cobbler to create
an ISO that contains all the system entries for the servers across the
link and using that to boot them for kickstarting. This gets them
kickstarted but we're in a testing environment so this process will be
done frequently (sometimes multiple times per day). Manually
booting, selecting the correct system entry, then detaching the ISO
once complete will quickly become cumbersome when kickstarting lots of
systems.
So far what's I've considered is:
* Direct connect from cobbler server to remote site.
* Mirrored cobbler server at remote site.
Are there any other features of cobbler that I could leverage to solve
this problem or does anyone else have recommendations from their
experience in a similar situation?
Sincerely,
Caleb Moniot
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