I echo Alastair's comments. I've been using a slave cobbler server to handle kicks at two data centers for four years now. Works quite excellently.
--Greg On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 5:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
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