Hi Nirlay, Cobbler has the potential to address your needs but it's important to spell out the steps required to make it happen.
Usually folks do this sort of thing by dhcp client identifiers (MAC OUI, dhcp options, etc.) and have the appropriate next server and filenames set for tftp. That's fairly simple to do. Done on a hardware serial number, hmm? I'm not sure how'd you do that with Cobbler/Ansible/PXE/or any of the others without the ability to first have the system boot an OS. Perhaps you could describe your vision in my specific details? Cheers, Harry On 10/27/14 12:52 PM, Nirlay Kundu wrote: > We are looking at overall orchestrating, including automatic hardware > installation, image download and bootup. We need to support IPv6 in > addition to IPv4, and discover hardware configuration and capabilities > if possible. I want to be able to put up any X.86/ARM system, switches > and routers, turn them up, have them connected directly to the network, > discover them by management plane, download the appropriate image, have > them boot up from the downloaded OS and report success back to the > network. That is, zero-touch hardware bringup. That could be done based > on a hardware serial number or some form of identifier to a particular > image. Would you recommend Cobbler for this kind of operation ? > > > > What would be the benefit compared to plain PXE boot or Ansible or > Openstack Ironic/TripleO ? > > > > Thanks > > Nirlay > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
