William, I forgot to add, that I typically install koan to do the self-registration, and I do it through the kickstart/snippets.
Let me know what kind of errors that your having, and Ill see what I can do to help. Respectfully, Scott ******************************************************* Scott Mattan 【マッタン・スコット】 NISCOM Inc. Software Service Solution Department Tel:03-6681-4305 / Mobile:080-4223-2306 ******************************************************* On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Scott Mattan <[email protected]> wrote: > William, > > Sorry I am late to respond.. and I also further apologize as I seem to > have misread your request.. I missed the part about koan, unfortunately > I've never used koan to provision in my setup, I like you had too many > issues getting it working right. Instead I used scripts that acted > directly with ESXI CLI, kvm (virt-install), etc. to boot new virtual > machines, which would then install the default profile via pxe boot, self > register with cobbler and then reinstall to the appropriate OS/settings > (based on settings within the default profile, and or script, which I > changed depending on the install.) > > I looked through my files, and I have some of my scripts, but I don't have > any of the cobbler settings themselves. > > If possible could you provide the output for any errors that you are > getting? I could help you take a look (it would also be nice to finally get > around to learning koan... :) ). > > Respectfully, > > Scott > > (((FYI, (although it's not related to your issue) I am also attempting to > build a potential upgrade to cobbler that will hopefully allow > OS/Configuration for rack-scale installations based on switch/switchport of > the installed server,))) > > ******************************************************* > Scott Mattan 【マッタン・スコット】 > NISCOM Inc. > Software Service Solution Department > Tel:03-6681-4305 / Mobile:080-4223-2306 > ******************************************************* > > > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:24 PM, William Muriithi < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Scott, >> >> >> > I haven’t used cobbler with ESXI in a while, so I don’t exactly remember >> > what the parameters were... but I know that you need to have a couple of >> > kernel options set in your profile. I had my setup completely >> automated, >> > but it got erased when my section got reorganized. Ideally you should >> be >> > able to press the power-button and have your OS installed, updated, and >> > setup for you. Admittedly, what I mostly worked with was kvm or >> bare-metal, >> > but I had some ESXI servers in the loop as well. >> >> Thanks for that info. It mean its well supported on ESXI, I just have >> to figure out how to do it >> >> > >> > Let me see if I have any notes from left over from that project. In the >> > meantime if anyone else knows the answer off the top of their head >> please >> > let us know. >> > I am at work right now, so it might be ~7 hours or so before I can get >> back >> > to you, but since we are likely in different time-zones, I'm sure that >> isn't >> > a problem. >> > >> No problem Scott, take your time. I really appreciate your effort and >> look forward to your notes. >> >> I am curious, where one should run the command below, it looks like on >> the ESXI, reading between lines, but none of the articles online >> highlight that explicitly. >> >> koan --virt --server=cobbler.eng.example.com --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64 >> --virt-type=vmware --virt-name=lithium.eng.example.com >> >> If its on ESXi, how do you install koan to virtual machine thats don't >> have a operating system yet? I have a system with the virtual machine >> already setup on cobbler side as follows: >> >> cobbler system add --name=lithium --hostname=lithium.eng.example.com >> --gateway=192.168.20.168 --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64 >> --dns-name=lithium.eng.example.com --mac=00:50:56:9e:fe:1a >> --ip-address=192.168.20.3 --subnet=255.255.255.0 --status=production >> --interface=em1 --static=1 >> >> Regards, >> William >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> > >
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