On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Darrell May wrote:
> Similar to other server appliances on the market, this would enhance the > current feature set and allow for SME Servers to be pre-built on various > headless (no video/keyboard) hardware platforms with a preset IP assignment. > Clients then simply connect the box to their network, browse to the > predefined server IP (192.168.1.1) and use the server-manager as a > _single_point_ to complete their server setup. Something very similar is already possible. By using a custom kickstart file it is possible to preconfigure a server at install time. You can create such a kickstart file by making a re-install floppy (*). If you do this correctly, then the system will come up running, and the console can be accesses using SSH over the local network, to change any configuration parameters that need to be reconfigured. > Again, just to be clear, I plan to leave the current console intact but > duplicate the console panels (that make sense to duplicate) in the > server-manager to effect the above _single_point_ of server management. We have considered moving much of the configuration currently done in the console to the web interface. There are still strong arguments that the local network settings be set up via the console (but with an option to preconfigure, for cases such as you envision). > On an initial look at the existing console code, it appears very possible > to accomplish this. > > Question: > - are there any known technical hurdles to overcome or is it simply that no > one has ventured down this path yet? I believe that Jaime has already done something similar. (*) Well you should be able to do so, but I've just found a bug in that code, while investigating the non-US keyboard issue. If I've understood the problem correctly, you can do a custom install using a re-install floppy, but only if you remove images/kickstart/ks.cfg file from the CDROM fileset, and reburn. And if you do that, the CDROM won't boot for a non-custom install. We'll have this fixed for 5.1. -- Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739 -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
