David Boyes wrote:
Anyone heard of cobbler? (no, not the shoe repairman nor the
"deep-dish
fruit dessert with a thick top crust" :)) This one:
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/
Several of our university clients use it for Intel lab machines. Depends
very heavily on DHCP and PXE, but it's pretty slick when you've got it
set up and working.
Having PXE support for s390 would be pretty slick, esp if the "boot
PROM" image could be loaded from a NSS.
I'm new to cobbler, but over the last few weeks I've been working with
the cobbler community to get it working on s390. Eventually cobbler
will be integrated into Satellite, as well as the recently announced
Spacewalk, the open source Satellite:
http://www.redhat.com/spacewalk/
Cobbler has a lot of promise on s390. The immediate goal is to get
reprovisioning working, and the ultimate goal is to get bare metal
provisioning via "PXE" working. The current thought is to write a
*very* simplified PXE client as a REXX exec run at startup. It presents
you with a menu, then based on your choice, uses the z/VM FTP client to
download the correct kernel/initrd from the (cobbler) server.
It's still in the development stages, so feel free to hit me with ideas
and feedback (good or bad of course). Also, a couple of links:
Mailing list:
https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
IRC:
irc.freenode.net, #cobbler
-Brad
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