My solution has been to treat node names as a razor internal. I've rewritten scripts and other interfaces to use metadata as you did to mask the node name. Those scripts handle mapping, so when searching for a particular node to reinstall, you pass in your metadata (hostname, etc) and it finds the correct node number in the background. The user never knows anything about the razor node, which also solves the gap issue you mention.
On Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 3:19:39 PM UTC-6, worldian wrote: > > I am trying to use puppet razor to deploy about 1000 servers, and i > realize that puppet razor gives node names like node1,node2,node3 after a > node is registered. > > > Is there any way to set user-specific node names to these servers, either > before registration or after registration? > > > The reason being : After provisioning all these 1000 servers - and if one > of those servers needed to be re-provisioned later in future - it would be > easier to install using its hostname (OS hostname). > > > Right now - when i run - 'razor nodes'. All i see is a list of node names > such as node1,node2,node3 and mac-addresses. If i have to re-install one of > those 1000 servers - It would be a round about way to find out the > mac-address of that machine and find the nodename of that mac-address to > re-install that node. > > > Also, if i delete few nodes - those node-names will not be reused in > future, which leads to node names like node1,node3,node8... > > > I am able to edit the node metadata - hostname successfully, but i would > like to be able to modify the node name to be the same as the node OS > hostname. > > > Is there any easy way to do this? ( other than writing my own wrapper to > link the mac-addresses with hostnames and node names in CMDB) > > > Why is it that - there is no functionality provided to modify the node > name? since it would resolve most of the above issues. > > > This is a major deal breaker for us, and i would love to know - if someone > found a solution. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "puppet-razor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-razor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
