Tim, I'm not sure if you have the ability in this plant, but if you have a spare machine that has a bunch of unused HD space and can be used as a server (or if one of your existing servers has a bunch of space and capacity on it) then it might be worthwhile setting up a FOG server if everything is on the same network.
Fog is essentially a network-based disk / workstation imaging system. It can be set up to allow workstations to boot from the network (that boot from the NIC option that exists in the bios of most computers) and then you can pull an image from an existing workstation to the server or push an image from the server to workstations. Once that is done you can push that image out to as many other workstations as you wish. It also has options whereby it'll run a post re-image setup where you can tell it things like "for host X, I want the host name to be XXXX and the IP to be XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" and such, and it'll do those post-image tasks. Especially if you are managing a lot of workstations, it is nice - if a problem pops up on a particular workstation, a corrupt or failed hard disk, or an end user just messes around with a particular workstation too much, then you just solve the problem at the workstation end (replace hard disk if that's the issue, for example), log into the FOG server's web interface, give it the command to re-image that particular workstation, and about 10 minutes (and several reboots) later the problem is solved. https://fogproject.org/ Lorne Tyndale > > > Greetings, > > So I want to upgrade our entire plant to Rivendell #.4.1 > which is also going to entail converting from Ubuntu to CentOS7. > > I have 14 workstations to convert. > We have a dedicated Mysql server. > We have a dedicated Audio server using nfs > > So, Since I have one complete CentOS7 machine done and working fine > my thought is 13 hard drives and the dd command. > > editing host name and ip and pypad instances are the rivendell things I can > think of that would need editing. > > Other pitfalls with this idea? > Another possibility is creating an installable distro from the running > system, but not sure that is possible with CentOS, That is what we always > did with Ubuntu. > > Any thoughts appreciated > > Cheers > > > Tim Camp > WZEW-FM<hr>_______________________________________________ > Rivendell-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
