Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Aaron Peeler
Sure. Basically both of these are working with an existing campus environment which prevents remote root login over ssh. More detailed answers inline On 3/1/10 1:52 PM, Liz Wendland wrote: Hi Aaron, Thanks for your excellent description of how this should work. That is very helpful. I hope

Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Liz Wendland
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your excellent description of how this should work. That is very helpful. I hope you don't mind a couple more questions: * Why are there two SSL ports required? For Linux at least I believe that sshd can be restarted without severing current connections. * Why is the

Re: Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Aaron Peeler
Hi Liz, Just to clarify there are two things mentioned here that I'd like to separate. One is the provisioning of physical machines, this would include using xcat.pm or some other provisioning module to load an image, capture an image and broker access. Today we've only done/supported xCAT,

Physical Machine Reservations

2010-03-01 Thread Liz Wendland
Hi, I know that the ability to reserve physical machines using VCL exists. " VCL can also broker access to standalone machines such as a lab computers on a university campus." I see there is a provisioning module - Lab.pm. Are there any instructions on how to get this set up? Why is a "VC