Hi,
I've posted this elsewhere but thought the idea might be useful to
Spacewalk.
Have been thinking about how to eliminate some of the key-presses in our
Satellite kickstart installs and came up with the following:
I wondered if it would add any useful functionality to be able to create a
boot.kernel.org-style image on the Spacewalk/Satellite server. The
resultant image would then boot a system and go direct to the Spacewalk
server for instructions. I know it's a basic copy of PXE booting, but it
allows this functionality to exist in a few key areas.
1. Deploying to VMware machines. I could create a template with this boot
image on. Firing up a machine created from this template would head
direct for the Spacewalk server for provisioning. PXE isn't the default
boot method for a VMware guest. Using an image like this would get around
having to configure the machine to boot into BIOS and then tweak the BIOS
settings to boot PXE first.
2. Situations where PXE is not permitted. No - there aren't many. Or so
I thought. When adding the PXE settings to your corporate DHCP servers
isn't permitted, you can be left high and dry when trying to provision new
machines. An ISO image to boot from that heads directly to the Spacewalk
server for menu etc would remove the task of having to alter syslinux
ISO's whenever a new kickstart is created, for example.
The value-add would be that both these scenarios would only need to be
done once (barring a change of hostname for the Spacewalk server). All
the logic, kickstarts, menu system (if wanted) stay on the Spacewalk
server.
Would this be at all useful to Spacewalk or have I missed a trick?
Cheers
Duncan Innes | Linux Architect | Virgin Money
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