We wrote a Python script using the Cobbler API (not sure whether that's
supported, but it works). I input the details of the system (MAC address,
system name, kickstart profile I want it to use, even which NIC will be the
primary NIC after the system is built {dang you, biosdevname and CNDN}).
After a system is built, we populate the custom info by using python-xlrd and
read it from an Excel spreadsheet. We could even put the MAC into the
spreadsheet and have the Cobbler script read from it, but that one's on down
the list.
We use the commercial product, Satellite, but in principle it should work
largely the same in Spacewalk. You could even write a web frontend for it, I
presume.
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of FRANK Michael
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:46 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk
Hello,
We are also very interested in having a function to allow the predefinition of
systems before kickstarting them. Something similar to the functions in cobbler
web interface would be great.
If it helps to expedite that we could send a RFE.
regards
Michael
Von: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Rick van der Linde
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2013 09:35
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk
In my virtualized only environment where I use spacewalk for provisioning I
manage to do this by a combination of manually configured MAC address for the
virtual machine combined with a DHCP server that provides IP addresses for
virtual machines based on their MAC address. Next to this I configured DNS that
allows me to lookup the address and get the hostname and configure NICs. This
works fine for now, but it would be great to ease this as this takes a
considerable amount of time to setup and an current acceptable amount of time
to manage.
It would be a great idea to address this someway in future developments of
spacewalk or currenltly developed Katello environment.
Rick.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Aan: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>;
Van: Jeff Bachtel
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Verzonden: ma 16-12-2013 22:24
Onderwerp: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk
For provisioning new systems in my existing Spacewalk infrastructure, is
there a better practice way than to run cobbler system add from the CLI?
That is, am I missing a menu option somewhere in Spacewalk to input a
new IP, MAC address, hostname, and Kickstart profile for a host?
If I'm not missing anything and such a menu option does not exist, is it
on the radar as a feature request?
Thanks,
Jeff
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