quick comment for completeness... the built-in DNS name for
configuration using .parms files is plural:

sunray-config-servers

I'm sure that's what Bob meant. :)

On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 15:33 -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote:

> Brian Knoblauch wrote:
> >> I rather not rely on the Sunray Server's dhcpd for my normal boxes, I 
> >> need DDNS and I need all my "normal" boxes to work when I take my
> >>     
> > Sunray 
> >   
> >> Server to demonstrations.
> >>     
> >
> >     I run my SunRays on the same network as everything else, and just let
> > the DHCP server in the router server up the addresses.  I don't setup
> > the SunRay server DHCP server.  The SunRays still auto-discover the
> > server just fine (since they're in the same broadcast domain).
> >   
> 
> This'll work just fine, as Brad suggested (use "utadm -L on").  But, it 
> won't
> manage firmware automatically (you could do something like put "utfwload -l"
> into a cron job to do this), and it won't enable client syslogging 
> (unfortunately,
> the only way to do this is still to use DHCP, but client syslogging 
> rarely shows
> anything helpful anyway so this isn't critical).
> 
> Slightly fancier is to either set your DNS IPs for "sunray-config-server" to
> resolve to your Sun Ray servers (especially helpful if you have your Sun 
> Rays
> on subnets remote to your server), or to set DHCP Option 66 to point to 
> them.
> Then, the .parms file will get TFTP'd and will control your firmware 
> updates.
> 
> -Bob
> 
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Brad Lackey
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