Gerhard Hofmann wrote:
@Adam:
Can you give me some more information about "install machines remotely"? This makes me curious, is there a way to use Unattended push-based?

There is a way to use Unattended push-ish based. The process is rather simple. We have a command on our network that will ssh into any of our machines, and run a command on that machine. for example, the ssh command would be: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "shutdown -s -t 0". That shuts down the machine.

Next we send a wake-on-lan packet to the computer, and with the correct bios settings (on Dell 270's), the computer will wake and begin PXE booting. Through the modifications to the config.pl script, the lab computers specific settings are pulled from a mysql database. They go through the entire install process, and then join the domain, ready to be used.

We have it working for some computers right now, via some commands I have written, but by the time I am done with things, we'll be able to reinstall a whole lab, or individual computer by the click of a button on a web page.

I am working on documenting the whole process I have gone through on our internal wiki, but I'd be happy to post the process to Unattended's wiki as soon we get all the kinds worked out.

I hope that helps.

Adam


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