On 11/3/21 11:49, Jarrod Johnson wrote:
So technically I haven't used xCAT for this either (I've been using
confluent),
Hello, thanks for your answer.
and I've not actually configured satellite myself (using the
corporate ones), but all I did was:
-Add the katello rpm provided by the satellite administrators to the
installation
-Run subscription-manager-register --org=.... --activationkey=base
You did that when/where ? In the kickstart file ? After the initial
install ? What was the pkgdir value of the osimage you were using ?
I can take it as an improvement in confluent to explictly have a
suggested procedure to accomplish this before any package is installed.
Note that confluent already supports full TLS for internal servers, and
you can add 'CAs to trust from the beginning' by putting their pem files
in /var/lib/confluent/public/site/tls/.
Well, my understanding is that the katello-ca-consumer-latest.noarch.rpm
pacakge installation does more than installing the CA. It also setup the
/etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file.
As to why do this instead of foreman it's ultimately a matter of
preference. Note that if you want foreman but want xCAT-style
discovery, then confluent can gather macs for foreman instead of
internal if desired without interfering with the DHCP infrastructure. If
you set net.bootable=1, and pxe boot, discovery is done without sending
any dhcpoffers at all, and then you can:
noderun n1-n100 hammer host create --name {node} .... --mac {net.hwaddr}
....
This sound interesting. I haven't tested confluent yet. How does this work ?
1) node PXE boots
2) satellite provides IP, hostname / confluent provides next-server/filename
3) node boots on a discovery image (like xCAT genesis)
4) ...? where do you run the noderun you mentionned ? How do you chain
to Satellite kickstart ?
For what I understand the answer to my initial post is that in order to
use Satellite kickstart repos instead of DVD.iso, one have to:
a) either PXE boot against Satellite itself (which, on the same vlan
would not coexist peacefully with another (xCAT) dhcp server ?). So this
would mean dropping xCAT (but - see my previous post - some xCAT
features are really important to us)
b) or PXE boot against xCAT/Confluent which would point, instead of
DVD.iso, to a Satellite generated boot media. The latter would imply:
b1) to go all the way to the procedure to build a host (including all
its related Foreman objects such as subnet - even if in the end it is
not used as it would be xCAT/Confluent which would deal with the subnet)
-> I have a hard time on this one. I did not manage to have - but I'm
new to Satellite so I may have missed something - a generic, similar to
DVD.iso install media without faking a node creation
b2) some manual copy/substitution of what pkgdir would point to
So my guess it that in the begining of your answer you implied you went
the usual way of pkdir == DVD.iso, correct ?
Thanks for your help
--
Thomas HUMMEL
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