<hr> <ul><li>From: Máirín Duffy <duffy redhat com></li><li>To: "Discussions about Red Hat Network (<a href="http://rhn.redhat.com">rhn.redhat.com</a>)" <rhn-users redhat com></li><li>Subject: Re: [rhn-users] bare metal provisioning</li> <li>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:46:12 -0400</li></ul> <hr> <pre style="margin: 0em;">>Hi Michael, Michael Barrett wrote: </pre><blockquote style="border-left: 0.2em solid rgb(85, 85, 238); margin: 0em; padding-left: 0.85em;"><tt>While using RHN I don't see in the tool where I can control the service </tt><tt>processors of my hardware in order to achieve bare metal provisioning. </tt><tt>Is that something I need to do outside of the tool after I setup my </tt><tt>kickstart template within the tool? </tt></blockquote><tt>>You'll either need to set up a pxe server to work with the Satellite </tt><tt>server or create and use custom boot discs [2] to achieve >baremetal </tt><tt>provisioning. Please see the following section of our reference guide </tt><tt>for more information about this: </tt><pre style="margin: 0em;"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s2-sm-system-kickstart.html">>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s2-sm-system-kickstart.html</a> > >~m > ></pre><tt>>[1] </tt><tt><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s4-system-ks-PXE.html">http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s4-system-ks-PXE.html</a> </tt><tt>[2] </tt><tt><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s4-system-ks-ISO.html">>http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/satellite/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite-5.0.0/html/Reference_Guide/s4-system-ks-ISO.html</a> All of that just talks about PXE boot and kickstart. To say something does bare metal provisioning implies that the software can remotely trigger a boot on the hardware without an OS installed with the intent to install an operating system. That it has service processor knowledge. (ie) it logs into the service process and issues the correct boot command when the user in the application (RHN satellite) selects that target (the service processor) and issues an OS provisioning job. Does RHN Satellite do any of that? Or does it expect me to remotely trigger the PXE boot via the service processor outside of it? </tt>