[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler usage survey / needs

[Karanbir Singh]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Demetri Mouratis wrote:
>> On 11/28/06, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Two fold email:
>>>
>>> Cobbler's reached a point where are there places I _could_ take it,
>>> though I'm trying to figure out which are the most important.    If
>>> there's any features that you would really like to have related to
>>> provisioning/kickstart/etc, I'd like to hear about them.    There is a
>>> rough list I've been keeping at:
>>>
>>> http://hg.et.redhat.com/hg/emd/applications/cobbler?f=d9209042c5d6;file=TODO 
>>>
>>
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> I'm not sure this is what you are looking for but here goes.  My big
>> ticket item would be a web UI that would keep track of "diffs" between
>> existing repo/repos and my "subscribed" systems.  You may be familiar
>> with a proprietary solution from certain Linux distro.  Some subset of
>> that solution would be fine for me.
>>
>> Thanks.
> 
> As in, say, RHN?  :)
> 
> This is outside the bounds of cobbler's scope.   Namely, cobbler's role 
> stops after kickstarting -- it doesn't keep track of OS's once installed.
> This isn't to say folks can't benefit from having repo-oriented tools 
> that are useful to Fedora users and the like, however.
> 

fwiw, over the next few weeks I intend to look at some puppet+cobbler 
integration, which might solve the first part of this issue.

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