[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler + %pre and %post in kickstart

[Harry Hoffman]

Hi,

If you find a way to do this outside of the RAID bios I would be very
interested.

There are utilities to manage the raid once the OS is installed but I
believe it's more basic stuff (i.e. check status, list containers, show
hot-swap).

If these utilities could fully managed the raid (i.e. create/delete
containers) then you could potentially build these utilities into the boot
images are provision that way ( no idea if it's possible).

Cheers,
Harry


> Hello,
>
> I'm curious to know how people deal with pre-install steps like
> configuring hardware RAID arrays, or post-install things like
> installing server-specific non-Red Hat packages, system setting
> tweaks, etc, during kickstart.  Is kickstart's %pre and %post the best
> way to do this, or does Cobbler have anything up its sleeve to do this
> differently?  It seems like profiles or even perhaps triggers could be
> useful, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to accomplish this
> would be.
>
> To illustrate my point, say I have 100 Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers all
> requiring the same base Red Hat ES 4 installation:  50 need to be
> configured with hardware RAID 5 and Apache installed in addition to
> the base OS, 30 need to be configured with hardrware RAID 10 and
> MySQL, and 20 need to be configured with hardware RAID 1 and
> Webalizer.  Obviously, I don't want to manually configure the RAID
> arrays prior to provisioning them if I can avoid it.  Provided Dell
> has a tool that runs under linux that can configure the hardware RAID
> controller *and* I can associate a MAC address to a required RAID
> config and additional packages, what is the best way to do both the
> pre-install and the post-install steps?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> Mike
>
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