[et-mgmt-tools] Re: et-mgmt-tools Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6

[Michael DeHaan]

Marc Mondragon wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I sort of knew this but wasn't sure completely sure when one can add the
> kopts/kmeta options (profile/system/??).  
Any time.   Should you hack the files in /var/lib/cobbler manually (not 
recommended now that "edit" exists) versus using the edit commands, 
you'd have to run "cobbler sync" to make updates.

As it standards, "cobbler sync" still needs to be run after editing the 
kickstart files or changing /var/lib/cobbler/settings, but otherwise the 
needs for running that command have been greatly reduced.
> The addition of the edit
> command is a nice touch btw.
>
>   
Thanks!
> Marc Mondragon
>  
> Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd.
> 2100 Enterprise Avenue
> Geneva, IL  60134
> marcmo at foxriver.com
>
>
>   
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:11:10 -0400
>> From: Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com>
>> Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] kernel_options in
>> 	/var/lib/cobbler/settings
>> To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools <et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com>
>> Message-ID: <4638B81E.4090603 at redhat.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed
>>
>> Marc Mondragon wrote:
>>     
>>> I know this area of cobbler has changed a bit and I'm trying to
>>>       
> figure
>   
>> the best way to do the following:
>>     
>>> 1. Add serial console settings to this file in order to have them
>>>       
>> appended properly to the tftp boot files.
>>     
>>> 2. Have the serial console setting only apply to server
>>>       
> installations,
>   
>> not workstation installations?
>>     
>> (1)  To do this across the board, you just edit
>> /var/lib/cobbler/settings ... though it sounds like you have something
>> better in mind by (2).
>>
>> (2)   To do this to just some machines, it looks something like
>>     
> this...
>   
>> When adding a cobbler profile, do something like this:
>>
>>         cobbler profile add --name=serverprofilename
>>     
> --distro=distroname
>   
>> --kopts="console=ttyS0,57600"
>>
>> And for the workstation profile, don't add the same "--kopts"...
>>
>>         cobbler profile add --name=workstationprofilename
>> --distro=distroname
>>
>> If you already have profiles you like defined, cobbler allows for
>> editing now, so you can tweak an existing profile to add the serial
>> console magic...
>>
>>         cobbler profile edit --name=serverprofilename
>> --kopts="console=ttyS0,57600"
>>
>> So, any time you provision based on the "serverprofilename" profile,
>> you'll get the serial console, and in other cases, you won't...
>>
>> Hope that helps...
>>
>> --Michael
>>
>>     
>>> Marc Mondragon
>>>
>>> Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd.
>>> 2100 Enterprise Avenue
>>> Geneva, IL  60134
>>> marcmo at foxriver.com
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:12:42 -0400
>> From: "Adam Rosenwald" <thestrider at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] kernel_options in
>> 	/var/lib/cobbler/settings
>> To: "Fedora/Linux Management Tools" <et-mgmt-tools at redhat.com>
>> Message-ID:
>> 	<658267190705020912n55d6a174p5ced5dbc4869e398 at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>>
>> Marc,
>>
>>   You can have separate "workstation" and "server" profiles and, for
>>     
> each,
>   
>> you can specify different --kopts settings.  For instance, to enable
>> serial
>> console redirection on server profile:
>>
>> cobbler profile add --name=servers ... --kopts="<other options>
>> console=ttyS0,9600n8" ...
>>
>> --A.
>>
>> On 5/2/07, Marc Mondragon <marcmo at foxriver.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> I know this area of cobbler has changed a bit and I'm trying to
>>>       
> figure
>   
>> the
>>     
>>> best way to do the following:
>>>
>>> 1. Add serial console settings to this file in order to have them
>>>       
>> appended
>>     
>>> properly to the tftp boot files.
>>> 2. Have the serial console setting only apply to server
>>>       
> installations,
>   
>> not
>>     
>>> workstation installations?
>>>
>>> Marc Mondragon
>>>
>>> Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd.
>>> 2100 Enterprise Avenue
>>> Geneva, IL 60134
>>> marcmo at foxriver.com
>>>
>>>
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