[et-mgmt-tools] Pending support for multiple NICs in cobbler/koan (FYI)

[Matthias Saou]

Michael DeHaan wrote :

[...]
> I wanted to bring this up now for those that had an idea
> how they thought multiple NICs might work from a user perspective to 
> speak up if this really wouldn't work for them.

Sounds all great! I've only got one question.

This is exactly what I wanted :

cobbler system add --name=test1234 --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF 
[--ip=192.168.1.50] [--hostname=test12345.example.com] 
[--virt-bridge0=xenbr0]
                                [--mac1=...] [--ip1=...] 
[--hostname1=...] [--virt-bridge1=xenbr1]

But will it be possible to have koan install the system using xenbr1?

koan --server=cobbler.example.org --virt --system=test1234
--virt-bridge=xenbr1

Would this get the system and its two NICs from the cobbler server,
while telling koan to use xenbr1 to install the system?

In my setups, I basically have Xen guests with eth0 as the public
interface and eth1 as the private interface, and I'd prefer having
cobbler/dhcpd only run on the private LAN.

> Another topic -- Earlier there was the discussion of having overrides 
> for things like the virtual mac address in koan.   Given the complexity 
> of all of the above, and wanting to keep things simple and centrally 
> managed, this is most likely not going to happen as it would 
> overcomplicate the model a bit too much.   Again, these are things that 
> are easily
> enough expressed in cobbler.

I only wanted to override the MAC address in koan because it was
randomly generating it instead of getting the one I configured in
cobbler (not as the system name).
It might be interesting to override the MAC address when using a
profile instead of a system, though...

Thanks again for all your great work :-)

Matthias

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