[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler, findks.cgi, registration, and so forth

[Michael DeHaan]

>>
> this would be very helpful indeed.
> although i suspect having to manually select your install via a menu 
> can get painful when lighting up a bunch of blade systems - if i read 
> this correctly.
> we've been kicking around the idea of polling MAC addresses from our 
> edge switches then having some glue code enter those addy's into 
> cobbler and assign them a specific profile (we usually find ourselves 
> putting all of our render nodes for example on their own edge switch 
> so we don't have to worry about mixed use profiles in the use case).
>
> don't get me wrong though - auto-reg would be huge :)
>

Good deal!

I think you might know about this, but you can also do the following 
trick today that makes life a lot easier than using menus:

cobbler system add --name=default --profile=foo
# power up 500 systems
cobbler system add --name=default --profile=bar
# power up another 500

Coupled with auto-registration that could be pretty slick :)

> -p
>