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

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
>>>
>> 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
>>
>
>

That of course should end with:

cobbler system remove --name=default

Otherwise, it would be rather suprising.  When you have the "default" 
system record engaged the menus do not fire up.

--Michael