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

[Pablo Iranzo Gómez]

	Hi
	This auto-registration feature seems not to work if using koan to
replace a machine, as it relies on MAC and:

	koan -r downloads the file using wget to store it, so no mac info
sent, machine would be correctly deployed, but no ks request will be made
by anaconda, so no autoregistration.

	wget in kickstart profile, also, doesn't send mac, so this will
not register the machine.

	Solution:

	¿Make Koan to always use http://cobblerserver as the ks path
instead of downloading to disk?

	Regards
	Pablo

PD: I like this idea of auto-registration





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On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> 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
>
>
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