[Freeipa-users] Easy deployment

[James James]

Not yet but can you give me some clues ?

2012/9/27 Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>

>  On 09/25/2012 04:18 PM, Sigbjorn Lie wrote:
>
> On 09/25/2012 12:17 AM, James James wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> we are planning to install 150 freeipa clients and I was wondering if
> there is a way to easily install (from kickstart) nfsv4 client.
>
> I can add host with
>
> # ipa host-add --password=secret
>
> But to get the keytab (host and service), I have to log into the machine,
> launch kinit and get the keytab.
>
> This will be very painful for 150 clients ....
>
> Any hints is welcome ...
>
>
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>  Hi,
>
> I am working on integrating what you are asking for into OneClickKick.
> OneClickKick which is a web based GUI for managing DHCP server and PXE
> booting. The current version can read the host objects from IPA's LDAP, and
> you can use these to generate PXE boot files for kickstarting RHEL/Fedora,
> preseeding Debian/Ubuntu installations, do BIOS upgrades, run LIVE
> environments, etc.
>
> What I have done in the past is to add a line like this to the post
> section of the kickstart:
> /usr/sbin/ipa-client-install --domain="ix.test.com"
> --principal="ipajoinuser" --password="somepassword" -U -f
>
> This is not ideal even though the kickstart is saved in a database and
> only made available dynamically trough a php script to the host that's
> enabled for kickstarting. It is not saved in a text file on the disk. The
> next version will include tighter integration with IPA where a One Time
> Password is set for the host being kickstarted at the time it's enabled for
> kickstarting, and this password is seeded dynamically when the host is
> served it's kickstart file.
>
> The next version will also have the PXE Enrollment boot image updated to
> supporting adding new hosts directly into IPA. The PXE Enrollment is
> support for adding a new host simply to PXE booting it, logging on, and
> giving it a hostname and assigning it with a kickstart profile to load the
> machine directly from the console of the new machine.
>
> Adding of machines directly to IPA from the web UI will also be available
> in the next version. This allows you to do everything from adding the host,
> to selecting the kickstart profile group, and enabling for PXE
> installation/kickstart in 1 step.
>
> It can also search trough the /var/log/messages file to find new hosts
> that's unknown to it's naming sources and directly add these.
>
> You can also select a group of machine to install, so if you have your 150
> machines in one group you can select the entire group for installation.
>
>
> See the project website or contact me for more information:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/oneclickkick/
>
>
>
> Have you looked at Foreman?
>
>
> Regards,
> Siggi
>
>
>
>
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> --
> Thank you,
> Dmitri Pal
>
> Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
> Red Hat Inc.
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