[katello-devel] Foreman Registration Design

[Miroslav Suchy]

On 12.12.2012 19:26, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/ForemanRegistrationDesign


 > SysAdmin? racks server hardware and notes MAC Address.

When I had to provision HW in past, I never knew the MAC address before 
booting. Probably Dell, IBM or Fujitsu is writing it somewhere on box. 
But the commodity hardware did not have written it on box. And I do not 
recall it on Dell either, but I'm not 100% sure.

What I like on Satellite was, that you can create activation key and 
then assign it to kickstart profile. And you can then boot up machine 
with that kickstart profile:

Ie. tftp record would be:
LABEL rhel60.x86_64.web-server.ks
   KERNEL 
yourhostname.redhat.com::linux-install/rhel-x86_64-server-6/vmlinuz
   APPEND 
initrd=yourhostname.redhat.com::linux-install/rhel-x86_64-server-6/initrd.img 
ks=http://yourhostname.redhat.com/ks/cfg/org/1/label/rhel-x86_64-webserver-6 


And when provisioning machine I would just choose boot from PXE and in 
menu choose label rhel60.x86_64.server.ks and it will be provisioned 
using kickstart profile rhel-x86_64-webserver-6 and use associated 
activation key (which mean i.e. install rhel6 in noninteractive mode, 
install httpd and deploy previously created configuration keys)

Can we add this use case to this Design as well?

Mirek