[katello-devel] Foreman Registration Design

[Bryan Kearney]

On 12/13/2012 05:11 AM, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> 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

Pulling in Ohad.. I was attempting to reflect what Foreman does today. I 
may have gotten things wrong.

-- bk