[katello-devel] Foreman Registration Design

[Ohad Levy]

----- Original Message -----
| On 12/13/2012 08:52 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
| >
| >
| > ----- Original Message -----
| > | On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:11:04AM +0100, 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.
| > | >
| > Right! this is exactly where the auto discovery work we doing now,
| > where an unknown machine boots into
| > a mini OS, that reports the inventory value back to foreman, so
| > later on (or automatically) you can
| > approve that host and get it rebooting and auto building.
| >
| > of course that VM has no issue like that (as the mac is auto
| > assigned while creating the vm).
| >
| >
| > | > 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?
| > |
| > | So basically the way it works is for a particular timeframe, you
| > | are
| > | making your TFTP server to serve one same configuration
| > | (kickstart)
| > | for
| > | all machines, right?
| > |
| > | Well, this can only work for small companies. It's more Foreman
| > | related
| > | question. I think you can do it with Foreman right now (manually
| > | editing
| > | the template).
| >
| > You can do it now, Foreman supports Hostgroup based deployment (aka
| > profiles)
| >
| > it does not manage the machine afterwards (with regard to puppet
| > certificates etc, as there is no hostname etc).
| 
| In this case, you would need to manually register the machine
| afterwards... yes?

Yes, but, hostnames etc are always an issue, most people i know simply trash it and reinstall.

AFAIK, most people copy paste the mac address (they boot it once/ into bios etc, capture the mac and edit the host in foreman)
| 
| -- bk
| 
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