Monitoring kickstart install status

[Chun Tat David Chu]

Hi Hugh,

We have many machines that we will be building, so we are hoping to automate
the process of monitoring the status of the OS.

Spawning a script and monitoring 'install.log' is an option.  Another
thought would be monitoring the anaconda.log.

I notice the log prints the following....
anaconda.log:21:22:31 INFO    : moving (1) to step partitionobjinit
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO    : moving (1) to step autopartitionexecute
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO    : moving (1) to step partitiondone
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO    : moving (1) to step bootloadersetup
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO    : moving (1) to step networkdevicecheck
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO    : moving (1) to step reposetup
anaconda.log:21:22:34 INFO    : moving (1) to step basepkgsel
anaconda.log:21:22:35 INFO    : moving (1) to step postselection
anaconda.log:21:22:44 INFO    : moving (1) to step install
anaconda.log:21:22:44 INFO    : moving (1) to step enablefilesystems
anaconda.log:21:23:48 INFO    : moving (1) to step migratefilesystems
anaconda.log:21:23:48 INFO    : moving (1) to step setuptime
anaconda.log:21:23:49 INFO    : moving (1) to step preinstallconfig
anaconda.log:21:23:49 INFO    : moving (1) to step installpackages
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO    : moving (1) to step postinstallconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO    : moving (1) to step writeconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO    : moving (1) to step firstboot
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO    : moving (1) to step instbootloader
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO    : moving (1) to step writeksconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO    : moving (1) to step writeregkey
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO    : moving (1) to step setfilecon
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO    : moving (1) to step copylogs

It looks like if I monitor these steps then I might be able to get a better
estimate of the installation progress.

What do you think?  Any thought?

Thanks,

David

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Hugh Brown <hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu> wrote:

>
>
> On 05/03/2011 04:34 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am hoping to run a python script in the background during %pre to
>> monitor
>> the kickstart install status.  My script will periodically send status to
>> a
>> server somewhere within LAN and report the current installation status.
>>
>> Running a python script in %pre and sending status to a remote server is
>> the
>> easy part but I am not sure what to monitor to retrieve the kickstart
>> install status.
>>
>> One thought I have is to monitor the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log and
>> compare the number of packages installed and the number of packages
>> specified in the ks.cfg and get a rough estimate of the kickstart install
>> status.
>>
>> I am not sure if this is a correct way to do or there's a better to do so.
>>
>> Please let me know if you've any suggestion or thought.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> - David
>>
>
> My memory says that the install.log is actually in /tmp/install.log. After
> the installation is finished it is copied to /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.
>
> For fedora systems, I enabled sshd and require a password:
>
> sshpw --username=root  XXXXXXXX  --plaintext
>
> If I want to check status, I ssh in and look.  If I don't, there's a script
> that will email me when it has finished.
>
> On RH5 systems, I enabled vnc and would use vncviewer to connect and check
> progress.
>
> Otherwise, watching the number of packages installed in install.log works.
>
> Hugh
>
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