[rhn-users] Best Practice for KS Hostname setting

[Andy Ciordia]

Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Andy Ciordia wrote:
> 
> 
>>Otherwise all I see atm are individual KS's for each machine, but that
>>seems self-defeating of having something rollout across many machines.
> 
> 
> You could have a cgi script that fills in the blanks based on
> IP address, e.g.
> 
> <http://ks-server.domain.tld/cgi-bin/ks.cgi?type=db&ip=192.168.168.1>
> 
> The only problem is that you have to type that on the boot: prompt. :)

Yea, that would be a problem since I'd like to stay out of having to 
need to console it if I could.  I'm pondering a %post section that would 
query a server and builds the network files and drags them over so after 
that first reboot it would have the correct identity.

I'm kind of boggled though, if an admin has a floor of machines and and 
wanted to bring them all up from bare metal does everyone just have 
2-200 machines that would be named localhost.localdomain?  It would seem 
that there is a solution for this.. Of course whenever I think there is 
a logical solution, its generally highly illogical ;)

-a

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