[Spacewalk-list] Feature request - Storage of Remote Commands and hardware detection

[Devan Goodwin]

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On Sun, 31 May 2009 17:03:49 -0500
"Czerak, Jason" <jason.czerak at jostens.com> wrote:

> I'd like to spark the discussion about storing remote commands with in
> Spacewalk along side Configuration files as well as some sort of
> hardware detection.
> 
> I'd imagine remote commands would be a subset of configuration files
> since they could and should be a dependency. 
>  
> For example, if my servers are VMware servers. I would need to not
> only install VMwareTools rpm, I need to execute
> VMware-config-tools.pl. After a kernel upgrade, the
> VMware-configu-tools.pl would need to be executed again. As a work
> around, I plan on storing templated remote commands on Sharepoint.
> 
> As for hardware detection, one could write more complex and generic ks
> scripts. If there could be a way to have the KS script tell Spacewalk
> a few details about the server it's installing, we can customize on
> te fly a few extra configuration and package channels. 
> 
>  
> 
> --
> Jason Czerak
> 

I quite like this idea, although probably storage of scripts (as small
as you like) rather than individual commands. We've already got API
calls for scheduling a script to run and coming back later to check for
the results, as well as some nice UI components for storing and
re-using scripts in kickstarts. It would be nice to unify the two and
allow the scheduling of those scripts to be run outside kickstart as you
suggest. Might even be some room to integrate with cobbler snippits too.

IMO the pieces are probably already in place, just needs a bit of UI
love and possibly some changes for the existing kickstart script
edit/storage to make it a little more generic, though I doubt there'd be
much.

Cheers,

Devan

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  Devan Goodwin <dgoodwin at redhat.com>
  Software Engineer     Spacewalk / RHN Satellite
  Halifax, Canada       650.567.9039x79267
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