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

[Czerak, Jason]

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. 

 

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Jason Czerak