[Spacewalk-list] Provisioning Questions?

[Wojtak, Greg]

I'm hoping someone can help me out just with understanding a couple things with bare metal provisioning.

Our provisioning set up is such that we have a VLAN/subnet dedicated to provisioning.  We are using a PXE set up.  The new server powers on, gets an address via DHCP from the server and is then forwarded to the spacewalk server, where the PXE menu is displayed.

I guess the part that's confusing me is this: even though we are using DHCP for the initial OS load, we assign all of our servers static IP addresses and host names in DNS.  We've got the kickstart 'network' directive set to use DHCP for now so we can get an IP address assigned on boot after the OS is installed.  After this is complete, we will move the host into it's new VLAN after changing it's networking information.

I'm trying to figure out if there is a more dynamic way of doing this other than duplicating a kickstart profile for every single bare metal host we provision (ie, each profile would be identical with the exception of the network directive, which would have the appropriate hostname and ip address configured).

At a bare minimum, I'd like to at least be able to tell the new server what it's hostname is going to be so that when it registers with spacewalk it doesn't show up as 'unknown' as the host name.

Thanks in advance!

Greg