[Spacewalk-list] Provisioning, kickstart profiles, cobbler system records

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Monday 31 Jan 2011 22:26:53 Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> Dne 31.1.2011 17:20, Michael Gliwinski napsal(a):
> > And a second question is, even if there's no UI in Spacewalk for that
> > now, could I still do provisioning that way by creating system records
> > on command line before kickstarting a host?
> 
> Spacewalk and cobbler is one way road.
> 
> All kickstarts you create and edit in Spacewalk is copied to cobbler.
> But if you create some record directly in cobbler you can still
> kickstart systems using it, but you are unable to manage such kickstart
> records with Spacewalk.

Thanks Mirek.  So does that mean that Spacewalk doesn't use system records for 
anything, even if they exist?

I was thinking about maintaining kickstart profiles in Spacewalk and using 
cobbler command line to maintain per-host variables in system records.  Do you 
think that could work?

Thanks!


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