[Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk

[Brian Collins]

We wrote a Python script using the Cobbler API (not sure whether that's supported, but it works).  I input the details of the system (MAC address, system name, kickstart profile I want it to use, even which NIC will be the primary NIC after the system is built {dang you, biosdevname and CNDN}).   After a system is built, we populate the custom info by using python-xlrd and read it from an Excel spreadsheet.  We could even put the MAC into the spreadsheet and have the Cobbler script read from it, but that one's on down the list.

We use the commercial product, Satellite, but in principle it should work largely the same in Spacewalk.  You could even write a web frontend for it, I presume.

From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of FRANK Michael
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 5:46 AM
To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk

Hello,

We are also very interested in having a function to allow the predefinition of systems before kickstarting them. Something similar to the functions in cobbler web interface would be great.
If it helps to expedite that we could send a RFE.

regards

Michael
Von: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] Im Auftrag von Rick van der Linde
Gesendet: Dienstag, 17. Dezember 2013 09:35
An: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk


In my virtualized only environment where I use spacewalk for provisioning I manage to do this by a combination of manually configured MAC address for the virtual machine combined with a DHCP server that provides IP addresses for virtual machines based on their MAC address. Next to this I configured DNS that allows me to lookup the address and get the hostname and configure NICs. This works fine for now, but it would be great to ease this as this takes a considerable amount of time to setup and an current acceptable amount of time to manage.



It would be a great idea to address this someway in future developments of spacewalk or currenltly developed Katello environment.



Rick.

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Van: Jeff Bachtel <jbachtel at bericotechnologies.com<mailto:jbachtel at bericotechnologies.com>>
Verzonden: ma 16-12-2013 22:24
Onderwerp: [Spacewalk-list] New system provisioning in Cobbler/Spacewalk
For provisioning new systems in my existing Spacewalk infrastructure, is
there a better practice way than to run cobbler system add from the CLI?
That is, am I missing a menu option somewhere in Spacewalk to input a
new IP, MAC address, hostname, and Kickstart profile for a host?

If I'm not missing anything and such a menu option does not exist, is it
on the radar as a feature request?

Thanks,
Jeff

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