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

[Jeff Bachtel]

Michael, could I trouble you to put any thoughts on the utility of this 
RFE into https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043987 ?

Just so RedHat knows there's some community desire for it,

Thanks,

Jeff

On 12/17/2013 05:45 AM, FRANK Michael wrote:
> 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.
>
>     -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>     *Aan:* spacewalk-list at redhat.com <mailto:spacewalk-list at redhat.com>;
>     *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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