Hi, First, I like the idea of separating the criteria from the manifest itself.
I have a question about binding precedence. Would a manifest named in create-client bind tighter that a manifest named in create-service or add-manifest? Thinking about the add-manifest command, the subject of criteria collisions and binding precedence remains ambiguous. It would be easy to specify multiple manifests using difference criteria that would each be appropriate for a given system. Which manifest would be used? Also, putting the criteria into a finite set of name-value pairs known to the command also seems to impose some restrictions or at least difficulty in adding to the potential criteria for selecting the target system... or is the intent to limit the potential criteria to always be network, memory, architecture and IP addresses? I feel the number of systems involved in the scenarios is too small. In-house we have labs with not tens but hundreds of systems on which we currently deploy OpenSolaris where most (95%) of the systems get one of two "default" manifests selected by architecture and limited to an IPv4 range. This set could be better utilized if the selection criteria could be extended to discern platform, SAN (including iSCSI), storage, and NIC present on the target system when choosing from a set of about ten manifests. I don't know about other labs, but I've never written a manifest [or old jumpstrat profile] for memory size. I've always used memory size to choose appropriately sized disks and compute disk slice sizes. Sundar Yamunachari spake thusly, on or about 07/31/09 18:06: > Hi, > > The proposal to simplify AI manifest by removing criteria manifest > is updated and available at > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/manifest_simplification_proposal_v2. > > The document has more information and user scenarios. Please review > the proposal and provide your feedback. > > Thanks, > Sundar > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss -- ~~~\0/~~~~ Cheers, Jon. {-%] ======== If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten. - Anon. -------- When someone asks you, "Penny for your thoughts," and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny? - G. Carlin (May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Jon_Aimone.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 305 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/caiman-discuss/attachments/20090803/ef218550/attachment.vcf>
