Alok, thanks for looking at this !
Jan On 03/02/09 15:53, Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hi Jan, > > This looks like a reasonable approach to me. > > Alok > > On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, jan damborsky wrote: > >> Currently, when Automated Installation is done, it waits for user >> to manually reboot the system. There is a desire to support >> automatic reboot feature, so that the overall process of the >> installation might be hands-off. This requirement is tracked >> by bug 6556. >> >> In order to provide end user with possibility to automatically >> reboot machine after AI is done, I am thinking about approach >> described in proposal below. >> >> Please let me know, if you think it should be modified or different >> approach should be taken. >> >> Thank you very much, >> Jan >> >> >> [1] introduce new element in AI manifest >> >> ... >> <optional> >> <element name="ai_auto_reboot"> >> <data type="boolean"/> >> </element> >> </optional> >> ... >> >> It would be optional - if not specified, machine would not reboot. >> >> [2] If 'ai_auto_reboot' option is provided and set >> to 'true', AI would 'touch' file in /tmp/ directory >> as indicator that auto reboot should take place. >> >> [3] Reboot in AI SMF service >> >> Reboot itself would be done from auto-installer SMF method as the >> last action - after AI engine is done and only if it returned success >> (in order to allow user inspect log files in case installer failed, >> since they might be unaccessible after reboot): >> >> SMF AI start method (/lib/svc/method/auto-installer): >> >> ... >> # Invoke AI engine to install the machine >> $AI_ENGINE -p $AISC_MANIFEST >> ret=$? >> >> if [ $ret -eq 0 ] ; then >> echo "Automated Installation finished successfully" > /dev/msglog >> if [ -f "$AUTO_REBOOT" ] ; then >> echo "Machine will be rebooted now" > /dev/msglog >> /usr/sbin/reboot >> else >> fi >> else >> fi >> >> _______________________________________________ >> caiman-discuss mailing list >> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >>
