Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Jan, > > Jan Damborsky wrote: >> Hi Sundar, >> >> looking at the document, I would like to ask about scalability aspect, >> since it doesn't seem to be mentioned there. >> Since some of configuration parameters are to be defined one per AI >> client >> (e.g. hostname, IP address), how the scalability issue will be >> addressed ? > Scalability needs to be addressed. we could discover some of the machine > specific > configuration. For example, we can use the same IP address used during > the installation if the IP > address is not provided and use DNS to get its host name.
We might consider a default configuration behavior that implements a sort of discovered static configuration as a way to provide this sort of scalability. Perhaps that's really a default derivation scheme, per the points below about using derived manifests. Dave >> >> I would assume that derived manifest project [1] could address this >> problem, >> but it seems to explicitly talk only about parameters in AI manifest, >> not about system configuration part. > Derived manifest could be a solution. We do not have a design document > for the > derived manifest. We could use the same method to derive machine specific > configuration. We will revise the document once we have a firm handle on > the > derived manifest design. > > Thanks, > Sundar >> >> Thank you, >> Jan >> >> [1] >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/DerivedManifests/ >> >> >> >> sundar Yamunachari wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> The design proposal to setup system configuration parameter with >>> installer (in particular Automated Installer) is available at >>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/system_config_design.txt. >>> >>> Please review and give your feedback. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sundar >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
