Hi,
I have managed to change AI sh support scripts to support FTP protocol
and verified that it works without any changes on client. Basicaly only
thing that is changed is port number and replaced http:// with ftp://.
client is using wget so no need for change on client side. adding diffs
of /usr/lib/installadm scripts
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# diff -w create-client.bak create-client
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>
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< DIRNAME="/usr/lib/installadm"
---
> DIRNAME=`dirname $0`
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< if [ "${PROTOCOL}" != "HTTP" ]; then
< echo "${myname}: Valid protocols are HTTP and NFS."
< if [ "${PROTOCOL}" = "NFS" ]; then
< echo "${myname}: NFS protocol is not supported at this time,"
---
> case ${PROTOCOL} in
> HTTP) ;;
> FTP) ;;
> NFS) echo "${myname}: NFS protocol is not supported at this time,"
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< PROTOCOL="HTTP"
< fi
< exit 1
< fi
---
> PROTOCOL="HTTP" ;;
> *) echo "${myname}: Valid protocols are HTTP, FTP and NFS." ;;
> esac
# diff -w installadm-common.bak installadm-common
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> FTP_PORT=21
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< HOST_IP=`getent hosts ${hname} | nawk '{ print $1 }`
---
> HOST_IP=`getent hosts ${hname} | head -n 1 | nawk '{ print $1 }`
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> PROTO="http://";
> PORT=$HTTP_PORT
> case ${PROTOCOL} in
> HTTP) PROTO="http://";
> PORT=$HTTP_PORT;;
> FTP) PROTO="ftp://";
> PORT=$FTP_PORT;;
> *) ;;
> esac
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< printf "http://${IMAGE_IP}:${HTTP_PORT}"; >> $Menufile
---
> printf "${PROTO}${IMAGE_IP}:${PORT}" >> $Menufile
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< printf "http://${IMAGE_IP}:${HTTP_PORT}"; >> $Menufile
---
> printf "${PROTO}${IMAGE_IP}:${PORT}" >> $Menufile
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It is possible then to boot to AI through ftp. ftp server has to be
properly configured for anonymous login and started. We use ftp as it is
better for serving large files than http when there is high traffic on
production machine.
This would be nice to have in new version of AI.
