Here is what I'm thinking of implementing in the AI engine as far as dry run functionality goes -
- Parse and validate the manifest obtained from the AI webserver - Set up installation parameters based on the information in the manifest - Initiate target discovery to either select a target device specified in the manifest or pick a default target - Initiate target instantiation in dry run mode to do some sanity checking - Print out the installation parameters such as target device, IPS repo name/port, list of packages to be installed Note that the IPS repo won't be contacted as part of this process so if there are problems with name resolution, etc. the dry run won't catch those. Would this be sufficient for test purposes? Alok
