Hi,We've already run into some of this in-house. Our labs have started deploying the DHCP server that comes with S11 as the "standard," but we have many more devices that use DHCP in our labs that are not S11 clients.
Now we're having to find ways to not accidentally clobber what installadm does to the default config file when we make additions for other devices.
We also have the fact that although we're using DHCP, we do not use address pools. All of our systems are statically assigned IP addresses, but installadm knows nothing of this. Fortunately the DHCP server does not seem to mind us making additional entries for the same client ID to statically assign the IP address.
I agree the simple case should be simple, but not at the expense of preventing the more sophisticated configurations.
Jesse Butler spoke thusly, on 03/15/12 12:18 PM:
Right, but again I'm concerned with blowing up configs. I think if someone has a configuration in place which is intricate and detailed and they aren't even aware that we are modifying their configuration in the background is a bit dangerous, and would likely be difficult to debug. I can imagine an admin getting quite bent out of shape when they finally discover the reason that none of their nodes have DHCP-assigned hostname is because we're trying to help:) So, given the options of a set-and-forget property when actively requesting assistance, versus not blowing up configurations when that behavior was*not* requested, I'd opt for defaulting to the non-destuctive case, and having users explicitly set a property. But, again... quorum will rule. I just might not be happy:) /jb
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