I could probably add the following when I get a chance since I know
IPMI.
cobbler-register --use-ipmi=<IP of server>
then have in the settings a default username/password for connecting
to IPMI
It would then return all the variables and such.
Corey
On Mar 4, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> So we've been talking recently about registration and how best to get
>> all the info about an existing pool of machines into Cobbler.
>>
>> What I'm going to do is create a /usr/bin/cobbler-register which is
>> part
>> of the koan RPM package.
>>
>> It will look like this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/cobbler-register [--server=address] --profile=name
>> [--hostname=X] [...]
>>
>> What this will do is query the current running system and create a
>> system record on the cobbler server for it. The initial version
>> won't
>> be perfect and likely won't be able to auto-register
>> bonded interfaces, but I imagine it will be good enough for 90% of
>> the
>> use cases and we can refine it later. For instance, it also won't
>> flag
>> network interfaces as static initially. I expect to get things
>> to be fairly solid, easy to understand, and sufficient to were
>> folks can
>> send me some patches for things they'd like to improve. Again,
>> initial version should still be a huge upgrade over how it
>> works now.
>>
>> So, /usr/bin/cobbler-register can be used in two ways:
>>
>> (A) at the bottom of a profile kickstart, we'll add a snippet that
>> sees
>> if it's a per-profile kickstart, and if so, if koan is available,
>> will
>> register to cobbler to create a new system record. This feature
>> will not be on by default.
>>
>> (B) you could also use koan to deploy a live environment (or even
>> just a
>> regular throw-away kickstart install) that calls koan register to
>> quickly add all your systems into Cobbler.
>>
>> This will not require any package other than koan, and will use the
>> existing "register_new_installs" value in settings to turn it on and
>> off. The existing registration mechanism, which is not smart
>> enough to detect all interfaces, and also requires installation, will
>> replaced by the new system.
>>
>> To take full advantage of it, make sure koan is installed in each
>> kickstart you have (which should not be a problem for Fedora users at
>> all, and EL users can do this by mirroring EPEL and associating
>> it with their profiles).
>>
>> Sidenote -- James Laska has also talked about making a
>> /usr/bin/cobbler-register --interactive option, which would likely
>> be a
>> curses based UI for prompting for additional information, browsing
>> available profiles, and so forth. This may be useful for smaller
>> environments. Really I'm not as interested in the text-ui for that,
>> per se, as I am a text UI for doing virt installs, in which case,
>> it's
>> like a text version of virt manager, only with less things to fill
>> in,
>> that works nicely over SSH. (This would probably be done in
>> /usr/bin/koan).
>>
>> --Michael
>>
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> I have the above implemented -- you'll need a devel build of cobbler
> and
> a devel build of koan. (Check them out of git and do "make rpms")
>
> When you install koan, you'll get a /usr/bin/cobbler/register script,
> and there's also a new cobbler_register snippet for auto registering
> profile based installs (which I will be testing
> very soon now).
>
> Registration will not succeed when the existing system has any
> conflicts
> with macs, ips, or hostnames. I need to modify the snippet slightly so
> it ignores such failures in %post.
>
> Additional modifications to send over more info and be smarter about
> what is stored (maybe detecting static interfaces or not registering
> wireless interfaces, etc) would be welcome, as well
> as any comments/ideas you might have.
>
> --Michael
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