On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 8:28 AM, Matt Wallace <li...@truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 08:19 -0400, Ronald J Yacketta wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Is there anyway of querying the cobbler XML-RPC API to find out if a >> > node has finished building? >> >> Maybe this could help? >> >> # Email out a report when cobbler finishes installing a system. >> # enabled: set to 1 to turn this feature on >> # sender: optional >> # email: which addresses to email >> # smtp_server: used to specify another server for an MTA >> # subject: use the default subject unless overridden >> >> We use it here and get a E-Mail every time a system is either PXE'ed or >> Koan'ed > > Hmmm, that looks interesting, however in this case I'm not tto sure it > will help... > > Let me provide some more details about what I'm doing here... :) > > All of our servers are managed by Puppet and provisioned from Cobbler. > > I'm working on implementing CI of our server configs using Hudson and > Cucumber-Puppet > > Part of this process is to launch a VM, apply the config changes from > Puppet, test and then destroy the VM so that we know we are testing from > a known-base each time. > > Unfortunately, Cucumber-Puppet can't talk to libvirt natively (although > Ruby can), so I've written a wrapper that execs Koan and then tries to > run the tests. > > The VM is being created without issue, and is building fine, however > apart from a small (!?) issue with LibVirt not allowing kvm hosts to > reboot (possibly solved now), as Cucumber-Puppet doesn't know the VM has > finished building it continues to try and run the tests and dies > horribly because the VM isn't installed yet! > > I've tried adding "sleeps" into the script but that seems to be a really > nasty way of doing things... :( > > Any ideas? > > Kind regards, > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >
Could you just poll the cobbler master for that particular hosts netboot-enabled status and verify it's connectivity so you know it's booted up? The netboot-enabled status is toggled if you included a snippet and enable it in cobbler settings. You could also add your own trigger to do something else if you wanted. You would have to make sure the post-install triggers executed successfully on install. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
