Tim, This has been discussed - it's tricky in CB 1.x because we rely on the PXE/DHCP discovery to register nodes in Chef for management.
Question -> is your concern more about DHCP or PXE? DHCP helps w/ discovery and proving the sledgehammer inventory image. PXE is how sledgehammer and the install image are delivered. iDRAC could be used to bypass either or both, but it changes your use case. In CB 2.x work, we have more options on how to populate and manage nodes. Rob From: crowbar-bounces On Behalf Of Timothy Rees Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:24 AM To: crowbar Subject: [Crowbar] Crowbar for non-PXE deployments Hi, This project recently came to my attention when I was looking for a generic application that could be used to push OS deployments to Dell PowerEdge bare-metal without the requirement of PXE. However, of course I now see that this project depends depends on PXE and it was originally intended to push a complete cloud environment, not just one off OS deployments. My question is, could the work to incorporate deployments using the PowerEdge Lifecycle controller (wsman) be incorporated into this project and if so, would that be of interest? Back to my specific use case, we've already got management systems such as SCCM/Satellite that can manage the OS through its lifecycle once it has been deployed, we're only looking for a single deployment tool that can be used without the requirement for PXE. Although I have more of a python background, I would be happy to try and port to Perl and contribute if this is something that would be seen to add value to crowbar. I see in the recent youtube video for 2.0 that 'Heterogeneous OS deployment' was an agenda item. Regards, Tim
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