Hi Hugh, Thanks for your input. I will toy with your idea in my environment.
Thanks again! - David On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Hugh Brown <hbr...@divms.uiowa.edu> wrote: > On 05/04/2011 01:11 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote: > >> Hi Hugh, >> >> Thanks for your feedback. Our reporting is hoping to be a percentage and >> the load time would probably be around 10 mins or so. I like your idea >> about monitoring both anaconda.log and install.log. >> >> Would putting something like "I'm done" in the last line of %post would >> ensure that's the last thing that is being executed by anaconda? or that's >> just close enough to being the last thing? >> >> Thanks for your valuable opinions. >> >> - David >> >> > > The scripts that are run from %post are effectively the last thing that > happens (that we have any control over). So you could put another python > script or shell script in %post that would contact your monitoring server to > indicate completion. > > For example, in looking at a machine that just loaded, the last line in > anaconda.log is time stamped 12:07:18. The log files that I create from > scripts within %post are timestamped from 12:07 to 12:14. > > The next available time to indicate completion would be to drop a > "firstboot" style script into the newly installed machine and have it report > after the reboot. After it reports, it could remove/disable itself. > > > Hugh > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@redhat.com > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
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