Hello Lionel, we still need to make that date! We had to kind of go with the flow and fit our servers into existing server build world. Our VM userids don't bear any relationship to the Linux hostname (usually). But what we've come up with does allow us to quickly figure it out - I can do an nslookup on the hostname and get an IP which by looking tells me what VM system and what VM userid that is.
We assign IP from our spreadsheet basically (I am subnet owner for several subnets). Then the requesting application takes the IP and requests entry into the DNS. They must have approved application security plan with their hostnames in for that to happen. (the DNS group is gatekeeper for security :). Along the way, we also submit forms to get the name and address into Remedy Asset Management for CMDB purposes. DNS delegation would be nice, but it'd never happen here because of security. So, I guess my point is, you'll probably have to find out how the rest of the world there does it. Hopefully, they have processes in place that you can just hook in to and not reinvent all your wheels. Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Boyes Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 2:15 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Assigning/Tracking Host names > Thanks - what about assigning host names. > For example if your host name were generated (based on local conventions) > as C1LVM001 how would you track this and how would you assign the 002, > etc. host names? Netreg has a user-creatable exit point for doing this. You tell it how to construct the name, and it does it for each new MAC it sees, updating the DNS if allowed to do so, sending mail to the DNS admins if not. It also adds comments to the DHCP config wrt to host configuration and OS as best it can figure out, and if you add on some additional open source widgets, it will trigger virus and security scanning as well. In your case, get your DNS people to delegate a subdomain to you and run the authoritative DNS for that subdomain. Then it "just works". Netreg was designed to deal with registration of enormous numbers of student machines at Southwestern College. It's good at this stuff...8-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
