These are the 4 objectives I am trying to achieve: A. Prepare a gold copy of the server. This involves: 1. installing RHEL5 on it including some custom RPM's like webmin. 2. Move config files like httpd.conf etc. to the state part of the machine, a location called /gt/fsrvx/server-config/. Here x is that servers number. For e.g the first server will have /gt/fsrv1/ 2nd server will have /gt/fsrv2/ and so on. Here /gt/ is a separate LVM partition.
B. Push the gold copy out to servers using cobbler and koan. C. Each of the deployed servers should contact the central gold copy and see if there have been any changes to the / partition (the stateless part of the machine) and if so then get (rsync ?) the changes. D. Any changes to the /gt/ partition (This is the state part of each of the servers) should be sent over to the backup server (rsync / LVM snapshots ?) My three questions are: 1. Will the kickstart file allow me to move the config files like httpd.conf over to /gt/fsrv1/server-config/httpd.conf. I can possibly do this by modifying the default apache RPM but will I be able to say /gt/fsrv?/server-config/http.conf and replace the ? with the current server number getting installed. 2. Will I be able to achieve the objectives C and and D ? 3. Is there a better way to achieve the fundamental need of having a stateless and a state part on the local partitions of each of the deployed servers ? Please see my related post at: https://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2007-April/msg00021.html Regards, ----- Mortgage fit Virtualization Group http://www.mortgagefit.com Vikas vikas at mortgagefit dot com _______________________________________________ Stateless-list mailing list [email protected] http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/stateless-list
