In the process of looking at this, I had two other comments:
1. It would be nice if there was a quiet mode for cobbler sync.
Twelve distros generate a lot of noise.
2. The "name" parameter should be a descriptive (possibly optional)
field and the MAC address a separate parameter (which might possibly
be plugged into the "name" field if the "name" field was not explicitly
provided).
Specifically -- figuring out which "system" is my target when all you
have is a listing of MAC addresses is even more tedious than figuring
out what their MAC addresses were in the first place; ie:
[root@router /]$ cobbler list | grep system
system 1 : 00:11:43:cd:81:f8
system 2 : 00:04:23:0A:14:04
system 3 : 00:04:23:a6:a0:86
system 4 : 00:06:5B:B1:7D:7B
system 5 : 00:30:1B:AD:90:9B
system 6 : 00:d0:b7:7a:90:b0
The "name" should probably be a descriptive label and have the MAC
address as a separate parameter as so:
# cobbler system add --name="tpx18" --mac=00:04:23:a6:a0:86 --profile=[...] --pxe-address=[...]
Of course if "name" was a hostname that was resolvable, that would make
putting in the functionality of cobbler_byname easy... :)
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