David Mackintosh wrote:
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.
Believe it or not, it used to be louder. Point taken.
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=[...]
Name is already in use in the field and can't change, though I
understand your point.
A perhaps better solution is to add an optional --description field for
each object (including distros and systems) and show that information next
to the "cobbler list" data.
Of course if "name" was a hostname that was resolvable, that would make
putting in the functionality of cobbler_byname easy... :)
Yes, the name has to be resolveable in order to use it with pxelinux.
Hostnames aren't requested by pxelinux when it's asking for files over
TFTP, just IP's and MAC's. And if you are using MAC's, you can let
cobbler manage a dhcpd.conf file and generate reservations for you,
using --pxe-address=ip.
