Hello, I'm curious to know how people deal with pre-install steps like configuring hardware RAID arrays, or post-install things like installing server-specific non-Red Hat packages, system setting tweaks, etc, during kickstart. Is kickstart's %pre and %post the best way to do this, or does Cobbler have anything up its sleeve to do this differently? It seems like profiles or even perhaps triggers could be useful, but I'm not quite sure what the best way to accomplish this would be. To illustrate my point, say I have 100 Dell PowerEdge 2950 servers all requiring the same base Red Hat ES 4 installation: 50 need to be configured with hardware RAID 5 and Apache installed in addition to the base OS, 30 need to be configured with hardrware RAID 10 and MySQL, and 20 need to be configured with hardware RAID 1 and Webalizer. Obviously, I don't want to manually configure the RAID arrays prior to provisioning them if I can avoid it. Provided Dell has a tool that runs under linux that can configure the hardware RAID controller *and* I can associate a MAC address to a required RAID config and additional packages, what is the best way to do both the pre-install and the post-install steps? Thanks in advance for any help! Mike _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
