Hi, If you find a way to do this outside of the RAID bios I would be very interested. There are utilities to manage the raid once the OS is installed but I believe it's more basic stuff (i.e. check status, list containers, show hot-swap). If these utilities could fully managed the raid (i.e. create/delete containers) then you could potentially build these utilities into the boot images are provision that way ( no idea if it's possible). Cheers, Harry > 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 > _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
