Hristov, Georgi wrote:
This reminds me a lot of AIX NIM (Network Installation Manager
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247296.html). NIM has similar
functionality. Actually, NIM would even setup a static route on a
provisioned system if the system is being installed via a secondary NIC.
This functionality is made possible via the knowledge of networks,
similar to what is being discussed here.
Hmm - I think this is a little different, unless I misunderstand the
proposal. Since I think most sites are using dhcp reservations, I think
the proposed patch is to break out the IP management functionality from
the "cobbler system" command set.
-pete
-Georgi
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[mailto:et-mgmt-tools-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Wright
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 15:54
To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools
Subject: Re: Cobbler: defining network profiles
James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Greetings folks. I was working out a RFE with mpdehaan in #cobbler
this
morning, and he thought I should post it here to get other folks
input.
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ticket/164
I think it would be a great addition to be able to define network
profiles
for systems/profiles, etc.
A network profile would consist of :
subnet mask default gateway dns server
hmm - that's an interesting idea. that would make IP'ing workstations
here a little easier, and less error prone.
it would be very helpful for sites that have a ton of VLANs - with this
method you could have your senior admins create profiles for all your
VLANs ahead of time - then easily have your junior admins assign network
profiles based on the location of a desktop for example (we use a
separate VLAN for each teleco closet here - and system moves are pretty
frequent unfortunately).
<snip>
In the background, my guess is that the information is still stored
the
same way, and if a network profile is changed, systems that use it are
synced whenever a cobbler sync occurs.
Yea that would be best I think - you may want to make these changes to
many systems for example, but only have dhcpd change it's config after a
sync.
great idea!
-pete
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