On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote: > These are two things I want to look at doing soon. > > (A) > > The image use case: > > We're already using Cobbler to help manage DHCP, DNS, PXE trees, and > abstract out all of the glue that holds the OS's together. One thing > that it doesn't do though, is have a good way to deploy images to > physical machines (cloning). Kickstart is pretty flexible, I like it > better, but I know that doesn't solve all the problems of deploying > "that other OS" and so forth. Images are also important for the > appliance space, and we'll also be able to eventually use the same kind > of image database for virt images depending on how we play our cards. > > So, since things like udpcast allow network deployment of the "target" > boot image, this seems like it would be easy to do something like. > > cobbler system add --name=foo --clone=this-image-target # syntax > completely made up at this point This could be done in a Unattended-like setup. As explained on wiki, Unattended is a set of Kernel, Initrd and Perl scripts that setups a dosemu to install Hasecorp's Hasefroch system. For deploying images, that kind of setup with a "kernel" and "initrd" with an embedded "partimage" could help connect to a server with cobbler and use a parameter passed on kernel command line to determine image to clone on local disk. > Do something with FreeIPMI / OpenIPMI (I haven't investigated either of > these in depth yet -- there may be alternatives), so that when assigning > a new profile to a system record it is then trivial to also power cycle > that system. This would make PXE reinstallations easier (especially > where you can't SSH in to restart them) and also would help cobbler > become more of a tool for managing the low level system bits. Then here could fit another proposal: Remote management cards, for example interaction with iLO interfaces or Remote View Service Boards among others, in the same way as "fence" does for GFS. Regards Pablo _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
