Fuchs Andreas wrote:
Hi
I'm pretty new to RHN Satellite server and Kickstart and have a couple
of questions.
We have the Satellite server setup with the needed channels and a
kickstart profile ready for those channels.
Bare Metall installation is running ok ending with a installed system
with no hostname (registered as "unknown" in the satellite server) and
ip from DHCP.
We wonder now:
- How does the server get his Hostname?
- How do we configure the Networks (there are severals including some
bonding)?
What's best practice?
- cloning a template kickstart profile for each server and adding the
values?
- create pre/post scripts who ask for the information during install?
as we like this idea
IMHO, you should be aiming for fully-automated installations whenever
possible.
Using a templating system, like Cobbler's, you can share one kickstart
template among various systems, add the system
network information into Cobbler, and cobbler will build out the
per-system kickstarts for you automatically.
In cobbler, this is as simple as:
cobbler system add --name=foo --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF --ip=192.168.5.5
--subnet=....
and in the template you can reference things like $ip_address and so on
automatically
there is also a web interface available for setting this up if you don't
like the command line.
It can also help you manage your DHCP and PXE configurations if you want
to do that.
- is there some documentation/examples/helper scripts to get a this
nicely done?
It's kind of spread out, but start here:
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/
The templating system is described here:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartTemplating (warning, this
reads a bit scarier than it actually is)
Also:
- is cobbler supporting/integrating with the satellite server
Cobbler plays nicely with Satellite. You can use Cobbler with
Satellite/RHN very easily if you want to.
All you have to do is call rhnreg_ks (or is it rhn_regks, I forget) in
%post so that the systems you install get
registered to RHN.
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