We have many machines that we will be building, so we are hoping to automate the process of monitoring the status of the OS.
Spawning a script and monitoring 'install.log' is an option. Another thought would be monitoring the anaconda.log.
I notice the log prints the following....
anaconda.log:21:22:31 INFO : moving (1) to step partitionobjinit
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO : moving (1) to step autopartitionexecute
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO : moving (1) to step partitiondone
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO : moving (1) to step bootloadersetup
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO : moving (1) to step networkdevicecheck
anaconda.log:21:22:32 INFO : moving (1) to step reposetup
anaconda.log:21:22:34 INFO : moving (1) to step basepkgsel
anaconda.log:21:22:35 INFO : moving (1) to step postselection
anaconda.log:21:22:44 INFO : moving (1) to step install
anaconda.log:21:22:44 INFO : moving (1) to step enablefilesystems
anaconda.log:21:23:48 INFO : moving (1) to step migratefilesystems
anaconda.log:21:23:48 INFO : moving (1) to step setuptime
anaconda.log:21:23:49 INFO : moving (1) to step preinstallconfig
anaconda.log:21:23:49 INFO : moving (1) to step installpackages
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO : moving (1) to step postinstallconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO : moving (1) to step writeconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO : moving (1) to step firstboot
anaconda.log:21:25:57 INFO : moving (1) to step instbootloader
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO : moving (1) to step writeksconfig
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO : moving (1) to step writeregkey
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO : moving (1) to step setfilecon
anaconda.log:21:25:59 INFO : moving (1) to step copylogs
It looks like if I monitor these steps then I might be able to get a better estimate of the installation progress.
What do you think? Any thought?
Thanks,
David
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Hugh Brown <hbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My memory says that the install.log is actually in /tmp/install.log. After the installation is finished it is copied to /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log.
On 05/03/2011 04:34 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
Hi All,
I am hoping to run a python script in the background during %pre to monitor
the kickstart install status. My script will periodically send status to a
server somewhere within LAN and report the current installation status.
Running a python script in %pre and sending status to a remote server is the
easy part but I am not sure what to monitor to retrieve the kickstart
install status.
One thought I have is to monitor the /mnt/sysimage/root/install.log and
compare the number of packages installed and the number of packages
specified in the ks.cfg and get a rough estimate of the kickstart install
status.
I am not sure if this is a correct way to do or there's a better to do so.
Please let me know if you've any suggestion or thought.
Thanks!
- David
For fedora systems, I enabled sshd and require a password:
sshpw --username=root XXXXXXXX --plaintext
If I want to check status, I ssh in and look. If I don't, there's a script that will email me when it has finished.
On RH5 systems, I enabled vnc and would use vncviewer to connect and check progress.
Otherwise, watching the number of packages installed in install.log works.
Hugh
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