Good luck. If you find a way to remotely provision a server without PXE (PXE requires DHCP) let us know.
If they are Dell Servers there is IDRAC. While I’ve never used the Enterprise features, it does support bare-metal provisioning but if I remember correctly
the provisioning service is just a rebranded Cobbler service….which requires DHCP.
From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Frantisek Krecmer
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 9:46 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: RHEL6.5 provisioning without DHCP
Hi Brandon,
thank you for your answer. However I am not able to tell you why not DHCP. Servers (dhcp clients) have 10Gbit fibre cables and are connected to switch ports with VLAN tagging - maybe it is problem to configure it. Who knows. I am not network admin and working
only with info I have ;) I have to discuss it with colleagues from IP services team.
Anyway, now it is personal challenge to get it working even without DHCP ;)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Ess, Brandon <Brandon.Ess@xxxxxxx> wrote:
May I ask why you cannot have a DHCP server? As far as Im aware DHCP is required for PXEboot to work. The PXE client with get an IP packet with other information such as where to TFTP the rest pf the pxe files.
So in my environment, DHCP packets are received on our WAN gateway and then forwarded to the company's corporate DHCP servers. Since I do not have access to those DHCP servers and two DHCP servers on the same network does not work (sans proper VLANs) another
solution needs to be developed; enter DHCPproxy and DNSmasq
DNSmasq/DHCPproxy will only respond to DHCP packets from configured MAC address.
I cannot remember off the top of my head what version but DHCPproxy is built into newer versions of dhcpd, and dnsmasq is a completely separate utility. The version of dhcpd shipped with RHEL6 does not support dhcpproxy, and therefore dnsmasq is required. Ubuntu
1404 and RHEL7 do support native dhcpproxy via dhcpd.
Once you have PXEboot configured, you will point the pxelinux.cfg files to the RHEL6 netboot images, the iso will be loaded, and install via your KS files.
https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/ProxyDHCP
Good luck :)
-Brandon
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