Back to the original poster, are you looking for a way to rebuild the
nodes automatically, remotely, and completely hands off, or just merely
to rebuild them quickly? I only deal with a couple of dozen nodes (not
hundreds), and using kickstart and storing the config files on the
server allows me to rebuild a node in about 15 minutes, of which only
the first minute or two requires my attention and physical presence. I
wrote a simple Perl script that generates the kickstart file for each node.
thanks for the reply's - the main issue i have is that when i build a
new box currently my kix has to go something like
./addnewbox 'mac-yada-yada-yada' <hostname> <ip> <image name>
then walk away - yes i know thats not that hard and requires minimum
effort - I do however have to find mac's out first etc which on a lot of
boxes at once can be a pain.
i like the idea in rocks to be able to go next mac you see install with
x image so that i can just power up the boxes in order.
I guess id'd also like to be able to select a bunch of already running
boxes and have them rebuild to where they were last install just like
rocks can also do so i guess i'm after a mix of what i have now and some
features that rocks has. I would also like to be able to force a pix
boot next reboot just like the 'shoot-node' command in rocks but i dont
seem to be able to figure out how that works!!
thanks
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