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Michael DeHaan | 4 Jan 16:22
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Re: Cobbler on Solaris 9

David Mackintosh wrote:
> Although firmly filed under "stupid computer trick", it may amuse
> you to know that the .tar.gz of cobbler 0.3.5 will install correctly
> on a SPARC Solaris 9 system with the csw python installed.
>
> Predictably it isn't happy about not being able to find httpd, but
> the setup of distros, profiles, and systems works correctly, and
> from this platform I have installed several flavors of CentOS,
> RHEL-3ES and RHEL-4ES to i386-family systems.
>   
Neat.   For things like getting "cobbler check" to behave better, you 
might be able to get away by changing
http_bin and so forth in /var/lib/cobbler/settings.   Things like the 
http restart probably don't work though.
> (Importing distros (via rsync) has not been tested as I manage my
> distros through other methods, but offhand there isn't really any
> reason why this wouldn't work.)
>
> Why might this be useful?  Well I already have a set of scripts for
> managing my hosts infrastructure (DNS, NIS, DHCP) plus a tftp server
> for Solaris Kickstarts already in existance, and this lets me do
> everything from one server.
>
> So I can now say:
>
> # cobbler_byname --host tpx18 --profile RHEL-3ES-U6-i386-ws
>
> ...and it generates and runs the appropriate cobbler command for
> me, instead of me having to dig out the MAC and IP address for
> the system manually.
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David Mackintosh | 5 Jan 00:19

Two other comments

In the process of looking at this, I had two other comments:

1.  It would be nice if there was a quiet mode for cobbler sync.
    Twelve distros generate a lot of noise.

2.  The "name" parameter should be a descriptive (possibly optional)
    field and the MAC address a separate parameter (which might possibly
    be plugged into the "name" field if the "name" field was not explicitly
    provided).

Specifically -- figuring out which "system" is my target when all you
have is a listing of MAC addresses is even more tedious than figuring
out what their MAC addresses were in the first place; ie:

[root <at> router /]$ cobbler list | grep system
system 1        : 00:11:43:cd:81:f8
system 2        : 00:04:23:0A:14:04
system 3        : 00:04:23:a6:a0:86
system 4        : 00:06:5B:B1:7D:7B
system 5        : 00:30:1B:AD:90:9B
system 6        : 00:d0:b7:7a:90:b0

The "name" should probably be a descriptive label and have the MAC
address as a separate parameter as so: 

# cobbler system add --name="tpx18" --mac=00:04:23:a6:a0:86 --profile=[...] --pxe-address=[...]

Of course if "name" was a hostname that was resolvable, that would make
putting in the functionality of cobbler_byname easy... :)
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Michael DeHaan | 5 Jan 00:45
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Re: Two other comments

David Mackintosh wrote:
> In the process of looking at this, I had two other comments:
>
> 1.  It would be nice if there was a quiet mode for cobbler sync.
>     Twelve distros generate a lot of noise.
>   
Believe it or not, it used to be louder.   Point taken.
> 2.  The "name" parameter should be a descriptive (possibly optional)
>     field and the MAC address a separate parameter (which might possibly
>     be plugged into the "name" field if the "name" field was not explicitly
>     provided).
>
> Specifically -- figuring out which "system" is my target when all you
> have is a listing of MAC addresses is even more tedious than figuring
> out what their MAC addresses were in the first place; ie:
>
> [root <at> router /]$ cobbler list | grep system
> system 1        : 00:11:43:cd:81:f8
> system 2        : 00:04:23:0A:14:04
> system 3        : 00:04:23:a6:a0:86
> system 4        : 00:06:5B:B1:7D:7B
> system 5        : 00:30:1B:AD:90:9B
> system 6        : 00:d0:b7:7a:90:b0
>
> The "name" should probably be a descriptive label and have the MAC
> address as a separate parameter as so: 
>
> # cobbler system add --name="tpx18" --mac=00:04:23:a6:a0:86 --profile=[...] --pxe-address=[...]
>   
Name is already in use in the field and can't change, though I
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David Mackintosh | 5 Jan 00:09

Re: Cobbler on Solaris 9

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:

> Neat.   For things like getting "cobbler check" to behave better, you 
> might be able to get away by changing
> http_bin and so forth in /var/lib/cobbler/settings.   Things like the 
> http restart probably don't work though.

Service handling would either have to be abstracted in cobbler, or
dummied up on the sun to make it pretend to be more like a RedHat
system, neither of which is probably worth the effort it would take.

> Definitely, I'd like to see it.

Attached to this page:

  http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/RedHat/kickstart/Cobbler/cobbler_byname

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