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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

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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