Actually I don't have the mac addresses handy. Would have to login to
the ilo/idrac of each server and grab the mac which is very time
consuming. I do have all the hostnames and ip addresses defined in
dns. Is there a way for me to get the bare metal hardware to tell the
cobbler server its mac addresses and auto register somehow. From
there maybe I can write a shell script to populate the other needed
info.
Thanks.
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Alan Evangelista
<alanoe(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
On 04/29/2015 12:51 AM, Jagga Soorma wrote:
>
> I now have a
> requirement to build a cluster with 50+ nodes and was wondering how to
> automate this as much as possible. Has anyone out there already done
> something similar? If so, how did you approach this? I would hate to
> tell someone to run the cobbler system add command for 50 servers.
I suppose you have a list of the MAC addresses and power management data
(and maybe
IP addresses) of the 50+ nodes. Simply create a Python script which creates
the missing
system data (eg name) automatically and uses Cobbler CLI / XML-RPC interface
to add the
systems to Cobbler.
Regards,
Alan Evangelista
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