Re: [cobbler] Best way to handle dhcp-only devices?

[Bret Wortman]

That makes too much sense to be a right answer.  ;-)


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Asher Newcomer <ashernew(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Given that netboot will never be enabled does it matter what the
>  profile/distro says? Can't you just insert any profile that will take and
>  ignore those settings?
>  On Dec 18, 2012 1:26 PM, "Bret Wortman" <bret.wortman(a)damascusgrp.com&gt;
>  wrote:
>
> > What values would you suggest providing for --kernel and --initrd on the
> > "cobbler distro add" command to create an empty distro? I've tried
> numerous
> > without joy.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Greg Swift <gregswift(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Bret Wortman <
> >> bret.wortman(a)damascusgrp.com&gt; wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm setting up a new instance and there are devices which currently get
> >>> their IPs via dhcp, and we want to preserve that, but at this point their
> >>> OSes aren't ones we're still supporting (but which we don't want
> to upgrade
> >>> yet).
> >>>
> >>> How can I make sure cobbler manages their dhcp addresses (I don't want
> >>> two dhcp servers)? Is there a way to have a profile that doesn't point to
> a
> >>> distro?
> >>>
> >>
> >> In theory if you just make an empty distro/profile and don't enable
> >> netboot they should be able to be managed via cobbler system entries.
> >>
> >> but if that fails and they are going away and you just need to temporary
> >> support you can just put their entries in an include file and include that
> >> file inside the dhcpd.template file.
> >>
> >> -greg
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