On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:47:11 +0000 (UTC), Levente Lajko levente.lajko@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Guys,
I am working on a cobbler powered deployment environment to prepare hardware for a specific deployment. Here is the scenario:
- Multitude of bare-metal "off the truck" servers
- Loading HP Scripting Toolkit image with some custom scripting via Cobbler
to update firmware, set iLO, configure RAID. 3. For this I use the default system with the Scripting Toolkit's profile
What I'm missing at this point is the ability to prevent pxe boot for the default profile after the first boot + auto registration of the servers using the Scripting Toolkit's profile.
My understanding is that these options are available only when deploying RedHat/Fedora/Centos based images.
Any help would be appreciated.
If you can do a standard HTTP GET, you can hit /cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/$SYSTEMNAME on your cobbler server. This plus enabling PXE_JUST_ONCE in your settings file should result in your system getting set to boot local. You can do other interesting things with triggers as well. Even doing auto registration without koan/python installed. It would be a little difficult, but I'm pretty sure it is possible.