Re: [cobbler] Anamon

[Michael]

Hello Jörgen,

We are using it... Less than 1% of our deployments.

We don't need anamon when everything goes well off course.
But... When something goes bad, when your install has a little thing
wrecked...

The anamon becomes helpful to understand what, and when something goes
wrong.

We use PXE installation massively.
Last time I used it to debug a fresh RHEL  install on a brand new physical
server.
As the RAID card was no supported, the anaconda goes to build partitions on
just one disk.

You come back in front of your ILO console, everything looks ok but you
don't have RAID1...
Not easy to detect immediately and even worse easy to understand when and
why it goes bad.

The good reflex was to go see the install log files and I saw that the raid
card was detected
but there was no driver to support it. Fast and rapid detection, brings a
rapid solution.
(a driver disk was used).

So yes, we use anamon. It is quite rare but how helpful !

Off course, if you have an alternative purely based on remote syslog. It
will be welcomed too.



*Michael PATRIS Thales Alenia Space*

2014-07-17 14:30 GMT+02:00 Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas(a)gmail.com&gt;:

>  Hi guys,
>
>  Just wondering if there are people out there actually using anamon ?
>  Please let me know if you do, or don't.
>
>  --
>  Grtz,
>  Jörgen Maas
>
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Anamon

[Jörgen Maas]

Thanks for a very clear use-case description!


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Michael <michael.patris(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello Jörgen,
>
>  We are using it... Less than 1% of our deployments.
>
>  We don't need anamon when everything goes well off course.
>  But... When something goes bad, when your install has a little thing
>  wrecked...
>
>  The anamon becomes helpful to understand what, and when something goes
>  wrong.
>
>  We use PXE installation massively.
>  Last time I used it to debug a fresh RHEL  install on a brand new physical
>  server.
>  As the RAID card was no supported, the anaconda goes to build partitions
>  on just one disk.
>
>  You come back in front of your ILO console, everything looks ok but you
>  don't have RAID1...
>  Not easy to detect immediately and even worse easy to understand when and
>  why it goes bad.
>
>  The good reflex was to go see the install log files and I saw that the
>  raid card was detected
>  but there was no driver to support it. Fast and rapid detection, brings a
>  rapid solution.
>  (a driver disk was used).
>
>  So yes, we use anamon. It is quite rare but how helpful !
>
>  Off course, if you have an alternative purely based on remote syslog. It
>  will be welcomed too.
>
>
>
>  *Michael PATRIS Thales Alenia Space*
>
>  2014-07-17 14:30 GMT+02:00 Jörgen Maas <jorgen.maas(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > Just wondering if there are people out there actually using anamon ?
> > Please let me know if you do, or don't.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Grtz,
> > Jörgen Maas
> >
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>  

-- 
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas

Anamon

[Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA)]

Yes, in my previous work, we also used it sporadically with a similar situation like
Michael. We also worked with SLES and wished for something like yastmon! We ended up
creating our own anamon type thingy for yast/sles.

Balaji

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Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 12:37 AM
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Subject: Re: [cobbler] Anamon

Hello Jörgen,
We are using it... Less than 1% of our deployments.
We don't need anamon when everything goes well off course.
But... When something goes bad, when your install has a little thing wrecked...
The anamon becomes helpful to understand what, and when something goes wrong.

We use PXE installation massively.
Last time I used it to debug a fresh RHEL  install on a brand new physical server.
As the RAID card was no supported, the anaconda goes to build partitions on just one
disk.
You come back in front of your ILO console, everything looks ok but you don't have
RAID1...
Not easy to detect immediately and even worse easy to understand when and why it goes
bad.
The good reflex was to go see the install log files and I saw that the raid card was
detected
but there was no driver to support it. Fast and rapid detection, brings a rapid solution.
(a driver disk was used).
So yes, we use anamon. It is quite rare but how helpful !
Off course, if you have an alternative purely based on remote syslog. It will be welcomed
too.

Michael PATRIS
Thales Alenia Space


2014-07-17 14:30 GMT+02:00 Jörgen Maas
<[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>:
Hi guys,
Just wondering if there are people out there actually using anamon ?
Please let me know if you do, or don't.

--
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas

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[Alan Evangelista]

On 07/18/2014 12:50 PM, Parthasarathy, Balaji (BTI, Palo Alto, USA) wrote:
>  Yes, in my previous work, we also used it sporadically with a similar 
>  situation like Michael. We also worked with SLES and wished for 
>  something like yastmon! We ended up creating our own anamon type 
>  thingy for yast/sles.
>  
We already thought about creating the same thing here (yastmon). Could 
you share it with the community?


Regards,
Alan Evangelista