Hi
Using DHCP here from cobbler for PXE installs no problem, is it also possible to have cobbler do DHCP for other devices, ie the remote management cards as people here seem to leave them to DHCP and it would be nice to have cobbler handle all that. Having a remote management card get an IP from DHCP seems odd to me but as long as cobbler pins the IP via mac etc as it would for booting a host then i guess it can be done, and doubly so if cobbler also handles DNS as the rm address and machine address can all come from the same bind.
Does this make sense and can it be done at the moment?
thanks
Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
Using DHCP here from cobbler for PXE installs no problem, is it also possible to have cobbler do DHCP for other devices, ie the remote management cards as people here seem to leave them to DHCP and it would be nice to have cobbler handle all that. Having a remote management card get an IP from DHCP seems odd to me but as long as cobbler pins the IP via mac etc as it would for booting a host then i guess it can be done, and doubly so if cobbler also handles DNS as the rm address and machine address can all come from the same bind.
Does this make sense and can it be done at the moment?
Yes, cobbler's DHCP management could be used to configure DHCP and DNS for arbitrary devices.
Note that netboot_enabled is a global flag, and you would not want the management interface responding to PXE requests (maybe it's BIOS ignores them anyway -- but I don't know -- you'd have to figure this out).
If that happened, you could solve this by making a cobbler system object for each management device, naming it something like "systemname-mgmt" and toggling that systems netboot enabled flag off.
This seems to make sense because the management devices really are seperate entities from the systems they run on, just as a virtual guest is really a separate system.
Does that approach seem workable?
thanks _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
Yes, cobbler's DHCP management could be used to configure DHCP and DNS for arbitrary devices.
Note that netboot_enabled is a global flag, and you would not want the management interface responding to PXE requests (maybe it's BIOS ignores them anyway -- but I don't know -- you'd have to figure this out).
If that happened, you could solve this by making a cobbler system object for each management device, naming it something like "systemname-mgmt" and toggling that systems netboot enabled flag off.
This seems to make sense because the management devices really are seperate entities from the systems they run on, just as a virtual guest is really a separate system.
Does that approach seem workable?
that sounds good to me - i dont know the card would pay attention to a PXE or not but i assume not. If this is possible then this would be a great tool to have i think as it would mean DNS and DHCP all in 1 place which is a great selling point.
thanks
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