Hi Alan,

I'm interested. I wonder if it should be a separate package though.

- Would it cover master and slave cobbler servers? Perhaps multiple stats engines could post to the same database?
- I'd be interested in an alternative database backend though as the size if my estate / usage model would probably fit in a sql-lite database.

Regards

Dylan

On 16 Sep 2014 01:30, "Alan Evangelista" <alanoe@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
We have developed code to generate statistics about OS installation in a Cobbler server
and save it in a relational database. For each system and date/time when netboot was enabled,
it saves user, target system name, target Linux distribution name, date/time when netboot
was enabled, date/time when system was restarted via Cobbler, date/time when system network
configuration was requested to DHCP server, date/time of boot loader/kernel download via TFTP
and date/time of automated OS installation end (if user used Cobbler's default
kickstart/autoyast/preseed).

Our setup saves to a MySQL database, but this could be abstracted to use any relational database.
The code assumes there is a DHCP and TFTP server installed locally in Cobbler server, as it
parses DHCP/TFTP local logs. Code works independently of user restarting system manually or
via Cobbler.

Cobbler community has interest in this feature?


Regards,
Alan Evangelista

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