William,
I forgot to add, that I typically install koan to do the self-registration,
and I do it through the kickstart/snippets.
Let me know what kind of errors that your having, and Ill see what I can do
to help.
Respectfully,
Scott
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NISCOM Inc.
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On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Scott Mattan <s-mattan(a)niscom.co.jp> wrote:
William,
Sorry I am late to respond.. and I also further apologize as I seem to
have misread your request.. I missed the part about koan, unfortunately
I've never used koan to provision in my setup, I like you had too many
issues getting it working right. Instead I used scripts that acted
directly with ESXI CLI, kvm (virt-install), etc. to boot new virtual
machines, which would then install the default profile via pxe boot, self
register with cobbler and then reinstall to the appropriate OS/settings
(based on settings within the default profile, and or script, which I
changed depending on the install.)
I looked through my files, and I have some of my scripts, but I don't have
any of the cobbler settings themselves.
If possible could you provide the output for any errors that you are
getting? I could help you take a look (it would also be nice to finally get
around to learning koan... :) ).
Respectfully,
Scott
(((FYI, (although it's not related to your issue) I am also attempting to
build a potential upgrade to cobbler that will hopefully allow
OS/Configuration for rack-scale installations based on switch/switchport of
the installed server,)))
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NISCOM Inc.
Software Service Solution Department
Tel:03-6681-4305 / Mobile:080-4223-2306
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On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:24 PM, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
>
> > I haven’t used cobbler with ESXI in a while, so I don’t exactly remember
> > what the parameters were... but I know that you need to have a couple of
> > kernel options set in your profile. I had my setup completely
> automated,
> > but it got erased when my section got reorganized. Ideally you should
> be
> > able to press the power-button and have your OS installed, updated, and
> > setup for you. Admittedly, what I mostly worked with was kvm or
> bare-metal,
> > but I had some ESXI servers in the loop as well.
>
> Thanks for that info. It mean its well supported on ESXI, I just have
> to figure out how to do it
>
> >
> > Let me see if I have any notes from left over from that project. In the
> > meantime if anyone else knows the answer off the top of their head
> please
> > let us know.
> > I am at work right now, so it might be ~7 hours or so before I can get
> back
> > to you, but since we are likely in different time-zones, I'm sure that
> isn't
> > a problem.
> >
> No problem Scott, take your time. I really appreciate your effort and
> look forward to your notes.
>
> I am curious, where one should run the command below, it looks like on
> the ESXI, reading between lines, but none of the articles online
> highlight that explicitly.
>
> koan --virt --server=cobbler.eng.example.com --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64
> --virt-type=vmware --virt-name=lithium.eng.example.com
>
> If its on ESXi, how do you install koan to virtual machine thats don't
> have a operating system yet? I have a system with the virtual machine
> already setup on cobbler side as follows:
>
> cobbler system add --name=lithium --hostname=lithium.eng.example.com
> --gateway=192.168.20.168 --profile=rhel7.3-x86_64
> --dns-name=lithium.eng.example.com --mac=00:50:56:9e:fe:1a
> --ip-address=192.168.20.3 --subnet=255.255.255.0 --status=production
> --interface=em1 --static=1
>
> Regards,
> William
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