how many characters can be stored in the comments field? (255?)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@redhat.com> wrote:
Christopher Johnston wrote:
> Some _possible_ ones that come to mind, although this seems to be
> something that would be stored in a CMDB (which sounds like cobbler
> could potentially be used for that).  Console information is
> important, but this may not be the right place to store it.
>
> system_region (US, EU, FE)
> system_location (NY, LON, CHI)
> system_datacenter (DC1, DC2)

These three we don't have.     Though they could perhaps be stored in
the comment field, that would not be highly structured though.


> system_owner (chris)

--owners means something to authz_ownership, but can otherwise be abused
if one wants, even if not using that module.

> system_description (HP DL360 G5)
Every cobbler object has a --comment field that is free form right now,
and would be good for this.



> console_host (con01)
> console_speed (115200)
> console_port (ttyS0)
>

These seem to be kernel arguments for setting up consoles to me, and can
be stored in --kopts
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Dave Hatton <lists@davehatton.it
> <mailto:lists@davehatton.it>> wrote:
>
>
>     > Yeah, I think so, not having the fields overwriteable also makes
>     sense.
>     >
>     > Can folks come up with a common list of fields that would be
>     useful for
>     > this?
>     >
>     > It concerns me slightly that we are building sort of /another/
>     inventory
>     > system, though someone need not use it if they have another.
>     Plus the
>     > advantages (especially when we can do things like "cobbler find"
>     to see
>     > what's in what rack (cobbler find already exists as a command),
>     would
>     > definitely be worth it.
>     >
>     >
>     I'll happily collate the responses and try to get an agreed list
>
>     Dave
>
>
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