Greeting Jared,
At 12:02 PM 1/13/2009, you wrote:
> So I'm still new to cobbler, but so far I'm very pleased with it. I
> was considering rolling my own tool to do a lot of this, but I'm happy
> not to. One thing that I was doing before I found cobbler and many
> people may find useful is using the anaconda vnc remote install
> option. It's very useful to be able to watch the progress of the
> anaconda installer or even manually run it from the cobbler server. It
> would be nice if there was a snippet to help with setting this up, and
> also a trigger could help with opening the vnc listening viewer and
> closing it after the install is complete. I'm still becoming familiar
> with the cobbler architecture, so I won't try to bite this off myself
> yet, but this should be trivial for someone familiar with cobbler.
>
If you enable logging on your Cobbler server (of if you setup a log server)
you monitor progress.
Add the line below to your kick start (if you setup your Cobbler server as
a log-server.) You can 'watch' multiple systems build using this
approach. In addition, if you configure the new server/VM to log remotely
then on re-boot you are set for remote logging...
# # # set logging host
logging --host=$next_server --level=debug
:)
Dale
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Trueness; to add to that -- the new anaconda monitoring features Bill
Peck and James Laska have contributed recently are also very impressive
-- they log more than Anaconda normally does, automatically to
/var/log/cobbler.
There's also the simpler "cobbler status" command that keeps track of
when installs started and when they are done -- which basically uses the
same kinds of data (logs from cobbler's install triggers in this case).
The one thing the VNC approach (or the serial console approach) allows
is fixing an install that has gone interactive though that's a bit of an
edge case.
--Michael