On 04/29/2015 01:11 AM, Jagga Soorma wrote:
Actually I don't have the mac addresses handy. Would have to
login to
the ilo/idrac of each server and grab the mac which is very time
consuming.
Write a script to do that? expect/pexpect may be helpful.
I do have all the hostnames and ip addresses defined in
dns. Is there a way for me to get the bare metal hardware to tell the
cobbler server its mac addresses and auto register somehow.
If your bare metal hardware is in the same LAN of the Cobbler server,
you can use "arp -a"
after pinging the bare metal hardware from Cobbler server to get its MAC
address.
If Cobbler server is not in the same LAN, you could split this in 2
steps: run a MAC address
discovery script in a system which *is* in the same LAN of the bare
metal hardware and then
add the systems to Cobbler.
Regards,
Alan Evangelista