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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