Hi,
At $work, I have SCCM(Microsoft Systems Center Config Manager) for Windows Deployment and use cobbler for Linux distros. My DHCP server is Windows Server 2008 and the way I get cobbler to work is to manually define the scope options just before I provision.
66 Boot Server Host name: <IP of cobbler> 67 Bootfilename: pxelinux.0
Though this works, I recently came across this doc. "Creating a PXE boot menu item for integration with SCCM" https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Microsoft-systems-center
The documentation is very vague and is difficult to follow even with the reference links. I somehow managed to export the files to /tftpboot/ but I don't know how to make it work.
What filename should I give for dhcp scope options, so it shows this menu? If I don't provide a file, PXE fails with no file found. If I give 'pxelinux.0', it goes directly to linux deployment.
Has anyone successfully implemented the SCCM and cobbler?
Thanks, Prashanth
Prashanth Sundaram wrote:
[...] Though this works, I recently came across this doc. "Creating a PXE boot menu item for integration with SCCM" https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Microsoft-systems-center
The documentation is very vague and is difficult to follow even with the reference links. I somehow managed to export the files to /tftpboot/ but I don't know how to make it work.
What filename should I give for dhcp scope options, so it shows this menu? If I don't provide a file, PXE fails with no file found. If I give 'pxelinux.0', it goes directly to linux deployment.
Has anyone successfully implemented the SCCM and cobbler? [...]
I don't use of any of this so I don't know anything at all about this particular area.
But I do know, as a user, that the cobbler documentation is variable in quality (some good, some not quite as good) and that improvements to the documentation are most welcome.
So I would encourage you to think about how you would improve the documentation. Because it is in the wiki, you can probably update it yourself if you wish. If you don't want actually to update it yourself, then I would be happy to consider doing the update for you. (I've already made a few updates to it myself.)
I don't use of any of this so I don't know anything at all about this particular area.
Small request to everyone --
Please don't reply to the mailing list when you don't know about the topic. It's a rather large list, so consider if your reply is going to be informative to the list as a whole.
There have been a fair amount of unsubscriptions lately and conversational "me too" / "I don't know" / "thanks" is great for IRC, but not so much on a ML. I appreciate questions and answers, you can consider silence, unfortunately, as an "I don't know".
But I do know, as a user, that the cobbler documentation is variable in quality (some good, some not quite as good) and that improvements to the documentation are most welcome.
This is the general nature of all Wikis, and I think this does a disservice to folks who have contributed to it over the years.
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