[cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile

Sam Sen ssen at ariasystems.com
Tue Mar 19 18:28:03 UTC 2013


I don’t have the luxury of running DHCP (don’t ask).

Regards,

Sam

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I don't have any experience with bonding interfaces (so can't guess if there's an issue there)...

Let me ask a really dumb question - are  you able to PXE boot other machines now?  Not the blades - but any of your other machines on your network?
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Good catch, I did catch that prior to my initial post and tried again with “—mac” but it still doesn’t work.




Regards,

Sam

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Sorry - I really didn't read closely...

I did look at the thread...I notice you have -mac vs --mac in your example...
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Yep, that’s what I did. I tried that along with setting the name to the MAC Address of eth0.

I should test this w/o the bonding interface set up. See my first post of the command I used to add the system.


Regards,

Sam

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My apologies as I am walking into this late...but...

If you know the mac addresses of each blade, you can add that system with --mac="some mac address" and each one when it PXE boots, Cobbler will do the right thing...
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Yes, I mount them via a virtual dvd.

I really don’t want to have 12 different ISOs. It would be easier to just select the system name from the cobbler menu.

Regards,

Sam

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Does each blade have its own optical drive ?
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Hmmmm … so if I have 12 blades to build, is there a quicker way to do this? I would like to boot from ISO (the same ISO for all 12 systems) and have cobbler take over. I don’t think this will work without PXE based on what you’re telling me.


Regards,

Sam

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The default behavior of the ISO is to boot from local media after a delay

Look at a file : <iso root>/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
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When the system boots up and loads the ISO, I thought it would automatically force the system to load a profile. In theory since there is no OS installed, it will start the OS installation without having you select from the cobbler menu.



Is this feature not available for non-pxe boot?



Dan White <ygor at comcast.net<mailto:ygor at comcast.net>> wrote:


So what is happening that should not happen ?

Contrarywise, what is not happening that should ?
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It’s there …


[root at phl-00-cobbler iso]# cobbler profile list
   ORACLE


Regards,

Sam

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What does the command "cobbler profile list" return ?

If one of the lines is not "ORACLE", then that is your first problem.
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Not sure what I’m missing but I’m attempting to automatically install the OS with our new blade systems using a cobbler iso (generated by buildiso). The cobbler menu shows up with the list of available systems, but I want it to automatically install when it loads the ISO. I don’t have DHCP hence the use of the buildiso command.

I added a new system by running the following command. Please note, the install works fine when I select the system but that’s not what I want. Notice I have the “mac” specified and I went as far as using the mac address of eth0 as the name for the system. Both times, I’m greeted with the menu and I’m forced to choose.

cobbler system add --name=blade1 –mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --profile=ORACLE --interface=bond0 --interface-type=bond --bonding-opts="mode=6 miimon=1000" --ip-address=172.31.20.45 --hostname=blade1.domain.com --ksmeta='server_type=DB disk_layout=BLADES_ORACLE' --subnet=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.31.20.250 --kopts='ksdevice=eth0 ip=172.31.20.45 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=172.31.10.220 gateway=172.31.20.250' --static=1



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