[cobbler] Enabling pxe boot option via ipmi?

Alan Evangelista alanoe at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 12 21:28:09 UTC 2014


On 08/12/2014 03:36 PM, Jennifer Patrick wrote:
> Hiya.
>
> Just wondering if anyone has figured out a way via the API, or how to 
> show-horn it into the web-interface, to enable cobbler to set a pxe 
> boot flag on a system.  Currently in cobbler we can do the equivalent of:
>
> ipmitool -H 1.2.3.4 -U USER -P PASS chassis power on
> ipmitool -H 1.2.3.4 -U USER -P PASS chassis power off
>
> for powering on/off...
>
>
> But can we enable a way to do:
> ipmitool -H 1.2.3.4 -U USER -P PASS chassis bootdev pxe   ?
>
> That would allow us to flag systems for booting off the network 
> interface upon the next reboot, and that way, we don't always have to 
> have the network device set as the first boot device in the bios. 
>  (The method that we currently use)
>

It should work. We will probably implement the same thing soon. The only 
diff is we will support x86 and Power architectures.

You can run this ipmi command automatically when user restarts the 
system (easier for user) or you can create a new option in web UI.


Regards,
Alan Evangelista



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