[cobbler] A question on "management interfaces"

Jörgen Maas jorgen.maas at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 14:56:36 UTC 2014


Hi Michael,

I've added the management interface field a while back. It was added for
the buildiso feature so that Cobbler could create a valid isolinux boot
line to setup static networking for multihomed systems.It can very well be
used in other places.... but i'm not sure.

Anyway as I intended it; it's the interface that gets used for the
provisioning process. You can specify more than one; there really is no
input validation on that kind of stuff.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Michael Tiernan <mtiernan at mit.edu> wrote:

> I know what *I* think of when I see the button for "Management
> Interface" when configuring a system but I'm curious about a couple of
> things and I suspect getting them well documented for those who come
> after us might be a good idea.
>
> So, I'm going to pose them here in the hopes that it stirs others to
> consider the info and/or answers and maybe allow a dialog where this
> stuff gets more understanding across the board.
>
> 1) What exactly does cobbler think a management interface is?
>
> 2) Are there any restrictions or conditions on declaring something as a
> management interface?
>
> 3) Does cobbler allow me to have more than one management interface?
> (Either by error or design.)
>
> 4) Does value of the flag for "management interface" get used *anywhere*
> else inside of cobbler or is it only an indicator?
>
> 5) What effect might I expect to see on a system that does NOT have any
> interface declared as a management interface?
>
> Thanks for everyone's time!
>
> _______________________________________________
> cobbler mailing list
> cobbler at lists.fedorahosted.org
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
>



-- 
Grtz,
Jörgen Maas
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/attachments/20140923/e0b81fdd/attachment.html>


More information about the cobbler mailing list