[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler-1.0.1-2 - build problem using koan

[Adam Rosenwald]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Tom Brown wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hmm, I'm not sure I understand the question.    All kernel options 
>>> given to cobbler settings, distros, profiles, and systems end up 
>>> used by koan.
>>>
>>> Can you elaborate?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> on a rebuild IP, mask and gateway info thats in cobbler does not get 
>> pulled by koan and inserted onto the grub command line unless you 
>> specify the --kopts when you provision a system or hand it to koan at 
>> the rebuild time.
>
> If you have those variables stored on the system object's --kopts, you 
> just invoke koan as:
>
> koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self 
> --system=this_system_name
>
> If the mac address is in Cobbler, it's smart enough to auto-find the 
> system, so you can just do:
>
> koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self
>
> I think what you're saying is if the network parameters are not in 
> --kopts, but are stored on the interface, they don't show up in --kopts.
> This is true.
>
> Before we used to have a parameter to auto-discover the network 
> details from the local system and append them to the kernel options 
> line to eliminate DHCP, however due to some python version 
> incompatibilies we had to remove that feature.   If that is 
> interesting, this is something that we could work on cleaning up and 
> adding back.
>
> Another option would be to add in support for just using the IP info 
> in cobbler and adding /that/ to --kopts implicitly.
>
> Perhaps this would look like:
>
> koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self --use-static-interface=0
>
> All of these problems of course go away when you have DHCP :)
>
> --Michael
>
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What about auto-discovery of IP, netmask, gateway when explicitly 
performing a koan --replace-self operation?   The discovered values can 
then be appended to and/or override the koan kopts string. This seems 
like the most logical approach, given that this is needed only when not 
using dhcp.

-A.