[katello-devel] Foreman Registration Design

[Lukas Zapletal]

Oh I read it properly now - you manually select the option from the PXE
boot menu.

I think this is doable in Foreman and we could eventually support it.

LZ

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:11:04AM +0100, Miroslav Suchy wrote:
> On 12.12.2012 19:26, Bryan Kearney wrote:
> >[1] https://fedorahosted.org/katello/wiki/ForemanRegistrationDesign
> 
> 
> > SysAdmin? racks server hardware and notes MAC Address.
> 
> When I had to provision HW in past, I never knew the MAC address
> before booting. Probably Dell, IBM or Fujitsu is writing it
> somewhere on box. But the commodity hardware did not have written it
> on box. And I do not recall it on Dell either, but I'm not 100%
> sure.
> 
> What I like on Satellite was, that you can create activation key and
> then assign it to kickstart profile. And you can then boot up
> machine with that kickstart profile:
> 
> Ie. tftp record would be:
> LABEL rhel60.x86_64.web-server.ks
>   KERNEL
> yourhostname.redhat.com::linux-install/rhel-x86_64-server-6/vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=yourhostname.redhat.com::linux-install/rhel-x86_64-server-6/initrd.img ks=http://yourhostname.redhat.com/ks/cfg/org/1/label/rhel-x86_64-webserver-6
> 
> 
> And when provisioning machine I would just choose boot from PXE and
> in menu choose label rhel60.x86_64.server.ks and it will be
> provisioned using kickstart profile rhel-x86_64-webserver-6 and use
> associated activation key (which mean i.e. install rhel6 in
> noninteractive mode, install httpd and deploy previously created
> configuration keys)
> 
> Can we add this use case to this Design as well?
> 
> Mirek
> 
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Later,

 Lukas "lzap" Zapletal
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