Monitoring kickstart install status

[Chun Tat David Chu]

Hi Hugh,

Thanks for your input.  I will toy with your idea in my environment.

Thanks again!

- David

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Hugh Brown <hbrown at divms.uiowa.edu> wrote:

> On 05/04/2011 01:11 PM, Chun Tat David Chu wrote:
>
>> Hi Hugh,
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback.  Our reporting is hoping to be a percentage and
>> the load time would probably be around 10 mins or so.  I like your idea
>> about monitoring both anaconda.log and install.log.
>>
>> Would putting something like "I'm done" in the last line of %post would
>> ensure that's the last thing that is being executed by anaconda? or that's
>> just close enough to being the last thing?
>>
>> Thanks for your valuable opinions.
>>
>> - David
>>
>>
>
> The scripts that are run from %post are effectively the last thing that
> happens (that we have any control over).  So you could put another python
> script or shell script in %post that would contact your monitoring server to
> indicate completion.
>
> For example, in looking at a machine that just loaded, the last line in
> anaconda.log is time stamped 12:07:18.  The log files that I create from
> scripts within %post are timestamped from 12:07 to 12:14.
>
> The next available time to indicate completion would be to drop a
> "firstboot" style script into the newly installed machine and have it report
> after the reboot.  After it reports, it could remove/disable itself.
>
>
> Hugh
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