Subscribe a kickstarted server to groups in PE dashboard

[Juan Jose Blanco]

Hello,

 

We are provisioning servers with Spacewalk and kickstart profiles. Servers are installed with pe-agent included and, after reboot, puppet agent is run in the server, which is added to groups "default" and "mcollective" in puppet dashboard.

 

Depending on their types, we would like to add servers to custom groups in dashboard (appserver, intranet_server, etc.) when installation takes place and no later.

 

One alternative could be to include a post script in the kickstart profile that somehow invokes the proper commands "rake node:addgroup" in the puppet dashboard, but we are reluctant to use ssh or any other similar tool.

 

Is there any other way to do this aggregation of groups using existing PE commands, configuration files or APIs?

 

 

Thank you.

 

Kind regards

Juan José Blanco