[Spacewalk-list] Bare Metal Provisioning with Spacewalk/Cobbler

[Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)]

I've been provisioning both Vmware virtual machines and physical hardware successfully with Spacewalk and it's great. Our process is still not as graceful as I want it to be because we have to provision our servers in a specific VLAN and then migrate the server to it's final destination on the network after provisioning is complete. Cobbler has been doing a splendid job of configuring the new network information when I add the system record at the command line.

I was wondering if there is a way to add cobbler system records via spacewalk? It gets a little cumbersome having to switch between CLI and web UI in order to get a new system provisioned.

Thanks!

Greg

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[Milan Zazrivec]

> I've been provisioning both Vmware virtual machines and physical hardware
> successfully with Spacewalk and it's great. Our process is still not as
> graceful as I want it to be because we have to provision our servers in a
> specific VLAN and then migrate the server to it's final destination on the
> network after provisioning is complete. Cobbler has been doing a splendid
> job of configuring the new network information when I add the system
> record at the command line.
>
> I was wondering if there is a way to add cobbler system records via
> spacewalk? It gets a little cumbersome having to switch between CLI and
> web UI in order to get a new system provisioned.

API: system.createSystemRecord() will create cobbler system record for
a registered system. Not sure if that's what you're looking for though.

-MZ

[Wojtak, Greg (Superfly)]

I saw that, but like you said that only works on already registered
(therefore already provisioned) systems. I guess I was looking for an
HTML form or something that got the necessary information to add a cobbler
system record then ran the appropriate cobbler system add command behind
the scenes or something. It's kind of a chicken and the egg problem I
guess.

One other thing I did notice, not sure if it's a bug or not, but when I
create a cobbler system record on the provisioning tab, systems that have
a bonded network interface only allow you to choose bond0 (or bondx) as
the interface. I chose that and the privisioning image that is
transferred down does not know how to handle bonded ethernet interfaces.
That would be fine and I can eth0, but that is not a choice in the
dropdown.