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[ale] System Management Card
- Subject: [ale] System Management Card
- From: vernard at gmail.com (Vernard Martin)
- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 12:32:46 -0400
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On 8/8/2015 8:06 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
> That was a windows C&C process that got feed a very wrong group of
> systems to "deploy". Heh, heh. One server group ran payroll. THAT got
> fixed damn fast!
>
> Yes, that can be a mess if the configs are wrong. You can have a
> custom pxe boot for each MAC address and a default that only does a
> local boot
>
but you have to be very careful with having servers set to PXE boot
system by default. All it takes is a very aggressive kickstart setup
slightly misconfigured system to have your entire VMware server stack
get reloaded with Fedora :-)
But for cluster nodes, works just fine. Take a look into GEDI as well,
unfortunately hosted at sourceforge.net.
http://gedi-tools.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gedi-tools/files/gedi-documentation/1/
Works like a charm. of course, you can do the same thing with cobbler as
well if you want to build the infrastructure yourself.
V