Kyle_Weir's Posts

I would think this wouldn't be too hard, excluding the networking issues. My thought would be to have multiple kickstarts, each profile as it is needs to have the kickstart specified - it's jus... See more...
I would think this wouldn't be too hard, excluding the networking issues. My thought would be to have multiple kickstarts, each profile as it is needs to have the kickstart specified - it's just a matter of having the kickstart file/location change depending on which script you want - this would need to specified per server before hand. - For the moment I would think it'd be easier to have multiple EDA servers. The other thought is that I believe you can specify in a kickstart script to look at the SN/ and other information in the BIOS of the server. I'll look around again to see if I can find it, but at least in HP, you could specifiy a location field, and then you could have scripts for certain models/locations.
I was wondering if you were going to add an update system to the app. It's kinda a pain to re-setup the app every new version or change. Since at least right now it seems to be mainly php changes... See more...
I was wondering if you were going to add an update system to the app. It's kinda a pain to re-setup the app every new version or change. Since at least right now it seems to be mainly php changes would you release just those changes as something we could download, and apply/replace on the appliance?
As an FYI On Leo's Rambling blog () he found a neat way to have one kickstart file used for multiple servers, by using the serial# of the server which he gets from dmidecode command which ... See more...
As an FYI On Leo's Rambling blog () he found a neat way to have one kickstart file used for multiple servers, by using the serial# of the server which he gets from dmidecode command which is part of the ESX install. The other thought is to use a mac address as the distinguisher to configure each server. As an fyi, I am getting the network guys to set the default vlan for me, were going to make the changes later today and then test before we do it to all of our c7000 chassis.
Brugh,. I figured out the problem on my setup, and at this point I'm shelving EDA, sorry. It's not the appliance (it's actually great) It's because of the networking issues, basical... See more...
Brugh,. I figured out the problem on my setup, and at this point I'm shelving EDA, sorry. It's not the appliance (it's actually great) It's because of the networking issues, basically I have several c7000's each which have etherchannel trunks to them, which are passed to the blades. The blades will pxe boot to a vlan 80 which get's them to boot off of EDA, but then on "stage 2" which is the redhat install, I haven't figured out how to get it to connect to VLAN 80 to get access to the image, and kickstart files. I have a feeling this is what you were talking about Brugh. So unless there's a way to get that to work, I doubt I'll be using anything that uses a PXE boot. I can't change the networking on the c7000 as it get's complicated and adds time the idea here is to limit the time spent on doing this stuff. It would be handy if the appliance would make a iso file you could download/burn and use as well. For when you have a machine in a secured environment or like me have problems with the network.
Brugh, Sorry for butting in here, but I am having the exact same problem, where it looks like the kickstart file is not kicking off. What logs can I get to help sort this out? Is there som... See more...
Brugh, Sorry for butting in here, but I am having the exact same problem, where it looks like the kickstart file is not kicking off. What logs can I get to help sort this out? Is there some data on the EDA server that would help? or would it be on the ESX host. I have 24/7 access to several servers that I'm having this problem on. The servers are on their own vlan, there's no other DHCP servers. and the ESX hosts to be installed and the vm are on the same vlan. I am using the latest build of ESX 3.5 update 2 As an FYI- when I try to do the HTTP install to the EDA server it puts extra slashes in ie. - it gets stuck on this (probably the 1st file. I tried every which way of putting the path in and it always puts an extra slash in. - which may be a bug in the ESX build, but it may be a reason why the kickstart and other things aren't working correctly. I'm an avid linux user but I haven't had the chance to work with PXE boots before. The main reasons I've seen problems like this are when the linux build is a little screwed up. Let me know what you think.And if there's any info/logs I can get to help sort this out.