[Fwd: Re: [Ani-users] multiple dhcp user defined options]

[Hagen M. <h.m...@su...>]

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Subject:     Re: [Ani-users] multiple dhcp user defined options
Date:     Wed, 02 Feb 2005 10:47:25 +0100
From:     Hagen Muench <h.m...@su...>
To:     Marc Petitmermet <pet...@ma...>
CC:     ani...@li...
References:     <4b9...@ma...>



hello,

the possibility is to define user classes for the dhcp-options on your
dhcp-server, e.g. (linux dhcpd.conf):

- ---snip---
~   if option user-class =3D "winXPclient" {
~      option ANI-DN "CN=3DComputers,DC=3Danix,DC=3Dch";
~      option ANI-I386 "\\\\server1\\xpi386";
~      option ANI-PAC "\\\\server1\\apack";
~      option ANI-PW "OfeEoXRWa1dyhfkD9S4vbA=3D=3D";
~      option ANI-ACC "anithing";
~   } elsif option user-class =3D "w2kClient" {
~      option ANI-DN "CN=3DComputers,DC=3Danix,DC=3Dch";
~      option ANI-I386 "\\\\server1\\ai386";
~      option ANI-PAC "\\\\server1\\apack";
~      option ANI-PW "OfeEoXRWa1dyhfkD9S4vbA=3D=3D";
~      option ANI-ACC "anithing";
~   } else {
~        option ANI-DN "CN=3DComputers,DC=3Danix,DC=3Dch";
~        option ANI-I386 "\\\\server1\\ai386";
~        option ANI-PAC "\\\\server1\\whatever";
~        option ANI-PW "OfeEoXRWa1dyhfkD9S4vbA=3D=3D";
~        option ANI-ACC "anithing";
~   }
- ---snip---

On the boot-media you have the possibilty to pass a user-class in
config/ani.gf[012]:

- ---snip---
USRCLASS=3Dw2kClient
- ---snip---

The disadvantage of this approach is, that you have to maintain
different boot-media for different client-types. But because the
boot-media is nearly free of maintanance, that isn't really a big problem=
=2E

But there's currently one problem: In the current release the support
for user classes during post-windows installation is buggy (i.e., it
doesn't work -> currently no support!). But it is already coded and
will be released the next weekend (ani-1.1.1).

_
Hagen

Marc Petitmermet wrote:

| dear list members
|
| i want to give ani a try but i have a question about scalability.
| according to the documentation the important user options in
| dhcpd.conf are the following:
|
| option ani-domain-name "ou=3Dcomputers,dc=3Dsubstring,dc=3Dch" ; option
| ani-install-share "\\\\server1\\Ai386" ; option ani-packages-share
| "\\\\server1\\APACK" ; option ani-installer-password
| "MlEhFkH1JMsrhIzUAxieMg=3D=3D" ; option ani-installer-account
| "hanswurst" ;
|
| my problem now is that we have huge subnets where over 10 different
|  groups share the same subnets. because of licensing issues and
| because the groups have their own servers we need some possibility
| to have different ani-domain-name, ani-install-share,
| ani-packages-share, ani-installer-password, ani-installer-account.
|
| is it possible to have e.g. ani1-*, ani2-*, etc. options and where
| is this defined in the ani code?
|
| kind regards, marc
|
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