From: Mayes, L. <lee...@hp...> - 2007-06-06 23:28:36
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Hello All, One thing I (and others) have been thinking about for a while is a 'replay' feature for System Designer. While 100% unrelated to dploy, some of the API's could be exploited. It's also a different slice on Dan Mile's multi-serial number SIM patch (which is almost ready to check in, preseed is giving me a bit of a fit). I called this replay, though it's probably not the best name for it. I've got a little page up for you to look at, comments/criticisms/feedback in general appreciated: http://mayeses.com/temp/replay/ Does it look useful? Anything missing? It's a trivial change to the back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with Dan's SIM changes. Best Regards, Lee -- Lee Mayes Portfolio Delivery Engineering - Infrastructure Services / LinuxCOE Atlanta, GA=20 |
From: Daniel M. <dan...@hp...> - 2007-06-07 13:07:30
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On Wednesday 06 June 2007 5:26:38 pm Mayes, Lee wrote: > Does it look useful? Anything missing? It's a trivial change to the > back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with > Dan's SIM changes. ...Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm not clear about what this modification does that "cp" doesn't do. Are the ISOs that replay generates different from eachother? |
From: Lee M. <lee...@hp...> - 2007-06-08 20:17:04
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Daniel Miles wrote: > On Wednesday 06 June 2007 5:26:38 pm Mayes, Lee wrote: > >> Does it look useful? Anything missing? It's a trivial change to the >> back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with >> Dan's SIM changes. >> > > ...Maybe I'm missing the point but I'm not clear about what this modification > does that "cp" doesn't do. Are the ISOs that replay generates different from > eachother? > Exactly. We have mass deployments in data centers that do not allow PXE or DHCP. I know that sounds odd, but that's where it's at. If you feed replay the same file, you'll get the same ISO. But you can tweak this file for things like hostname/IP and re-toss it, vs. walking through the GUI for each unique ISO you need to generate. That's the main attraction and feature IMO. There's a sample use-case on the web page. Best Regards, Lee |
From: Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...> - 2007-06-19 16:09:07
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Mayes, Lee said on Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:26:38PM -0400: > Does it look useful? Yes. In fact it's an easy way also for me to do a derivative from a master configuration. Example, I create the master for what we want as a standard RHEL4U5 install, and then the infrastructure team just needs to derive that image for other install. With replay, it's very easy at the CLI. > Anything missing? Can we report bugs on a non committed work ;-) > It's a trivial change to the > back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with > Dan's SIM changes. Great ! I'm sure other people will find a way to use it as well that you do not even planned (beauty of FLOSS :-) Bruno. -- Linux Profession Lead EMEA / Open Source Evangelist \ HP C&I EMEA IET http://www.mondorescue.org / HP/Intel Solution Center \ http://hpintelco.net Des infos sur Linux? http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://www.hp.com/linux La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org |
From: Mayes, L. <lee...@hp...> - 2007-06-19 16:15:56
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FWIW, I finished it on the plane coming back from CA last week, and integrated Dan's serial number file batch'er into the SuSE and Debian backends as well. It's all checked in now except for the script you call it with :), I need to find a good home for that in our tree. Bryang, any preference? It's a standalone perl script you can run anywhere, it contacts a sysdes instance over HTTP via wget/Perl LWP. Lee=20 -----Original Message----- From: Cornec, Bruno (Linux Consultant)=20 Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:07 PM To: Mayes, Lee Cc: lin...@li... Subject: Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] LinuxCOE 'replay' feature Mayes, Lee said on Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:26:38PM -0400: > Does it look useful? =20 Yes. In fact it's an easy way also for me to do a derivative from a master configuration. Example, I create the master for what we want as a standard RHEL4U5 install, and then the infrastructure team just needs to derive that image for other install. With replay, it's very easy at the CLI. > Anything missing? =20 Can we report bugs on a non committed work ;-) > It's a trivial change to the > back-ends, and when it's all ready we'll check-in the lot along with=20 > Dan's SIM changes. Great ! I'm sure other people will find a way to use it as well that you do not even planned (beauty of FLOSS :-) Bruno. --=20 Linux Profession Lead EMEA / Open Source Evangelist \ HP C&I EMEA IET http://www.mondorescue.org / HP/Intel Solution Center \ http://hpintelco.net Des infos sur Linux? http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://www.hp.com/linux La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org |
From: Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...> - 2007-06-19 16:25:19
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Mayes, Lee said on Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:15:31PM -0400: > I need to find a good home for that in our tree. > Bryang, any preference? It's a standalone perl script you can run > anywhere, it contacts a sysdes instance over HTTP via wget/Perl LWP. Maybe time to create a contrib subdir ? Bruno. -- Linux Profession Lead EMEA / Open Source Evangelist \ HP C&I EMEA IET http://www.mondorescue.org / HP/Intel Solution Center \ http://hpintelco.net Des infos sur Linux? http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://www.hp.com/linux La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.org |