[sisuite-users] ANNOUNCE: New version of pxeconfig/pxemenu utilities (4.1.0)

[Bas v. d. V. <ba...@sa...>]

4.1.0:
 * Added two new configuration options for pxeconfig.conf file: closes #17
   - client_script_hook_add    : The script that must be run when we create
                                 a pxeconfig file for a host(s). This option
                                 replaces client_script_hook.
   - client_script_hook_remove : The script that must be run when we remove
                                 a pxeconfig file for a host(s)

 Both options are useful for firewall setups. To open/close ports.

Reported by: Ramon Bastiaans (SARA)
Fixed by: Bas van der Vlies




=====================================================================
For more info about the package see the pxeconfig homepage:
    * https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/pxeconfig

You can download the latest release from:
* ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/outgoing/pxeconfig.tar.gz


Here is the README:
=====================================================================
PXE-utilities
-------------

This is a release of the SARA package of utilities that we use to boot
our nodes with PXE-enabled network cards. This was developed because we
always want to use the PXE-enabled network card as our first boot
device. With pxelinux, which is a derivative of syslinux, you can
specify with a PXE configuration file how the node must boot. This
configuration is placed in, e.g. '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory.

The PXE-menu tools are used to control the booting of networked computers
directly from the computer's console at the BIOS level before any operating
system has been loaded.  This is extremely useful for diagnostic purposes,
or for selecting an operating system installation method, of an individual
computer.  For further information please read the files README-pxemenu and
INSTALL-pxemenu.

In our setup we have a default setup. The default setup is to boot from
harddisk. When a node boots it fetches the default configuration file
and the configuration file tells the node to boot from the harddisk.
This setup is used for nodes that have already been installed by
systemimager or sali.

At SARA we have developed the following  strategy how to install a fresh
node.

  1) The ip-address in our setup is known for the new node. So
     we make a link in the '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg' directory to a
     pxe config file which tells that it has to fetch the kernel en
     root filesystem from our bootserver, eg:
        0A000A02 ---> default.node_install (10.0.10.2)

  2) The client starts and  uses the systemimager or sali software to
     install the node. The last line of installation script connects to a
     daemon on the bootserver. This daemon will remove the PXE config
     filefor this node.

  3) The node reboots and will use the default pxe config file which
     will instruct the node to boot from harddisk.

This release contains the following utilities:

      pxeconfigd)
           This is daemon that removes the pxe configuration file of a node.

      pxeconfig)
            With this program we can specify which pxe config file
            a node or nodes must use. This utility will create the links
            in '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg'

      hexls)
            Is a utility that diplays a directory, and, if in this directory
            contains HEX files, it will convert them to IP-numbers.

Comments or Suggestions mail them to:
pxeconfig at sara dot nl
http://www.sara.nl for more info about SARA.


-- 
********************************************************************
*  Bas van der Vlies                    e-mail: ba...@sa...       *
*  SARA - Academic Computing Services   Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
********************************************************************

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest
Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in  U.S. and Canada
$10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing
Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store
http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev
_______________________________________________
sisuite-users mailing list
sis...@li...
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users