Re: [Symbolic-users] Provisioning and managing physical machines

[Luca F. <lfo...@by...>]

On Sat, 2009-08-08 at 22:23 +0300, Stas Oskin wrote:
> Hi Marco.
> 
> Thanks for through explanation.
> 
> Just to summarize:

[...]


> With the version 1.4 that I'm downloading, I will be able to provision
> physical machines. 

yes! :)


[...]

> Is it possible with 1.4 - or I have to externally define entries in
> cobbler there as well? 

You need an external cobbler server with some configurations. At least
profiles. Symbolic can retrieve it and create custom system that are,
using the mac address of the machines, applied on the single machine you
are provisioning.

[...]

> So I need to manually pre-load all the operation systems to Cobbler
> (as usually I do when working with it)?

as I wrote before, in cobbler you need just the profiles.

[...]

> I must have a cluster for cobbler to work? Or it can work separately? 

No, cobbler is just a server for provision. Can be whatever. You just
need to reach to it with symbolic.

> 
>         For the moment with Symbolic you can just invoke the puppet
>         synchronization on a selected machine.
>         For the next releases we have previewed to use puppet directly
>         during
>         machine creation:
>         
>         New Machine -> Select that you want to create a WebSever on
>         Centos 5
>         
>         In this example cobbler will provision your machine with
>         centos 5 and
>         puppet will install necessary services to create a WebServer
>         (httpd,
>         tomcat, mysql, ...).
>         We are working on these things to make really easy the
>         management of a
>         computer infrastructure.
> 
> This will work in Symbolic 1.5?

In the 1.4 you can just launch puppet on a machine (if installed and
configured), for 1.5 symbolic will allow you to choose a configuration
puppet profile during provisioning.


> I downloaded and updated - but it doesn't work with the user/password
> root/pass (the ones I had since the 1.3 version).
> Any idea?

It's weird. How many machine do you have in your database? 

Luca