Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1258061
[RFE] PXELess Discovery
Last modified: 2017-02-23 14:47:17 EST
As a user of Satellite 6, I would like a boot disk option that provides the following: * A single ISO that allows me to provision a system against any configured hostgroup on the Satellite. * The ISO would not require me to pre-create a host in Satellite. * The ISO would allow me to provide a user provided IP address or use DHCP to find the Satellite server. * The ISO will be generated on the Satellite * The ISO will provide a means to provision via a Capsule * The functionality to generate the ISO will be exposed via the API, UI & CLI. * Functionality to provide a local IP and VLAN to the target host
This sounds like a super useful feature to have baked into the default RHEL installer ISO's[1]. An anaconda add-on could support this for RHEL7, RHEL6 would be more custom. But some support for a mechanism of discovery of Satellite servers (or RHCI, or Sat5, or 3rd party tools) would be useful. For RHEL7, an anaconda add on could discover[1] a Satellite on the network, and offer to register to it (easiest would be via the kickstart config it creates for use by initial-setup, but at somepoint supporting registration directly from anaconda could be possible). [1] If not baked into a default install of RHEL itself. With reasonable security precautions, attempting to discover a Sat server on boot would be reasonable [2] Discovery mechanism unknown, but there are plenty of options. It would be possible to even support verifying a discovered Sat is verified by RH (with a RH signed server cert pinned to a discovery specific ca, or something signed with a RH provided gpg key baked into anaconda.)
Adrian, thanks for comments. We are done with the feature, it will be z-stream Feature Errata. More info here: http://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_discovery/4.1/index.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKZppAuz6kQ I think it will work in your use case just fine.
Bryan, can you correct flags? I am preparing to merge the stuff downstream now. Looks like the flags are incorrect.
As per the original description, I'm not familiar with any functionality on: * The functionality to generate the ISO will be exposed via the API, UI & CLI. Can someone please elaborate what does that mean ? and if it exists in satellite 6.1.4 composes ?
That's not valid requirement, discovery images are not generated by Satellite6, but shipped with it. We have the remaster script for that.
Following requirement in RFE description doesn't fall in current implementation: - The functionality to generate the ISO will be exposed via the API, UI & CLI - The ISO will be generated on the Satellite Other than above, all are implemented in pxe-less feature. If anyone expecting above two requirements then please file new RFE. Moving this bz to verified as all requirements (except above two) are implemented in Sat 6.1.5 compose2(Satellite-6.1.0-RHEL-7-20151125.0)
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:2622