It would be a great enhancement if administrators could choose whether they want to activate the node immediately after installation or should it be put on maintenance.

This might seem a triviality but in our case (and I guess most people) have different networks for different services. For example, for storage we have a bond interface of two physical interfaces and that's a different subnet than the one employed for service.

When a node is installed, immediately afterwards is activated. If we don't configure the bond mentioned above before installation, the node will try to mount storage using the only one configured interface, which will be rejected as it has no permissions to do so. This will result in node being stuck on different states (Activating, Connecting, Non operational...) which will in turn produce a few fencing attempts.

We can surely configure the bond manually so it doesn't hang, but it's much more comfortable to configure interfaces from the WebAdmin, but for that we need the host to be on maintenance and eventually not having been activated, so errors don't occur.

I think *reinstalling* the node already allows this (there's an option to not activate host upon reinstallation). Would you consider this useful to be added to the host installation dialog as well?