Multi-system administration with Func

Posted Jun 20, 2008 10:11 UTC (Fri) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989)
In reply to: Multi-system administration with Func by Burgundavia
Parent article: Multi-system administration with Func

Cobbler, for a quick glance, sounds like a souped-up version of the Solaris 10 Jumpstart
feature, which can make rolling out new installations somewhat easier.
This comment doesn't really add much, but I'm hoping there is someone with more Cobbler
experience who knows Jumpstart that can pontificate.

Multi-system administration with Func

Posted Jun 26, 2008 8:08 UTC (Thu) by joib (subscriber, #8541) [Link]

I have no experience of jumpstart, but I believe it's something more like redhat kickstart,
no? I.e. a system for automated installs with a file containing answers to all the questions
that are usually asked when going through the interactive installer.

cobbler is more like a system for managing kickstarts and pxe boot infrastructure. It has 3
basic types of objects; distros (pxe boot images), profiles (associates a distro with a
specific kickstart file) and finally systems (associates a profile with a MAC and IP address).

So you create a bunch of systems with cobbler, and cobbler can generate a dhcp config (based
on a template you can modify e.g. to include non-cobblerized entries), sets up a tftp server
etc. Then you just PXE boot the systems and they are automatically installed with the profiles
you have specified.