[rhn-satellite-users] How to provision using a Satellite server.

[Corelli, Wayne]

All,

I guess this a very basic question. Can the satellite server boot and
provision a client? I see the directory /var/satellite/rhn/kickstart
which seems to imply this. If so is there a doc (the "GOOD" doc) that
explain this?

If not I do have a pxe server, is there a way to make use of this
directory structure in the satellite server.

Thanks,
Wayne

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Wayne,

Post by Corelli, Wayne
Can the satellite server boot and
provision a client? I see the directory /var/satellite/rhn/kickstart
which seems to imply this. If so is there a doc (the "GOOD" doc) that
explain this?

Yep, here's a pointer to the section of the RHN Reference guide on using kickstart:

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn405/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S2-SM-SYSTEM-KICKSTART

Here's a kbase article on baremetal provisioning with Satellite:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_49_5409.shtm

Hope this helps. You'll need to configure your PXE server to use the Satellite
as explained in the first link above.

~m

[Corelli, Wayne]

Mairin,

Thanks for the pointers.

So my satellite server has none of the distrubutions for provisioning installed even though I have every rpm from a complete channel?

The doc says:

"Before creating a distribution, you must make an installation tree available, as described in the Kickstart Installations chapter of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 System Administration Guide. This tree must be located in a public directory on an HTTP or FTP server. "

Wayne



-----Original Message-----
From: Máirín Duffy [mailto:***@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:10 PM
To: Corelli, Wayne
Cc: rhn-satellite-***@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rhn-satellite-users] How to provision using a Satellite server.

Hi Wayne,

Post by Corelli, Wayne
Can the satellite server boot and
provision a client? I see the directory /var/satellite/rhn/kickstart
which seems to imply this. If so is there a doc (the "GOOD" doc) that
explain this?

Yep, here's a pointer to the section of the RHN Reference guide on using kickstart:

https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn405/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S2-SM-SYSTEM-KICKSTART

Here's a kbase article on baremetal provisioning with Satellite:

http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_49_5409.shtm

Hope this helps. You'll need to configure your PXE server to use the Satellite as explained in the first link above.

~m

[Máirín Duffy]

Hi Wayne,

Post by Corelli, Wayne
So my satellite server has none of the distrubutions for provisioning installed even though I have every rpm from a complete channel?
"Before creating a distribution, you must make an installation tree available, as described in the Kickstart Installations chapter of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 System Administration Guide. This tree must be located in a public directory on an HTTP or FTP server. "

It also says: "RHN Satellite Servers already have a tree for each Red Hat
distribution and therefore do not require separate trees. Even if the system
connects through an RHN Proxy Server to get to the Satellite, these trees will
be available for kickstart."

:)

You should be able to go ahead and create kickstart profiles without creating
distributions - they aren't shown in the distributions page on satellite because
they're built in and 'just work.' I believe you can use the distributions page
to create custom distros - the built-in ones are stock RHEL.

~m

[Corelli, Wayne]

Yes...I saw that but it did NOT say where the tree are...
I see know that it leads you tp them if you do not follow the create distrubution note first.


-----Original Message-----
From: Máirín Duffy [mailto:***@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 1:31 PM
To: Corelli, Wayne
Cc: rhn-satellite-***@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rhn-satellite-users] How to provision using a Satellite server.

Hi Wayne,

Post by Corelli, Wayne
So my satellite server has none of the distrubutions for provisioning installed even though I have every rpm from a complete channel?
"Before creating a distribution, you must make an installation tree available, as described in the Kickstart Installations chapter of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 System Administration Guide. This tree must be located in a public directory on an HTTP or FTP server. "

It also says: "RHN Satellite Servers already have a tree for each Red Hat distribution and therefore do not require separate trees. Even if the system connects through an RHN Proxy Server to get to the Satellite, these trees will be available for kickstart."

:)

You should be able to go ahead and create kickstart profiles without creating
distributions - they aren't shown in the distributions page on satellite because
they're built in and 'just work.' I believe you can use the distributions page
to create custom distros - the built-in ones are stock RHEL.

~m