On 10/14/2010 3:47 AM, Michal Ludvig wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm installing Puppet on RHEL5 systems using KickStart but struggle > with the first boot. > > Here's my situation: > 1) kickstart installs the system, including puppet from our local repo > 2) after reboot I have to login and set the hostname and IP > 3) then run puppet, register it with the server and bring in the config > 4) configure puppet for automatic start > > I have to configure the hostname before running puppet for the first > time, otherwise it makes its certificate with a wrong name (either > 'localhost' or something supplied by dhcp). I'm aware this is not > really a Puppet question but how do you guys do this? How do you > (semi-)automatically configure the hostname before running puppet for > the first time?
At Powerset we generated the hostname from LLDP information. All of our hosts were named "switch-port" which was set during installation: custom installer basically partitioned and formatted, mounted disks, copied down a tarball of the current "gold master" image, then mucked around in /mnt/etc setting the hostname and other bits. Upon reboot, puppet was run for the first time out of /etc/rc.local doing the rest. Cheers, Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
