I believe I got it working !
I'm using the mac address instead of uuid as the mac address is a
machine-unique value I can easily access.
I will post details of my implementation (cobbler snippet tweaks and all) once
I am confident I have all the details covered. "Pay it forward !!"
Thanks for the pointers.
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in
the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
----- Gary Larizza <g...@puppetlabs.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Dan White <y...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > OK, let me try to see if I have it. Please correct any misteaks I make in
> > this attempt.
> >
> > The paragraph pointed to by the link says that a certname is "...The name
> > to use when handling certificates. Defaults to the fully qualified domain
> > name."
> >
> > The top of the page also says that configuration settings can be specified
> > in puppet.conf or on the command line.
> >
> > So I conclude I need to put "certname=<something unique>" into
> > /etc/puppet/puppet.conf of the client machine and the same unique name into
> > a node on the puppetmaster.
> >
> > It is my hope to generate the client conf as part of the
> > cobbler/kickstart/puppet setup I am trying to establish. I am thinking that
> > I should have access to facter in the kickstart %post section, so I should
> > be able to make it happen in front of the snippet that generates the puppet
> > certificates and signing request.
> >
> > Does that shot hit the target ?
> >
> > Thanks for your help and pointers.
> >
>
> Yep, that's it. Whatever UID you use in puppet.conf in the "certname = UID"
> setting is how the puppet master will refer to your node. So, if on the
> client you do 'certname = 12345' then on the puppet master server your node
> declaration should be "node 12345 { include ssh }".
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