perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jason Zurawski <>]

Hi Trey;

The perfSONAR project has found that everyone does things slightly different, 
and as a result of that we try to make the toolkit as fungible as possible to 
support all of the various approaches to configuration management.  We know 
of people using puppet and cfengine, they may be able to post recipes that 
are specific to their use case.  

I can note that engineers from Penn State provided us a very detailed write 
up of the approach they took to netbooting images for their statewide 
deployment, I have posted a PDF on this page:

http://psps.perfsonar.net/toolkit/use-cases.html

Hope this helps to get you started, and hopefully others can chime in as 
well.  

Thanks;

-jason

On Jul 21, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Trey Dockendorf 
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 wrote:

> Is it possible to PXE boot the NetInstall CD, and if so does anyone have 
> some steps on making the ISO into something that can be used with PXE?
> 
> I manage all my systems and all provisioning through Foreman, so it would 
> be ideal if our PerfSONAR boxes could also be provisioned within Foreman.
> 
> Does PerfSONAR support any kind of automated installation, or is it 
> feasible to install the software on top of a stock CentOS 6.5 host and have 
> it function like it was installed via NetInstall method?  It would be very 
> useful if I could manage our PerfSONAR boxes using Puppet :)
> 
> Thanks,
> - Trey
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> Trey Dockendorf 
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> Texas A&M University 
> Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies 
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