perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Trey Dockendorf <>]

Jason,

Thanks, that does help.  The steps in that document are slightly different 
than what I'm finding in the 3.3.2 image.  For example the ks file in that 
PDF doesn't exist.

I found a kickstart file in isolinux/initrd.img, named 
'centos6-netinstall.cfg'.  Should that file and a CentOS 6.5 initrd be enough 
to kickstart a perfsonar box as if it was NetInstalled?  I also noticed the 
bulk of the NetInstall ISO's size is "images/install.img" but I don't see it 
referenced in any of the cfg files or the kickstart file...so likely some 
normal syslinux behavior being used that I'm just unfamiliar with.

Thanks,
- Trey

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Trey Dockendorf 
Systems Analyst I 
Texas A&M University 
Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies 
Phone: (979)458-2396 
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Zurawski" 
> <>
> To: "Trey Dockendorf" 
> <>
> Cc: 
> 
> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 4:14:19 PM
> Subject: Re: [perfsonar-user] PXE booting NetInstall & automated install
> 
> 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 
> <>
> 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
> > 
> > =============================
> > 
> > Trey Dockendorf
> > Systems Analyst I
> > Texas A&M University
> > Academy for Advanced Telecommunications and Learning Technologies
> > Phone: (979)458-2396
> > Email: 
> > 
> > Jabber: 
> > 
>