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check if firmware updates need to happen
- BIOS, IDRAC, DISK/PERC
NETDB needs for the node:
a. NetDB must have the MAC address
b. NetDB must have these dhcp-opt options: --options filename=pxelinux.0,next-server=lnxpapa,tftp-server-name=lnxpapa
c. NetDB must have dhcp enabled
d. Determine the pxeboot-kickstart to use. There are many!
and we should agree on which one to use. I'd recommend we make that part
of the netdb record the way we do with some newer builds - I think it
helps. See for instance comet2
pxekickit: CentOS7/default.netboot.CentOS7.linux_desktop_22 NOTE I would like to change the attribute name on the netdb record from 'pxekickit' to 'netboot' I came up with the pxekickitit name, it made sense sorta at that time, but now that we will expect to have more than just kickstart builds, think Ubuntu, I think it better to just change this naming convention to netboot.
d. NetDB must have the MAC addressDetermine is there anything special about this machine that needs to be considered
If this is rhel[56] node with a taylor.opts take a look and see if there
is a one to one correstpondence between what taylor.opts is doing on the
node and what we can do in chef. For example, if the pre-cheffed node is
using automounter, then all parties ( unix platform, the user) need to know that no NFS native mounts are supported.
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