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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 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_2
2 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.de. NetDB must have the MAC address
Determine 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 correspondence 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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