<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/1/24 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott_stone@trendmicro.com">scott_stone@trendmicro.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
here's our situation. We have datacenters all over. We have maybe 1 guy who is local on-site, all our other ops people are thousands of miles away. We rack 100 servers, let's say. mostly this is done by consultants who go in and rack and cable things. We assign static IPMI IP addresses based on rack location, so that's all our ops people know.<br>
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Now they go to inventory all these machines - they boot them through the IPMI console into a minimal linux environment of my own design that inventories the hardware and sends an xmlrpc call to our inventory database with this info. So now these 100 anonymous machines are identifiable on the network.. how? they have no hostname, no operating system with a DUID, only the interface MAC addresses to uniquely identify them. This is where DHCPv4 works well, the ops people can then go into our database and find the unprovisioned hosts by MAC, and assign IP/hostname info. The automation then populates DHCPv4 and DNS tables with the appropriate information, and the machines can then be kickstarted with their correct network values set.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>Hi, sorry if this is a naive view. But, doesn't auto-assignment with EUID-64 suffixes attends your needs? This way you'll have a fixed IPv6 address, which haves a strong association with the MAC Address, and better, is predictable if you know the MAC address of the interfaces.<br>
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