[caiman-discuss] Automated Installation Requirements

[Sarah Jelinek]

Hi Mike,

Thank you for taking the time to review this..

Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On Feb 7, 2008 12:51 PM, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>>         -Will not provide a separate interface for use to specify system
>>         configuration parameters.
>>                 -Will try to automatically configure system based on data
>>                 gleaned from network
>>     
>
> What do you mean by this?  NWAM is a bit too magic to be forced in an
> enterprise data center environment where configuration needs to be
> deterministic, not based upon random bits that may or may not be
> responding at the particular time that I install a server.  For
> example, if a machine is for some reason equipped with a wifi adapter
> I really don't want it to make the Starbucks next door into a gateway
> to my data center.
>   
No, I didn't mean NWAM. We can glean certain things from the network 
like timezone, locale, etc... we don't do this today with Indiana and we 
don't do this today unless the user specifies a networked 
configuration.  So, what we can automatically determine via a network 
connection we will. Using NWAM in an enterprise won't be a requirement, 
but using a network interface to get data at bootup will help us 
minimize the questions we must have answered,either interactively or 
not. The user will be able to specify configuration data if they choose 
which will override any or part of the automated configuration.

Does this make sense?


Regards,
sarah
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