After some studies i've found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linux
there are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
Il giorno mercoledì 23 gennaio 2013 16:36:53 UTC+1, stefano ciavarella ha
scritto:
After some studies i've found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linux
there are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
Il giorno mercoledì 23 gennaio 2013 16:36:53 UTC+1, stefano ciavarella ha
scritto:
The way we manage it is to pxe boot the windows box and provide a windows
boot image that hands over the full provisioning to SCCM we then have some
magic that calls foreman to let it done the build finished
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak
After some studies i’ve found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linuxthere are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
Il giorno mercoledì 23 gennaio 2013 16:36:53 UTC+1, stefano ciavarella ha
scritto:Hi,
I have one question :"How to provision ms windows server with Foreman ? "…that’s all
thanks in advance for suggestions
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I was able to configure Foreman and MDT to work together relatively easily
using MDT's web service functionality. With this method all you need is
another windows server with MDT and WDS installed (if you need PXE). SCCM
is nice however it is not free, and SCCM is a relative beast to configure
and maintain (former SCCM admin). It's quite a complex system to have
working alongside Foreman. MDT on the other hand is free and readily
available, and supported my Microsoft. You also do not have to
pre-provision the computer in MDT (once configured, you don't touch it
unless you get new hardware or new operating system images).
If anyone needs any more details let me know! I have Foreman/MDT working
well imaging Cisco UCS Blades.
More reading on web services can be found here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn744299.aspx
basic gist is:
MDT can pull XML data from foreman's provisioning page. Simply create an
XML form with all the variables you want (hostname, IP, domain, OU).
Anything you can configure in Foreman can most certainly be configured in
MDT as a variable. For people unfamiliar with foreman (like me) you can
have these provisioning templates be dynamic and unique for each computer
automatically through macros. If anyone needs examples i can post my
provisioning template. It's nothing fancy at all.
Once the templates are created with all the variables, configure the MDT
customsettings.ini to pull from
http://foremanserver.com/unattended/provision using GET (important, default
is POST which will fail). You want to be cautious since it's HTTP, don't
send sensitive information like domain join credentials. If you want to
make the deployment fully automatic within WinPE, dont forget to customize
all of the required variables needed to skip the LiteTouch wizard.
You can do a lot with the built in logic of MDT (single image, baseboard
based driver injection).
Is this roughly accurate?
You use Formeman to start the provisioning, it boots a Windows image,
the Windows boot image connects to SCCM for OS; etc, the OS boots
retrieves a script from Foreman and runs it?
Can you grace us with the details of your magic?
Doesn't SCCM have all of this functionality built in (including provisioning/PXE)? We use Altiris at the moment, but I think the Windows group is migrating from Altiris to SCCM/SCSM.
Josh
Is this roughly accurate?
You use Formeman to start the provisioning, it boots a Windows image, the Windows boot image connects to SCCM for OS; etc, the OS boots retrieves a script from Foreman and runs it?
Can you grace us with the details of your magic?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Telmo X telmox@gmail.com wrote:
The way we manage it is to pxe boot the windows box and provide a
windows boot image that hands over the full provisioning to SCCM we
then have some magic that calls foreman to let it done the build
finishedLight travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speakOn Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:24 AM, stefano ciavarella > stefano.ciavarella@gmail.com wrote:
After some studies i’ve found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linuxthere are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
Il giorno mercoledì 23 gennaio 2013 16:36:53 UTC+1, stefano
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I have one question :"How to provision ms windows server with Foreman ? "…that’s all
thanks in advance for suggestions
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Ryan, thanks for your post!
By the way, We've been working hard on windows integration:
Check out deep dive with Daniel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R8-0KAkoPc
It doesn't require MDT set up and it works directly with TDTP, foreman
media concepts
There are slides of a talk that I was giving:
My core idea is that foreman can be a complete lifecycle manager for
windows and *nix systems.
Please check it out
I was able to configure Foreman and MDT to work together relatively easily
using MDT’s web service functionality. With this method all you need is
another windows server with MDT and WDS installed (if you need PXE). SCCM
is nice however it is not free, and SCCM is a relative beast to configure
and maintain (former SCCM admin). It’s quite a complex system to have
working alongside Foreman. MDT on the other hand is free and readily
available, and supported my Microsoft. You also do not have to
pre-provision the computer in MDT (once configured, you don’t touch it
unless you get new hardware or new operating system images).If anyone needs any more details let me know! I have Foreman/MDT working
well imaging Cisco UCS Blades.More reading on web services can be found here:
Use Web Services in MDT 2013 | Microsoft Learnbasic gist is:
MDT can pull XML data from foreman’s provisioning page. Simply create
an XML form with all the variables you want (hostname, IP, domain, OU).
Anything you can configure in Foreman can most certainly be configured in
MDT as a variable. For people unfamiliar with foreman (like me) you can
have these provisioning templates be dynamic and unique for each computer
automatically through macros. If anyone needs examples i can post my
provisioning template. It’s nothing fancy at all.Once the templates are created with all the variables, configure the
MDT customsettings.ini to pull from
http://foremanserver.com/unattended/provision using GET (important,
default is POST which will fail). You want to be cautious since it’s HTTP,
don’t send sensitive information like domain join credentials. If you want
to make the deployment fully automatic within WinPE, dont forget to
customize all of the required variables needed to skip the LiteTouch
wizard.You can do a lot with the built in logic of MDT (single image,
baseboard based driver injection).On Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 4:24:13 AM UTC-8, stefano ciavarella > wrote:
After some studies i’ve found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linuxthere are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
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Yes if your goal is just to lay down a Windows OS there are lots of
easier ways to do it. We want to use Foreman so that their is one
interface to the user and for all of the other management features
Foreman provides. I.e. Puppet integration, CMDB, etc.
I will put a doc together, the basic of our setup is to have the WIM image
server by the smart-proxy, this WIM image has ruby installed (1.9.2 we had
issues with 1.9.3 in windows) and basically gets its info from foreman, our
foreman hostgroups define the computer resource in SCCM the SCCM server
they should be using and all necessary info. We have a ruby script that
runs from the WIM gets all this info and then talks to the appropriate SCCM
server (we have multiple due to complex networks/firewalls). SCCM takes
over build the system and in the task sequence we have a call to foreman to
let it done the build was done so it can remove the pxe entry.
As you may be aware a computer must be in SCCM before it can be build, we
worked around this issue by creating a Rack APP that act as a
bridge between the build team and foreman/sccm. Our HostGroups show as "OS
Sequences" that the build team can select from a pulldown menu, when a
Windows OS Sequence is selected there is a REST call to Foreman to register
the host and another call to SCCM to also register the host via the SCCM
API.
Sorry for the rumbling, rough night, I will make it all clearer in the
document.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak
Yes if your goal is just to lay down a Windows OS there are lots of
easier ways to do it. We want to use Foreman so that their is one
interface to the user and for all of the other management features
Foreman provides. I.e. Puppet integration, CMDB, etc.On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Baird, Josh jbaird@follett.com wrote:
Doesn’t SCCM have all of this functionality built in (including
provisioning/PXE)? We use Altiris at the moment, but I think the Windows
group is migrating from Altiris to SCCM/SCSM.Josh
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Subject: Re: [foreman-users] Re: MS Windows ProvisioningIs this roughly accurate?
You use Formeman to start the provisioning, it boots a Windows image,
the Windows boot image connects to SCCM for OS; etc, the OS boots retrieves
a script from Foreman and runs it?Can you grace us with the details of your magic?
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Telmo X telmox@gmail.com wrote:
The way we manage it is to pxe boot the windows box and provide a
windows boot image that hands over the full provisioning to SCCM we
then have some magic that calls foreman to let it done the build
finishedLight travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speakOn Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:24 AM, stefano ciavarella > >> stefano.ciavarella@gmail.com wrote:
After some studies i’ve found some solutions :
RIS
RIS for Linuxthere are other ways or i must setup a ris server??
Il giorno mercoledì 23 gennaio 2013 16:36:53 UTC+1, stefano
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I have one question :"How to provision ms windows server with Foreman
? "…that’s all
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This would be excellent. I'd love to see how you got this working. I've
been thinking about how we can get windows integrated into our
puppet/foreman workflow.
Thanks
Sorry for the rumbling, rough night, I will make it all clearer in the
document.
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Romeo
I am very interested in this. Did you ever get a document together
explaining how your system works?
If so, could you point me to it?
Thanks much!
Me too, looking forward to your doc.
Hi Ryan!
I would like to have your Foreman XML template and CustomSettings.ini.
Do you know how to read multiple values at the same time using Web Service?
Thanks,
Ignacio
Hello,
I am from Linux background and i extensively use satellite for Linux provisioning, Do you have any blog, document how i can make this work with windows ?
i do have MDT setup so i would like to understand the integration.
Thanks,
DJ
Looking for document please…!!
Thanks,
DJ
Not sure you stopped using foreman ? i was eagerly waiting for documents from you.
I’ve actually have this setup with MDT as well. It’s fantastic and fast!
I’m somewhat stuck on the xml for pulling more than a single string over to MDT with User_Data.
would you be willing to post an example for multi var/param use for UserData and the MDT side to match?
That would make my day!