To add new server click “Add server” button on main page in pxetool main page.
Host configuration need at least following options:
Hostname and MAC address. Other options comes from profiles and they are optional.
Option Description Hostname Hostname of server or VM MAC address MAC address of server Group Logical grouping of servers
To enable remote reboot option you need to specify: - in case of using HW node with IPMI - IPMI credentials - in case of using VMs - Libvirt URI (qemu+ssh://localhost/system, or qemu:///system if pxetool installed on host running VMs).
More configuration options come from profiles.
PXETool can automatically reboot hosts and start installation. For this functionality credentials or ssh authorized_keys should be setup properly.
Options for virsh connection:
Option Description Conn string Use qemu+ssh://root@server.name/system for remote connection. For localhost use qemu:///system.
Note: SSH key of pxetool which is located in HOME/.ssh/id_rsa.pub (default: /var/lib/pxetool/.ssh/id_rsa.pub should be placed to the authorized_keys on remote host.
Option Description Ipmi hostname IPMI hostname or IP address Ipmi username Username to access to IPMI Ipmi password Password to access to IPMI