Wishlist: make autogen node names more informative
Bug #1829519 reported by
Peter Sabaini
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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MAAS |
Invalid
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When MAAS enlists nodes it generates names for newly found nodes. Typically an operator would later rename hosts according to the organizations standards.
However for first setup of nodes it would be convenient if the generated names would give a hint for easier identification of nodes.
That hint could be embedding vendor and/or serial into the generated nodename. E.g. have "funny-
Changed in maas: | |
milestone: | next → none |
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A global setting for hostname generating using templates would work well for this. We would keep the default naming scheme but allow users to do things like
maas-host-{ID} NAME}-{ VENDOR} -{SERIAL} NAME}-{ PXE_MAC}
{RANDOM_
{RANDOM_
etc