[AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations

[Karl Hardisty]

A reasonable litmus test could be whether it’s an aspect of the job an average network engineer would reasonably expect to deal with, rather than being strictly ‘network’. If it’s something a reasonable number of list members would expect to see and have to deal with then that would make it acceptable?

k.

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On 9/02/2014, at 6:07 pm, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:

> It’s a pretty broad brush you stroke Sir but I agree with you, SDN related to Sys Admin could be a little touch and go but really every single one of us knows when we post somewhere what is network related and what isn’t.
>  
> From: Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com] 
> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 4:05 PM
> To: Nathan Brookfield
> Cc: Matthew Byrne; Daniel Watson; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations
>  
> Nathan,
>  
> The only thing I would really like to clarify is that Sysadmin stuff related to network infrastructure - should be acceptable for discussion.
>  
> From open source routers, to servers which relate to monitoring of networks, out-of-band management of infrastructure, SDN, server infrastructure networking, etc etc... should be ok.
> 
> 
> ...Skeeve
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> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
> I hate to sound like a broken record but I second this.  Why am I being spammed with Sys Admin crap! How many times do we have to go over this . . .
>  
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Byrne
> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 1:37 PM
> To: Daniel Watson; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations
>  
> Not sure how many times you need to be reminded that this is a Network Operators Group?
>  
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Daniel Watson
> Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2014 9:40 AM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: [AusNOG] PXE Boot Installations
>  
> Gday Noggers,
>  
> We are now using PXE Boot installations to install all our servers from dedicated servers, to virtual servers and all servers in between
>  
> As part of the installation process with Windows 2008 R2 installations, it allows to setup additional services / features during the installation's post install,
>  
> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install Web-Server -allSubFeatures -restart
> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install SMTP-Server -allSubFeatures -restart
> ServerManagerCmd.exe -install telnet-client -allSubFeatures -restart
> # 3 = automatically download but do not install updates, change to 4 for fully automatic
> reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" /v AUOptions /t REG_DWORD /d 3 /f
> # We do always want to automatically install the critical RDP bugfix
> net stop TermService /y
> netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Desktop" new enable=yes
> wuinstall.exe /install /match KB2621440
>  
> I was wondering if anybody on or off list might be able to provide some instructions on how to add to the script to set our WSUS and timeserver before it updates windows
>  
> If anybody can provide assistance I would be highly appreciative.
>  
> TIA
>  
> D.
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