Servers

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.

Power Control

PXETool can automatically reboot hosts and start installation. For this functionality credentials or ssh authorized_keys should be setup properly.

Virsh

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.

IPMI

Option Description
Ipmi hostname IPMI hostname or IP address
Ipmi username Username to access to IPMI
Ipmi password Password to access to IPMI

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