Closed cpressland closed 8 years ago
Could you elaborate?
As of right now, the cookbook only renames the VM in active directory if you bootstrap with the -N
option.
If you don't pass in a new name, then it joins the domain with whatever the current hostname is.
Sure, sorry I wasn't clear enough.
In a nut shell when we provision a VM we specify the hostname as part of it's creation, VMWare itself then syspreps the instance with the requested name. Example syntax would be like this:
knife vsphere vm clone STAGADJOIN01 --chostname STAGADJOIN01 --template Win2012R2_Template_V3 --cips 192.168.153.220/24 --ccpu 4 --cram 4 --datastore Datastore04 --cvlan hotels4u_dev --folder crm_folder/Templates --dest-folder crm_folder/'Staging Environment' --resource-pool Example/Example --cdnsips 192.168.157.10,192.168.157.11 --cdnssuffix grouplongtail.local --cspec WinCust_v3 --start true -VV
Within a few minutes the VM is provisioned and good to go with the hostname STAGADJOIN01. Once the process is finished, I bootstrap it:
knife bootstrap windows winrm 192.168.153.220 --winrm-user binduser -N glp-stagadjoin01 -E staging -VV
So as you can see, the VM's Hostname is STAGADJOIN01 and it's nodename is glp-stagadjoin01. When I run the cookbook it automatically tries to update the machines hostname to glp-stagadjoin01 when we'd like to keep it as STAGADJOIN01. So what I'm looking for is some kind of attribute or other config I can set which will prevent the name from updating regardless of config and only handle the binding to the domain.
Hope this helps, thanks for everything so far.
Could you try this branch and see if it does what you are looking for? Point your berksfile to the following branch / git ref.
https://github.com/NetDocuments/ad-join-cookbook/tree/feature/rename
https://github.com/NetDocuments/ad-join-cookbook/commit/8d39e9a1cc8d674556bfa7e86873dc12e705e25c
It has a new attribute that I believe will do what you are looking for. If the value is false, then the domain name will always be the same as the hostname (never the chef name).
node['ad-join']['rename_server'] = false
Just finished testing this and it works exactly as expected. Thanks!
I've changed the attribute to the name you originally suggested.
node['ad-join']['windows']['update_hostname']
I've merged this to master and pushed version 4.4.0 to the supermarket.
I deleted the other branch so you will likely get errors until you switch your berks file back to point to the supermarket / master branch.
Hi,
It'd be nice to be able to set a value/attribute to define if the Computer Name update part of the Cookbook runs.
Maybe have an Attribute like:
I'm working in an environment where the production node name has a few extra characters than the actual hostname. Example, nodename = orgname-example while hostname = example
As the hostnames are previously set by knife-vsphere there is no need to update the hostname.
Thanks!