• CSI Documentation
• Working with CSI
  • Support Practices
  • Supported Operating Systems
• Linux Build Services
  • Overview of Linux Environment
  • Getting Started
    • Prerequisites
    • Firewall Setup
    • Get a Foreman Org
    • Setup Wolftech OU (optional)
    • Configure Org Defaults
    • Add Users to Your Org
  • Building Hosts
    • Overview
    • Hardware
    • New host creation
    • Network Interfaces
    • Node Classification
    • Other goodies
  • Using Puppet
    • Overview
    • Environments
    • Branches and Updates
    • Workstation Setup
    • Encrypted Hiera
    • Puppet Module References
• Software Repositories
  • Overview
  • Public Mirrors
  • Private Mirrors
  • Hosted Mirror Services
  • Red Hat Install Media
• Satellite deployment
  • Overview
  • Satellite Hosts
  • Registration Guide
  • Satellite Interface
  • Troubleshooting RHEL 6
  • Troubleshooting RHEL 7
• NTP time
  • Overview
• SFTP/SCP
  • SFTP/SCP Service
  • SFTP/SCP On Call Support
• Monitoring
  • Overview (SysNews/Nagios/Pager)
  • Problems (SysNews/Nagios)
  • Zabbix Information (Zabbix/OnCall/Iris)
  • Zabbix Monitoring FAQ (Zabbix/OnCall/Iris)
• AFS/Auristor Filestore
  • Overview
• MySQL / MariaDB
  • Overview
• Proxy
  • Overview
  • Datacenter proxies
  • PCI-DSS proxies
  • Proxy service calls
• Load Balancing
  • Overview
• ERP
  • Overview
  • IPA Auth
  • MTA Mail Relays
  • Secure File Transfer
  • End-of-Support Systems
• PCI
  • Overview
  • Web Proxy
  • PCI Linux Builds
    • Migration from PE
    • Move a host from PE
    • New PCI hosts
    • Puppet Module for PCI
• CSI Internal docs
  • Operational docs
  • Updating Documentation
  • Auditing
  • Tag summaries for CSI docs
  • Pager Admin Commands
  • Nagios Config for Windows
  • SSL Certificate Management
  • Build Environment
    • CSI - Make an org
    • CSI - Make a dev environment
    • Foreman templates
    • Code Flow
    • LDAP recipes for AD
  • Firewall Information
    • Avamar
    • Satellite
    • Foreman + Puppet
  • On-Call Playbook
    • General OS checks
    • role::oit_linux::foreman
    • role::oit_linux::puppet_ca
    • role::oit_linux::puppet_master
    • role::oit_linux::tftpserver
    • Sysnews monitoring servers
    • Legacy Proxy Servers
    • PCI timeserver
    • Satellite servers

PXE or image deployment?

Foreman supports installation from PXE or from images. CSI is currently focused on PXE deployments, since this is what the campus has historically used, but will develop support for image based deployment on the road to provisioning hosts in the various cloud platforms.

To install a linux host

• Gather your computers
• Enter basic information into foreman
• Identify the network address for PXE
• Add some additional info
• PXE boot the node