[Beowulf] Re: recommendation on crash cart for a cluster room:fullcluster KVM is not an option I suppose?

[Rahul Nabar]

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Buccaneer for Hire.
<buccaneer at rocketmail.com> wrote:
> We have also never had an issue with a vendor getting this information to us.  They have to capture it anyway. In fact, we send then a spreadsheet with hostname and they fill in the rest of the information. We get the spreadsheet, I run a script for the that vendor and the DB is populated-a second.  After that, as the nodes are placed in the rack and connected, when power is applied it starts to install!!!  On paper. :)
>

That's a simple but efficient idea! Why did I not think of sending my
vendor a spreadsheet before! :)

Maybe I ought to automate service-tag collection as well!

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Rahul