This tutorial illustrates how to provision (remotely install) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, KVM and Fedora using Cisco Server Provisioner.

 

Coming soon: LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning 7.0. With enhanced security, faster 64-bit imaging, user extensibility and many other enhancements, LBMP 7.0 ("Buddy Holly" release) will also do bare metal provisioning of these new additional distros and platforms: RHEL/CentOS 7.x, ESXi 6.x, Debian 8.x, Ubuntu 14.xx/15.xx/16.xx, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x, Fedora 2x and more.

 

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Video Tutorial: Cisco Server Provisioner: Provision Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux & CentOS) (2:47)

 

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Fedora share a common architecture and installation mechanism:

•The "kickstart" installation file (kickstart.cfg)

•The "anaconda" installer

 

This tutorial describes the steps needed to remotely install the operating system (and applications) on client systems:

 

1)Prepare the ISO media from the command line, using scripts

2)Prepare Provisioning Roles using the browser-based Graphical User Interface

3)Power up the Client System to be provisioned

 

Please refer to the Application Programming Interface (API) to integrate Cisco Server Provisioner's functions into your application.