[Testbed-admins] database info reset by nfree command

[Hussamuddin Nasir <nasir@netlab.uky.edu>]

HI guys,
   As you know we had added 24 more machines to our Testbed which had 
no serial lines. SO i was forced to use the pxeboot-vga for them. We had 
55 more machines that use serial lines and pxeboot-serial. To make both 
of them work , i played around with the database tables to make the 
following changes

1. Made pxeboot-serial as the default pxeboot and updated the values for 
all the machine that do not have serial ports in the database with 
pxeboot_path=/tftpboot/pxeboot-vga ; then ran makedhcpd_conf to update 
my dhcp server config.
2. Also built separate Frisbee and FREEBSD MFS  images with support for 
only vga console for the  new machines and the updated the database 
tables likewise

This made every thing work as i wanted them , but as soon as i try to 
free a node using the nfree command, it resets the pxeboot path value in 
the database  for that node to NULL which ultimately hangs the node on 
pxeboot

Any solutions for this situation ??

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cheers,

Hussam
(Hussamuddin Nasir)

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