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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Setting up a new school with Debian Edu/Squeeze</div>
  24       <div class="date">25th January 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The next version of <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu
  26 / Skolelinux</a> will include a new tool
  27 <tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp</tt>, which can be used to quickly set up all
  28 the computers in a school without much manual labour.  Here is a short
  29 summary on how to use it to set up a new school.</p>
  30
  31 <p>First, install a combined Main Server and Thin Client Server as the
  32 central server in the network.  Next, PXE boot all the client machines
  33 as thin clients and wait 5 minutes after the last client booted to
  34 allow the clients to report their existence to the central server.  When
  35 this is done, log on to the central server and run
  36 <tt>sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a</tt> in the <tt>konsole</tt> to use the
  37 collected information to generate system objects in LDAP.  The output
  38 will look similar to this:</p>
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  40 <p><blockquote><pre>
  41 % sitesummary2ldapdhcp -a
  42 info: Updating machine tjener.intern [10.0.2.2] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:05.
  43 info: Create GOsa machine for auto-mac-00-01-02-03-04-06 [10.0.16.20] id ether-00:01:02:03:04:06.
  44
  45 Enter password if you want to activate these changes, and ^c to abort.
  46
  47 Connecting to LDAP as cn=admin,ou=ldap-access,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
  48 enter password: *******
  49 %
  50 </pre></blockquote></p>
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  52 <p>After providing the LDAP administrative password (the same as the
  53 root password set during installation), the LDAP database will be
  54 populated with system objects for each PXE booted machine with
  55 automatically generated names.  The final step to set up the school is
  56 then to log into <a href="https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/">GOsa</a>,
  57 the web based user, group and system administration system to change
  58 system names, add systems to the correct host groups and finally
  59 enable DHCP and DNS for the systems.  All clients that should be used
  60 as diskless workstations should be added to the workstation-hosts
  61 group.  After this is done, all computers can be booted again via PXE
  62 and get their assigned names and group based configuration
  63 automatically.</p>
  64
  65 <p>We plan to release beta3 with the updated version of this feature
  66 enabled this weekend.  You might want to give it a try.</p>
  67
  68 <p>Update 2012-01-28: When calling sitesummary2ldapdhcp to add new
  69 hosts, one need to add the option -a.  I forgot to mention this in my
  70 original text, and have added it to the text now.</p>
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