UEC/Eucalyptus installation test: 20090927.1

[Colin Watson]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 02:08:01PM -0700, Daniel Nurmi wrote:
> That being said, I believe the opinion was that the node registration
> process could be kicked off by the admin manually, after the front-end has
> been in installed, whenever new nodes have come up.  Registration of nodes
> is idempotent, so the process could also be put into the CC init script if
> partial automation is desired (CC would register whatever any nodes that are
> running every time it starts).

I felt that it would have some not-obviously-desirable security
properties to non-interactively register any nodes that happen to
advertise themselves on the local network, and so avoided this; I
remember that being the consensus in Dublin as well. If we want to make
the process smoother than a command-line tool, I think it probably needs
to go into the web interface rather than being made wholly
non-interactive.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]