Automated removal of DHCP netinstall directives when client install completes

[stephen mulcahy]

Hi,

Is there a standard approach people are using to have the config on 
their DHCP server updated to remove the filename and next-server lines 
for a particular client after that client is installed?

This strikes me as an important part of a complete automation solution 
but I haven't found anything definitive on the web. What are other 
people using?

I hacked together a quick python script which does the following,
1. Runs on the same server as the dhcp server and listens on a specified 
port.
2. When a client is finished installing, there is an entry in the 
post-install script which sends a message to the listener in 1 notifying 
installation finished.
3. The listener updates the DHCP record for that host to ensure that on 
reboot, the client won't start another installation (it also restarts 
the DHCP server to pick up this change).

I'm happy to share this script if anyone wants it but a) its the first 
thing I've ever written in python so surely contains bugs and b) it 
doesn't fully work as a standalone daemon yet (doesn't detach from ttys 
and fork and so on).

Thanks,

-stephen

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