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Maintainer	TrevorB
Url	https://wiki.koozali.org
Category	Administration
Tags	network, pxe boot, tftp, thinclient

Maintainer

User:TrevorB

Version

Contrib 10:

0.1-4

smeserver-pxe

The latest version of smeserver-pxe is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Description

Global settings for dhcp to allow clients to network boot. Assumes sme server is acting as dhcp server.

Installation

For SME 10

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-pxe

Configuration

you can list the available configuration with the following command :

config show pxe

Some of the properties are not shown, but are defaulted in a template or a script. Here a more comprehensive list with default and expected values :

property	default	values
status	enabled	enabled, disabled
default	pxelinux.0	any name of executable
00:06	bootia32.EFI	pxe boot executable for this boot architecture (32 bit EFI)
00:07	bootx64.EFI	pxe boot executable for this boot architecture (64 bit EFI)
dir	<directory>	subdirectory of /tftpboot in which to find executable e.g. EFI	optional
nextserver	<IP address>	IP address of tftp server in your network	optional
<arch>	<boot executable>	boot architecture and associated boot executable e.g. 00:09 syslinux.EFI	optional

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-pxe

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla

and select the smeserver-pxe component or use this link

Below is an overview of the current issues for this contrib:

No open bugs found.

Changelog

Only released version in smecontrib are listed here.

smeserver-pxe Changelog: SME 10 (smecontribs)

2022/07/02 Trevor Batley 0.1-4.sme
- add event smeserver-pxe-update to trigger dhcpd restart via creatlinks [12087]

2022/05/28 Trevor Batley 0.1-3.sme
- Remove incorrect = sign from nextserver parameter and enclsing "'s

2022/05/09 Trevor Batley 0.1-2.sme
- Set default architecture executables to Centos 7 defaults [SME 11969]

2022/04/28 Trevor Batley 0.1-1.sme
- Initial release [SME 10821]
- Split of PXE Global parameters out of smeserver-thinclient

- Allow for different architectures (including UEFI booting)