I did something sort of similar with Live CD images for booting hardware not on a PXE network in Cobbler.  It could also register machines seen then first time by making system records for them.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cobbler&#x2F;cobbler" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cobbler&#x2F;cobbler</a><p>What is interesting in this article in particular are the auto-firmware upgrade state transitions, which seem pretty neat.<p>The chat bot is I guess neat, but if a lot of people are using the cloud that could be a hard way to get status.