July 2012 - cobbler - Fedora Mailing-Lists

by John Paget Bourke

Hi, When I run koan --list=profiles -s localhost I get the following error root@Config cobbler]# koan --list=profiles -s localhost - looking for Cobbler at http://localhost:25151/cobbler_api Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/koan/utils.py", line 542, in __try_connect xmlrpc_server.ping() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1199, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1489, in __request verbose=self.__verbose File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/xmlrpclib.py", line 1243, in request headers ProtocolError: <ProtocolError for localhost:25151/cobbler_api: 404 Not Found> If I try to see if the server is running and listening, the server is ok [root@Config cobbler]# netstat -an | grep 25151 tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25151 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25151 127.0.0.1:57483 TIME_WAIT But returns nothing . [root@Config cobbler]# curl http://localhost:25151/cobbler_api curl: (52) Empty reply from server I am using the web GUI and it works ok, no problems. When I try to use koan or curl and check the logs [root@Config cobbler]# curl http://localhost:25151/cobbler_api curl: (52) Empty reply from server [root@Config cobbler]# date Sun Oct 30 05:30:55 UTC 2011 [root@Config cobbler]# ls -l total 1792 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 6 02:24 anamon -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1806499 Oct 30 04:50 cobbler.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 73 Oct 29 00:24 install.log drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 6 02:24 kicklog drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 6 02:24 syslog drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 04:40 tasks [root@Config cobbler]# cd /etc/httpd/logs/ [root@Config logs]# ls -l total 3172 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10904 Oct 30 04:45 access_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 789779 Oct 30 02:43 access_log-20111030 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32638 Oct 30 05:20 error_log -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 2403267 Oct 30 03:06 error_log-20111030 The logs do not seem to be affected. The versions I am running are [root@Config cobbler]# rpm -qa | grep cobbler cobbler-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch cobbler-web-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch [root@Config cobbler]# rpm -qa | grep koan koan-2.2.1-1.el6.noarch In the modules.conf I have [authentication] #module = authn_denyall module = authn_configfile [authorization] module = authz_allowall So I am a bit lost. Any thoughts ? Thanks John

10 years, 2 months

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Windows install with Cobbler

by Janet.Conkle＠afscn.com

Has anyone been successful in installing windows using cobbler? I've found a few things on the net but nothing definitive. I need a tool that will install baseline images on lab boxes of both the linux and Windows flavors. Janet Conkle ETG x5343

11 years, 5 months

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ESXi5 system builds via cobbler

by Eddie Velez

I am working with our development lab to install ESXi5 on system via cobbler. ESXi4 and ESXi5 are different in the they boot I have modified /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/cobbler/pxegen.py to handle this and created templates to make sure correct boot options are inserted to tftp boot file. The problem I am facing is coping all necessary files into /tftpboot/images directory and make sure they don't get deleted next time I do a cobbler sync. Can some please point me to which file I have to modify to copy data to directory. ________________________________ Eddie Velez Sr. UNIX System Administrator 2650 N 1st Suit 300 San Jose, CA, 95135 408.904.4136 Office 408.307.1632 Mobile http://www.emulex.com<http://www.emulex.com/> [Description: Emulex]<http://www.emulex.com/emulex-connects/> This message contains Emulex confidential information intended only for specific recipients and is not to be forwarded to anyone else. If you have received this message in error, please delete it immediately. Thank you.

11 years, 6 months

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Systems don't inherit profile's kickstart metadata?

by Joshua J. Kugler

So, this problem: Doing koan installs and allowing auto-register gives me a system with "localhost" as the host name and a weird floating point number as the system name in Cobbler, instead of what I expected, which was the value I provided to koan as --virt-name. lead to this attempted solution: I defined a system using the profile I wanted, and then try to run koan with --system=SYSTEM_NAME. which lead to this problem: System installs fine, but the kickstart meta data does not take affect; in this case, the chef job that was run when I installed via --profile was not run when I installed via a --system= that used the same previously mentioned profile. which lead to this attempt: koan --virt --profile=builder-el6-x86_64 --system=builder-el6-64-01\ --server=cobbler.example.com --virt-path=vg_group which lead to this interesting bug: - looking for Cobbler at http://cobbler.example.com:80/cobbler_api - reading URL: http://172.29.1.101/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/builder-el6- x86_64 Traceback (most recent call last): <snip> raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp) HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: NOT FOUND Why was it trying to pull the profile from the system section of the API? Can't you "override" the profile when you specify a system? This is Cobbler/Koan 2.2.2 by the way. Thanks for any help you can render! j -- Joshua J. Kugler - Fairbanks, Alaska Azariah Enterprises - Programming and Website Design joshua(a)azariah.com - Jabber: pedahzur(a)gmail.com PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A

11 years, 8 months

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DHCP entries only get generated if netboot_enable = true

by Dan Rao

Hi all, I upgraded my Cobbler install to 2.2.3-1.el6 (from epel-testing) last night. Interestingly, when I run cobbler sync, only machines that have netboot enabled get entries in my dhcpd.conf. The offending line(s) appear to be in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/manage_isc.py - lines 164-165 ---- if not interface["netboot_enabled"]: continue ---- (This is in the section that generates the ISC dhcpd config file). I commented those lines out to get my server back, but I was curious as to why that was there in the first place. Any insight would be appreciated! Best, Dan

11 years, 8 months

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Can't read out variable repos in snippet

by Manuel.Laesser＠swisslife.ch

Hello togehter I would like to read out variable repos (cobbler profile dumpvars --name=rhel5-intranet | grep -w repos) in my snippet create_repos_snippet and download a yum repo file if the string is not empty. [root@cobbler sl]# cobbler profile dumpvars --name=rhel5-intranet | grep -w repos repos : rhel58-x86_64-20120723 <snipp> #if 'rhel58' in $repos #echo $repos wget http://cobbler/pub/files/5_rhel5-updates.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel5-updates.repo #end if </snipp> Unfortunately this doesn't work. I have to specifie the whole name of the repo like <snipp> #if 'rhel58-x86_64-20120723' in $repos #echo $repos wget http://cobbler/pub/files/5_rhel5-updates.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel5-updates.repo #end if </snipp> Has anybody any idea how to test $repos without using the whole name of the repo? I also tried #if $repos != ' ' without any success. Thank you for your help. Manuel

11 years, 8 months

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cobbler & puppet documentation

by Paul Archer

I'm just starting out with cobbler. I'd like to use it with puppet as my CMS, but documentation is scarce. Can anyone tell me if the part of the manual that deals with Cobbler & Puppet (http://cobbler.github.com/manuals/2.2.3/5/3/2_-_Puppet_Integration.html) is blank because the documentation hasn't been written, or just because there's a glitch in the online docs? Thanks, Paul

11 years, 9 months

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#try/#except not working as expected

by Lukas Zuercher

Hi, I wanted to create something like that: #try #include '/stuff/$name' #except do something else #end try safe_templating is set to false. The reason is that I want to try to include a file with some informations and if it does not exist, it should to a default action The rendered ks looks as follows: # Unable to read /tmp/test123 The except part is never reached, even syntactical incorrect cobbler stuff is ignored. Any hints what went wrong?

11 years, 9 months

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Hand creating distro json files

by Parthasarathy, Balaji (BCS, Cupertino, USA)

I'm using RHEL 6.2 + Cobbler 2.2.3. I was wondering if I can had create a distro json file (like the files found under /var/lib/cobbler/config/distros.d) to make cobbler recognize a distro. If that's possible, what are the sequence of steps needed to make that work? Similar question for profile json file. Thanks Balaji

11 years, 9 months

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API: How to check for duplicate IP address

by Lukas Zuercher

Hi here, I would like to check if a particular IP address was already used in cobbler. Something like api.cobbler.find_system(ip="192.168.0.1"). Unfortunately I was not able to figure out how this would work. Thanks for any help, Luke

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