Ah ha. So for the time being I have to create a separate management class object for every unique declaration of a parameterized class.

At a certain point, doesn't it just make sense to say "Cobbler supports puppet 100% and support for other tools vary" instead of "Cobbler supports configuration management 100%"? How many people use Cobbler with a config tool that is not Puppet?

I only say this because I fear we're going in a direction with config management that is no longer intuitive. How can I help?

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:50 PM, James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net> wrote:

The parameters go in the variables section of the mgmt class, not in ksmeta (I will do variable substitutions from ksmeta in the future, but for now it doesn't).

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Greg Chavez <greg.chavez@gmail.com> wrote:

I suspect I am being obtuse here. I'm trying to use the arusso/vnc module from puppet forge which is declared like this:

class { 'vnc':
refresh => true,
servers => [ 'user' => 'pete',
'args' => '-geometry 1920x1200 -depth 16' ],
service_ensure => true,
xstartup_template => 'myclass/xstartup.erb',
}

Via the Web console, I did the following:

--------------------

(1) Created management class "vnc":
**** name: vnc

**** class name: vnc
**** parameters/variables: service_ensure xstartup_template refresh servers

(2) In system object:
**** selected class "vnc"
**** Added yaml to management parameters which was converted to:

{ service_ensure: True, xstartup_template: vnc/xstartup.erb, refresh: True, servers: [{'user': 'pete'}, {'args': '-geometry 1920x1200 -depth 16'}] }

--------------------

However, this is what cobbler-ext-node returns for the system:

~> cobbler-ext-nodes pete.local
classes:
site: {}
vnc:
refresh: '~'

servers: '~'
service_ensure: '~'
xstartup_template: '~'
environment: production
parameters:
from_cobbler: 1
refresh: true

servers:
- user: pete
- args: -geometry 1920x1200 -depth 16
service_ensure: true
tree: http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/centos-6.4-x86_64
xstartup_template: vnc/xstartup.erb

I didn't think that this would work the way I did it, but I was hoping the resultant breakage would give me a clue as to how to fix. No such luck. I am stumped.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Mahalo in advance.

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