Re: help with system pre trigger getting mach address

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Hi I've been playing with cobbler triggers in an effort to tie cobbler into my distributed environment. My cobbler sits on my RHN Satellite...however I use Infoblox for dhcp & dns. My initial attempt was the use of a bash script: /var/lib/cobbler/triggers/add/system/pre/create_dhcp_dns.sh However I soon discovered that cobbler will ONLY pass $1 to the script, and does not pass on the MAC address ...which I obviously need to update the dhcp (Infoblox). This is my cobbler add system command: cobbler system add --name=sparta --profile=uk-mserv-61-puppet:1:MarkitGroup --mac=00:50:56:92:1b:61 --hostname=sparta.mserv.local I'm guessing a need to change my trigger to a python script, call the cobbler_api and then parse out the arguments...something like: /var/lib/cobbler/triggers/add/system/pre/create_dhcp_dns.py create_dhcp_dns.py would parse the above cobbler command arguments, extract the mac address and hostname, obtain a new IP from Infoblox, update the dhcp and then continue the cobbler command...but now with the additional argument "--ip" I have working perl scripts to obtain an IP from Infoblox and update the dhcp etc.....but I'm struggling to build them into my cobbler trigger. I could probably get away with a wrapper script that calls cobbler....but I would prefer to use cobbler directly and use triggers to do the back end work. Is it possible....any examples? Thanks Bruce _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler