Need help ... Urgently ...
by Yogesh Mulay
I have the Cobbler setup ready & esxi5 installed. Is there a way to parse
esxi commands in the host. Like enabling ssh running esxcli. Adding VMKs.
Changing the managament IP address & its Vlan
I need some tips regarding pre & post installation basically
Any help would be highly appreciated. ...
Regards
10 years
Cobbler and Windows
by Jeremy Jones
Hi,
I’ve been working on a tutorial for provisioning Windows using Cobbler (without using MS deployment tools such as SCCM). I thought I’d shoot it out here to the list for comment and review. It can be found here:
http://www.letifer.org/2014/03/26/cobbler-and-windows/
The tutorial is slightly different that out actual environment; an attempt to simplify things a little (our testbed is crazy complicated), but it should work for most cases.
I’d love to hear any comments or suggestions anyone may have. Thanks
Jeremy
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10 years
Using Cobbler to mirror Ubuntu repos
by Larry J Prikockis
Hi! We are a mixed Ubuntu/Redhat (or Centos) shop and recently I've
been toying around with Cobbler to hopefully simplify workstation and
server builds. I realize Cobbler was initially geared primarily
towards yum/rpm-based distros and was happy to find a few articles such
as:
http://michaeldehaan.net/post/39496835943/experiences-with-cobbler-deploy...
that provided a little more detail than the Cobbler docs on getting
things working with Ubuntu.
I'm a little confused though about the "proper" way to set up repo
mirroring for various Ubuntu distributions.
For instance, if I set up a repo called ubuntu12.04LTS-x86_64 using
Arch=x86_64, Breed=apt, Apt Components=main restricted universe
multiverse and Apt Dist Names=precise precise-updates precise-security
how should I be configuring my sources.list file in order to get all its
updates from this mirror?
Are there any docs or examples that go into a little more detail of
using Cobbler to manage a local mirror for Ubuntu?
thanks!
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10 years
cobbler/koan and possibly puppet
by Chris Johnson
Hi.
Has anyone tried (or succeeded) to put cobbler and koan up on OS X at
all? It has Python. Reasons are mixed but I'd like to use it to
provision a number of CentOS boxes. Puppet to if it's been done.
Chris J.
10 years
WARNING when deleting directories in /var/www/cobbler ???
by Robert Jacobson
Someone at my org was experimenting with repositories and links on the
cobbler server, like:
# ls -ld /var/www/cobbler/repo*
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 34 Mar 19 11:26 repo_mirror ->
/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_build/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root apache 4096 Mar 19 20:07 repo_mirror_build/
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root apache 4096 Mar 19 20:08 repo_mirror_patch/
Unfortunately when I ran a "cobbler sync" it deleted both "real"
directories:
# cobbler sync
task started: 2014-03-19_200751_sync
task started (id=Sync, time=Wed Mar 19 20:07:51 2014)
running pre-sync triggers
cleaning trees
*removing: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_build*
*removing: /var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror_patch*
So of course I'm restoring things -- but in the future, could there
perhaps be a setting that prevents disastrous removal of entire
repositories? Or at the very least, a "README" or something in the
directory that says "DON'T PUT USER DIRECTORIES HERE" or something?
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10 years, 1 month
v 2.40 on centos 6.4
by John Doyle
Greetings,
running Centos6 and installed cobbler and cobbler-web with yum. selinux is
disabled and cobbler check spits out:
httpd does not appear to be running and proxying cobbler, or SELinux is in
the way. Original traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-
packages/cobbler/cli.py", line 252, in check_setup
s.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 10.20.5.1:80/cobbler_api: 302 Found>
10 years, 1 month
Importing Debian Wheezy Distro: "No signature matched..."
by Traiano Welcome
Hi List
I’m trying to import debian wheezy 7.1 using "cobbler import …” but the task keeps failing with "No signature matched in /srv/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy”:
---
root@hitokiri:/etc/cobbler# cobbler import --name=wheezy --path="rsync://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/curren..."
task started: 2014-03-08_213004_import
task started (id=Media import, time=Sat Mar 8 21:30:04 2014)
No signature matched in /srv/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/wheezy
!!! TASK FAILED !!!
—
“cobbler signature report” lists wheez as a known OS:
---
Currently loaded signatures:
debian:
squeeze
wheezy
—
The relevant segment from the cobbler signature file says:
—
"wheezy": {
"signatures":["dists"],
"version_file":"Release",
"version_file_regex":"Codename: wheezy",
"kernel_arch":"linux-headers-(.*)\\.deb",
"kernel_arch_regex":null,
"supported_arches":["i386","amd64"],
"supported_repo_breeds":["apt"],
"kernel_file":"vmlinuz(.*)",
"initrd_file":"initrd(.*)\\.gz",
"isolinux_ok":false,
"default_kickstart":"/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample.seed",
"kernel_options":"",
"kernel_options_post":"",
"boot_files":[]
}
},
—
And, I’m using a source-installed version of cobbler:
---
root@hitokiri:/opt/cobbler# cobbler --version
Cobbler 2.5.0
source: f457cf0, Wed Mar 5 18:22:24 2014 +0100
build time: Fri Mar 7 18:49:02 2014
---
Is it possible to update the signatures for debian wheezy, in order to get a successful import ?
Thanks in Advance!
Traiano
10 years, 1 month