[cobbler] Problems with writing systems through the XMLRPC API using perl XML::RPC or XMLRPC::Lite

Jason Barlow jbarlow at central1.com
Fri Nov 9 00:10:32 UTC 2012


I'm trying to create a new system profile using perl through the XMLRPC API.

Things work great using python, but when I try to use either of the above perl interfaces, I'm not able to actually write any of the new objects I've created:

Reading items works a charm, and it looks like the calls themselves are succeeding, but the host never shows up in a:
#[root at spacewalk cobbler]# cobbler system list | grep test
#

I'm wondering what's going wrong here; am I not authenticating properly?

I've tried using both XML::RPC and XMLRPC::Lite, and get similar results, where reads work fine, but nothing actually 'sticks'

Here's the script that I'm using for XMLRPC::Lite

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use XMLRPC::Lite;
use Data::Dumper;

my $username = 'api-user';
my $password = 'sapi-user';
my $proto = 'http://';
my $servername = 'spacewak';
my $api = '/cobbler_api';
my $url = $proto . $servername . $api;
my $name = 'vacsld01test';


my $conn = XMLRPC::Lite->proxy('https://vacslp01spacewalk.cucbc.com/cobbler_api');
my $token = $conn->login($username, $password)->result();
my $object = $conn->new_system($token)->result();

$conn->modify_system($object, 'name', $name, $token)->result();
$conn->modify_system($object, 'hostname', $name, $token)->result();
$conn->save_system($object, $token)->result();
$conn->sync($token)->result();


/var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log has:

Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | authenticate; ['api-user', True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | REMOTE new_item(system); user(api-user)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | authorize; ['api-user', 'new_system', None, None, True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE api-user authorization result: True; user(?)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | REMOTE modify_item(system); user(api-user); object_id(___NEW___system::o0X5NLQrLsh9rXGhtvbuts56aTY6zb4JfQ==); attribute(name)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | authorize; ['api-user', 'modify_system', <cobbler.item_system.System instance at 0x14350560>, 'name', True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE api-user authorization result: True; user(?)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | REMOTE modify_item(system); user(api-user); object_id(___NEW___system::o0X5NLQrLsh9rXGhtvbuts56aTY6zb4JfQ==); attribute(hostname)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | authorize; ['api-user', 'modify_system', <cobbler.item_system.System instance at 0x14350560>, 'hostname', True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE api-user authorization result: True; user(?)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | REMOTE save_item(system); user(api-user); object_id(___NEW___system::o0X5NLQrLsh9rXGhtvbuts56aTY6zb4JfQ==)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | authorize; ['api-user', 'save_system', <cobbler.item_system.System instance at 0x14350560>, None, True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE api-user authorization result: True; user(?)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | add_item(system); ['vacsld01test']
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | get_items; ['system']
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | REMOTE sync; user(api-user)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | authorize; ['api-user', 'sync', None, None, True]
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - DEBUG | REMOTE api-user authorization result: True; user(?)
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | sync
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | running pre-sync triggers
Thu Nov  8 16:03:46 2012 - INFO | cleaning trees

I'm using:

cobbler2-2.0.11-4.el5 ( CentOS 5.8)
perl v5.10.1
XMLRPC::Lite 0.715
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