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Cobbler is a network based provisioning tool for Linux systems.

Cobbler is a highly configurable provisioning tool for Linux systems that allows for network based bare-metal installations as well as supporting virtualized guests in Xen, qemu, KVM, and some VMware environments. By making use of python and Cheetah scripting kickstart files can be generated on the fly for either individual, or groups of systems. While aimed primarily at RedHat derivatives (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, etc) some support for Debian systems is also available.

More info at http://cobbler.github.io/

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Puppet vs Chef, pro and contra from users and use cases

I already googled and read the "to-puppet-or-to-chef-that-is-the-question" article. I'm interested in use cases, real world implementations in which people had choosen one or the other on real problems bases. I'm particularly interested in…
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Howto setup Cobbler with PXE if you can't change the dhcp server?

In the past I've setup a PXE server several times by making the normal dhcp server return everything needed for network booting: both the regular ip config AND bootinfo in a single dhcp setup. That way it is easy to do. According to the…
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Kickoff Ansible Playbook after Cobbler install

I am working on implementing Cobbler and Ansible to do our server deploys and am having one final issue. My Ansible playbook works great, my Cobbler install works great, but the issue is in tying them together. I wrote a post-install trigger for…
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How to set up Cobbler with Puppet or Cfengine?

I've heard a lot about using Cobbler together with Puppet/Cfengine for rapid deployment & configuration. Can you point me to some tutorials or share you experience of how you do it? Would also love to hear about any other systems you use for rapid…
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iptables command from RHEL documentation for cobbler, fails in RHEL 7

This seems like a very simple question. But I don't see anything much about it on the web. The command comes from the RHEL documentation itself, so I would expect that it works... and yet it fails. Any insight? Command: /sbin/iptables -A INPUT -m…
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Do you remove unwanted packages (*NIX), or do you disable them?

Im currently building a cobbler and puppet setup. One thing I do is disabling unwanted services with puppet, but then I thought: Should I remove them with cobbler, rather than disabling them after they are intalled? For example, my base class in…
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Is there any strong, well tested and general purpose puppet recipes-base to be used as starting point for customization?

I have configured a working cobbler system that successfully handles my bare metal server deployment and I'm going to start the configuration management issues using puppet (integrating it as much as possible with cobbler of course). As it seems…
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How to deploy same stack+configuration to multiple server?

Currently I have 2 VPSes, setup and configured almost exactly like this, with some other minor Nginx configurations. I did it all manually I want to get few other VPSes and deploy the exact same setup and configuration but I'm not sure which tool…
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How can I properly update Cobbler's distro_signatures.json to support SecurityOnion?

I am trying to install SecurityOnion (an xubuntu 12.04 based linux distrobution) using cobbler. I have followed the instructions here to get cobbler installed from source on Ubuntu 12.04. I have also followed the instructions here to configure…
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Variable Expansion in Cobbler kopts

In my environment I have large numbers of systems with two interfaces, one is used for system access and management and the other is used for network monitoring. They both are in a link-up state but the monitoring port is TX blocked. When using koan…
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Cobbler version control?

I'm using Cobbler to configure PXE boot for host installation. What are the cobbler components I should keep under version control so that I can review the specifics of a host installation? Changes to snippets, kickstart files, profiles,…
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Why does SSH report "reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo failed" even when PTR record is set?

I'm trying to setup a cluster using a private network on subnet 10. One machine has two interfaces, one to connect to the regular network and the other to connect to all the nodes on subnet 10. This CentOS 6 machine (let's call it "zaza.domain.com")…
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What is the best process to automate Zimbra deploy using cobbler+puppet?

I set up a fully working cobbler server on a RHEL5 machine. This is able to deploy a new server on bare metal machine, partitioning the disks, using LVM and creating as much virtual machines as I need. The virtual machines takes their install…
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Install CentOS 5.6 with Cobbler

I imported centos 5.6 into cobbler and set up all the pxe boot stuff. When I netboot it starts the install, but asks me "What type of media contains the packages to be installed". I'm given a choice of CDROM,HTTP,NFS,etc. I want to install from…
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cobbler in multi vlan environment

I am trying to use cobbler for automated cent OS deployment. we have a multi vlan ( about 5 vlans) network environment. We do not have remote consoles to most of these servers so we cant see pre install server status or PXE boot status how should…
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