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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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How to dynamically pass hostname to kickstart file with cobbler

In the kickstart file you can set the hostname like this: network --hostname=derp.fart I can create a new system with this command cobbler system add --name=MYNEWSYSTEM --profile=string --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF How Can I have cobbler put the name…
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How to manually boot a system to cobbler and assign a kickstart profile base on MAC without PXE

I can manually point a linux host to the cobbler server's kickstart profile from the centos 7 boot screen by plugging in inst.ks=http://10.1.1.1:80/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/derpprofile and that works (I could create a CD to do this automatically). But…
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cobbler injecting ~'s into reposync for ubuntu, causing failures

Cobbler 2.8.0 OS: centos 6.6 when trying to run reposync, it fails on ubuntu repos, with the following command: /usr/bin/debmirror --nocleanup --verbose ~ --ignore-release-gpg ~ --method=http --host=archive.ubuntu.com --root=/ubuntu…
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Why doesn't my Apache LocationMatch directive work?

I need help getting apache's LocationMatch to work. I'm trying to set up a cobbler server, and it requires SSL by default. I want to rewrite so that people can use http://server/cobbler_web instead as well as the https://server/cobbler_web, and it…
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Changes in kickstart file do not take effect in Cobbler

I am using Cobbler to install SLES 11 SP2 and it has been running fine all the while. Recently I modified the kickstart file by changing the size of the root partition from 18GB to 36GB. To my surprise the modification did not take place - Cobbler…
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Using Management classes with cobbler

So, I've been working on creating a standardized install image, and worked out all the kinks, now I need to deliver it. What I decided to do is to use cobbler to create templated kickstart installs, but I've hit a bit of a documentation dead-zone:…
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Sync Ubuntu repository with Cobbler server fails

I am trying to sync the Ubuntu trusty repo to my cobbler server. The issue is that for some reason the connection seems unstable during the parts that work.. additionally it fails to proceed with one of the repositories. It seems I don't have any…
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Cobbler and puppet with multiple clients - best setup?

I have setup a cobbler and puppet and they are working fine (quite). I am still in a testing phase, so all testing are performed on a single client server. However, in the real environment, this cobbler+puppet setup will run against multiple…
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How can I manually add packages to cobbler repo (RHEL/CENTOS)

So I have an air-gapped network. We primarily use RHEL, sometimes CentOS. I'm building a utility "cloud" that needs to be able to kickstart from bare metal, as well as provision vms and kickstart them. Cobbler (2.4.0) seems like a better choice…
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Running scripts during pxe build

I am trying to find a solution when deploying VMs and physical hosts using PXE where I can interact with a database to build a host or VM so I can manipulate the build process. An example of this would be to build a xenserver using a database so I…
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non-PXE, non-DHCP cobbler media

I have a single DHCP scope for building systems in one site, and another site which doesn't (at least yet) have infrastructure for building systems using cobbler. Eventually I'd like to scale this all out, but for now I want to use the cobbler…
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How do I base a volume group name on the sytem's name in a cobbler kickstart template?

We normally use autopart for patitioning. However, it's default sizing logic does not match our needs (we want to limit the size of the home logical volume). When we try to manually partition the space (using part, volgroup, logvol) we run into the…
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Cobbler assisted Xen guest install halts on reboot

I'm using cobbler and koan to install virtual guests on a Xen installation. The kickstart file does the install and then reboots. However, the configuration of the guest (from dumpxml in virsh) shows: destroy instead of "restart" so the machine…
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Why should I use cobbler over normal PXEBOOT server?

Maybe it's me but I find it easier to manage my simple pxeboot server just by editing the default file under /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg. I have my kickstart file available over NFS along with the DVD extracted to a centralize mount point. Other than…
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Difficulty booting HPE server via PXE in UEFI mode

We have some HPE ProLiant blade servers, Gen9, which we would like to network boot to install CentOS. We are using Cobbler to produce a configuration. At boot time, the server will request a file named for its UUID, which fails. It then asks by…
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