Chris O'Regan wrote:
>>> Interesting, I did not notice that on the wiki when I was hunting for 
>>> information this afternoon. 
>>>       
>> Thanks for the heads up! I'll put it up there.
>>     
>
> It was there, I just didn't notice it. :-S
>
>   
>>> Hrmm...my "ks_mirror" directory on my dev box 
>>> is pretty much empty (just a "config" directory). Am I missing 
>>> something? What should be in there?  
>>>       
>> That's the directory used by "cobbler import", if you were sourcing 
>> trees externally (without mirroring them) this data would not be in use.
>>     
>
> Ah...I experimented with "cobbler import" but since I am already using 
> mrepo I did not have the need for it.
>   


Cobbler has quite a few facilities to deal with yum repositories (all 
thanks to the bits behind yum utils), so there is not a need for mrepo 
anymore in most cases.

>   
>>> Is this going to replicate my kickstarts and snippets, too, or do I have 
>>> to find a way of sharing them? If the latter, can those be put onto NFS 
>>> safely? What mechanism is used for replication? 
>>>       
>> Yes, it can help move over as little or as much as you want. See 
>> "cobbler replicate --help"in 1.2.4. If it can't do something you want, 
>> let me know, and we can see about adding it.
>>     
>
> Hrmm...I am still using v1.0.3...I'm way behind the times! Time to 
> upgrade... :-)
>
>   
>> Replication is achieved using Cobbler XMLRPC for basic data, and files 
>>     
>
> This would be the read-only listener (tcp/25151), correct?
>   

Correct.

>   
>> are transferred using scp/rsync. Usage of ssh-agent before cobbler 
>> replicate is therefore recommended unless you are using authorized_keys.
>>     
>
> That's perfect; we use ssh for a number of tasks similar to this 
> already. Is it possible to specify a key to use? We like to lock down a 
> key to a specific command, host, etc.
>   

ssh-add should take care of this. If you want to put that inside a shell 
script that wraps cobbler replicate that might work for you.

> I still have some questions regarding cobbler's architecture, but this 
> gives me a better understanding. Thanks!
>   

Feel free to start another thread and ask away as needed, that's what 
we're here for!
>
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