On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:37:34AM -0500, Glenn Bailey wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:24:18AM -0500, Glenn Bailey wrote:
> > > What's the best method to define site specific settings? I basically
> > > have multiple Cobbler servers setup at various physical locations
> > > and each of these locations have different DNS, NTP, Timezones, etc.
> > > For DNS it appears I could use the "name_servers" option in the
> > > settings file, but that would be the only one.
> > 
> > Also cobbler-slaves in several locations here.
> > The different settings (i.e. what ldap-servers are to be used for
> > user-auth on the newly deployed server) are currently handed over
> > by the deploying admin using ksmeta-vars.
> 
> So for each distro profile you create another distro locally that's a
> slave for each distro? Seems a little cumbersome .. :-( I'm trying to
> keep each distro location agnostic. It seems I would also have to make
> a new name for each profile in each location as not to have them over
> written when a sync happens, is this the case? 

Over here we do not use cobblers sync-features.  Instead all distros
directories are offered to the cobbler-slaves via rsync and can selec-
tively be fetched.  Then the directory is manually made known to the
cobbler-slave as distro/profile/repo in pasting some cobbler-commands
out of a wiki into the slaves terminal.  One could then also in these
commands source a text-file on that slave that contains some slave-
specific ksmetas.  Should also work that everything including the
profiles gets synced to the slaves and just then a local-only profile
is copied from the provided one, additionally setting ksmeta from the
textfile.


> Goes back to my original question, is there another method to do it
> without creating separate slave profiles? I haven't seen any examples
> for cheetah_macro's or even if this would be a good place.

Or ksmeta to be fetched dynamically from the harddisc.. maybe hooks
can help you.

Christian
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