Hello,
I would like to write a cobbler trigger to do something every time I add a
system. I looked at the documentation at:
https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/CobblerTriggers
but I think I am missing something.
A simple example is given in the form of a shell script and it shows $1 used
as the name of a newly added system. However, I see nothing defining the
arguments passed, nor the environment. I see that one can use the
CobblerApi, but when I follow the link it tells me not to use "BootApi" (is
BootApi == CobblerApi?) but to use "CobblerXmlrpc" instead. That seems to be
a client/server system. The trigger docs say not to use it.
A says use B. B says don't use B, use C. A says don't use C. ????
So, is there anything defining the trigger API?
Does one really need to use Python to do anything meaningful? I'm definitely
not a Python wiz.
It says that pre-triggers can prevent an add operation. How? Just exit(1)?
How do I report errors back to the user?
In case it would help to understand my situation, I would like to be able to
leave the networking empty and have a system add operation automatically
define eth0 using the hostname to look up the MAC via "getent ethers
hostname". I can easily write the code to do the lookup in sh/bash/ksh or
perl, but I need to be able to supply the information back to the cobbler
system after the lookup. I need to be able to fail on errors.
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