Hi, Thanks for your suggestion. That's kind of what I'm doing so far. I "encode" the location in the profile name (I can then parse $profile_name) It works well, but if you have several sites and several distributions, you quickly end up having 30 entries or more in the menu. That's what I would like to change, having only (number of distributions) profiles, instead of (number of distributions x number of sites) profiles
Guillaume On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 9:37 PM, James Cammarata <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Guillaume Rozan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> thanks for taking the time to help. >> >> I could configure PXE in the way you describe, but then all the clients >> of a given subnet will be associated to a specific profile (meaning a >> specific distribution in my case) >> What I want to achieve is a bit like a self-service portal. >> You PXE boot the machine, and choose which distribution you want (rh5, >> rh6, etc) >> >> Then your location is automatically detected by Cobbler, and some >> site-specific things happen (like using the mirror copy of the source tree, >> setting the timezone, etc). >> All this automatically happens in the kickstart file, with a call like >> getvar('ip_address') followed by a couple of conditional statements. >> >> The problem is I can't figure out a way to get this IP address, as >> there's no "cobbler system" existing for each client machine >> > > Why not do this with a ksmeta variable, rather than the IP? Just create > child profiles and set a ksmeta key there that indicates what post-install > actions you want to take. These profiles will show up in the menu when you > pxe, so your users would still be able to self-service. > > For example (assuming you have rhel5/rhel6 distros): > > $ cobbler profile add --name=rhel5-x86_64-zone1 --parent=rhel5-x86_64 > --ksmeta="zone=1" > $ cobbler profile add --name=rhel6-x86_64-zone1 --parent=rhel6-x86_64 > --ksmeta="zone=1" > $ cobbler profile add --name=rhel5-x86_64-zone2 --parent=rhel5-x86_64 > --ksmeta="zone=2" > $ cobbler profile add --name=rhel6-x86_64-zone2 --parent=rhel6-x86_64 > --ksmeta="zone=2" > > Then in your %post snippet: > > #set zone = getVar("zone",1) ## default to zone 1 > #if $zone == 1 > ... > #elif $zone == 2 > ... > #end if > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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