Hi Mike, you need to enable EPEL and install koan in your kickstart. I forgot to mention that as we have it in our default package list (handy for reinstalls). We mirror EPEL with cobbler repo and then add it to the profile repos field for nearly all of our profiles (except the bare minimal). If you have the $yum_repo_stanza in your kickstart, this will enable it for installs.
Cheers Andre ----- Am 5. Nov 2015 um 22:16 schrieb Waldron, Michael H [email protected]: > Andre, > > I am running a default installation and the kickstart does have the > $SNIPPET('cobbler_register') entry, however it's not working. The system > doesn't get registered and just installs again when rebooted. I do have > register_new_installs set also. I see that after installation the > cobbler-register command is not installed on the worker. Am I missing > something? > > Mike > > Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:14:21 +0100 (CET) > From: André Gemünd <[email protected]> > To: cobbler mailing list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [cobbler] Provisioning a cluster > Message-ID: > <1369099692.750496.1446714861962.javamail.zim...@scai.fraunhofer.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > >> I am new to Cobbler, and am wondering if anyone uses it to provision a large >> cluster? Rather than having to collect a lot of MAC addresses and manually >> create all the system records, I'd like to be able to have systems register >> themselves when they are first booted. > > Assuming the Cobbler server sits in an internal cluster network, when we are > provisioning the (uniform) worker nodes for the first time, we simply set the > default entry for PXE boots to provision the correct distro, depending on your > paths e.g. in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. You can enable menu in > cobbler settings to let cobbler sync generate you a file showing the available > profiles with the correct params. In the kickstart we use cobbler_register. > >> I've seen the snippet 'cobbler_register' which seems intended for this >> purpose, >> but I can't figure out how to use it. Is anyone doing this? If so can you >> provide specifics on how to do so? > > The snippet should just work when its used in a kickstart with > $SNIPPET('cobbler_register'). Be sure to set register_new_installs in cobbler > settings. We also have pxe_just_once set to 1. > > -- > André Gemünd > Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing > [email protected] > Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 > /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing [email protected] Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
