[cobbler] Re: Variable extrapolation

2016-12-20 Thread alastair
Hi You might want to log an issue on cobblerd on github? You are more likely to get a response there. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: "Hymowitz, Eric B. (GSFC-444.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC]" <eric.b.hymow...@nasa.gov> To: cobbler maili

[cobbler] Re: Variable extrapolation

2016-12-19 Thread alastair
Hi https://pythonhosted.org/Cheetah/ Try #raw #end raw around your password line with $ in it. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: "Hymowitz, Eric B. (GSFC-444.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC]" <eric.b.hymow...@nasa.gov> To: "cobbler@lists.fedor

[cobbler] Re: After install issue.

2016-12-19 Thread alastair
Hi Tried google? Something like this: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=7177 -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson <rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>, "R. Christopher Johnson" <rchr

[cobbler] Re: post install network snippet for ubuntu

2016-12-14 Thread alastair
/1320#issuecomment-62875655 Alastair Munro On 14/12/2016 16:11, m.ponje...@sky.com wrote: Hi guys I am trying to understand how to use post install network snippet for ubuntu 14.04, but can't get it I kickstart ubuntu box initially using DHCP, but network configuration stays as initial DHCP config

[cobbler] Re: teamd support in cobbler

2016-10-19 Thread alastair
is the network manager method may be more prevalent in the future and the cobbler devs might already have a plan for this for future releases. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: William Muriithi <william.murii...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org&g

[cobbler] Re: teamd support in cobbler

2016-10-15 Thread alastair
:) good answer. If Matt needs higher throughput has he considered a fibre card? Or if its disk IO san might be better over nas? Just a thought. Personally i would just bond it and wait until someone complains about performance. Can always manually reconfigure it afterwards. :) -- Alastair

[cobbler] Re: teamd support in cobbler

2016-10-14 Thread alastair
Ok fair enough. I am not sure cobbler is keeping up with linux tbh. For example those kernel options need to be used with ubuntu 16.04. Maybe there is a future roadmap for cobbler? Or maybe the future is cloud where you dont need to do os installs? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message

[cobbler] Re: teamd support in cobbler

2016-10-14 Thread alastair
naming on el7 (like eth0), as its a bit more predictable for cobbler. Use these as kernel options. net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 On 2016-10-14 17:50, alast...@alastair-munro.com wrote: Network Manager is managing networking via a service.Originally it was designed for GUI logins where you would

[cobbler] Re: teamd support in cobbler

2016-10-14 Thread alastair
the teaming using the older method? Alastair On 2016-10-14 16:01, Matt Luettgen wrote: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Configure_a_Network_Team_Using-the_Command_Line.html On Oct 14, 2016 9:39 AM, "Orion Popl

[cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected

2016-05-25 Thread alastair
not used much at our site. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Locane <loc...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Cc: anthony.schrei...@bc.edu Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:36 Subject: [cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM d

[cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected

2016-05-25 Thread alastair
http://serverfault.com/questions/754360/debian-8-3-0-pxe-installer-asking-for-cdrom -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Tony Schreiner <anthony.schrei...@bc.edu> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Sent: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:23 Subject: [cobbler]

[cobbler] Re: cobbler managing debian install no CD-ROM detected

2016-05-25 Thread alastair
Hi How did u boot? pxe boot or via iso image? if iso image how was this presented? usb stick? if so how was the iso written to usb? dd works best in my experience. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Tony Schreiner <anthony.schrei...@bc.edu> To: cobbler mailing list &l

[cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-tag, profiles, distro

2016-05-05 Thread alastair
override that way. So at a minimum you define hostname, interface, mac address and server override. Then see what cobbler sync generates for dhcpd.conf and the tftpconfig? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Tory M Blue <tmb...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list &l

[cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-tag, profiles, distro

2016-05-05 Thread alastair
ip's even if the build uses pxe (dhcp/tftp). For example if the server cannot get its ip then its not available. Just my tuppence worth. You dont need to follow my advice, but a wise man once said dont make the mistakes yourself but learn from others mistakes. -- Alastair Munro -Original

[cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-tag, profiles, distro

2016-05-02 Thread Alastair Munro
ckstart that will be generate. You can use 'cobbler system dumpvars --name=foo' to dump all the variables for a system. for example http_server and next_server are normally the same thing. Alastair On 2016-05-02 17:44, Tory M Blue wrote: On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 7:48 PM, bishop <bis...@platypus.bc

[cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-tag, profiles, distro

2016-05-02 Thread alastair
mgmt tool like puppet do all the post build config. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Tory M Blue <tmb...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Sent: Mon, 02 May 2016 2:53 Subject: [cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-t

[cobbler] Re: Multiple subnets, multiple dhcp --dhcp-tag, profiles, distro

2016-05-01 Thread alastair
config is not setup correctly. basically you add a system, set ip settings AND ip for the server override, and cobbler passes the server override ip through to wherever its needed. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Tory M Blue <tmb...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list &l

[cobbler] Re: Regular expressions in snippets & templates

2016-03-05 Thread alastair
Hi Cobbler uses cheetah templating, so google that and you will find the documentation for cheetah. A nice thing about cheetah is its based on python and you can embed python in cheetah. With those two hints you should be able to do whatever you want. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message

[cobbler] Re: Ubuntu install with cobbler.

2016-02-13 Thread alastair
Gateway needs to be set on the interface and not global networking section (cobbler web). -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Chris Johnson <rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>, "R. Christopher Johnson&q

[cobbler] Re: Cobbler release 2.6.11

2016-01-25 Thread alastair
Thanks; no rush! Its not urgent so take your time. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Orion Poplawski <or...@cora.nwra.com> To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 23:54 Subject: [cobbler] Re: Cobbler release 2.6.11 On 01/23/2016 07:23 PM, Alastair Munro

[cobbler] Re: Cobbler release 2.6.11

2016-01-23 Thread Alastair Munro
Second that. Just installed a cobbler server in our azure cloud for repo mangement (no server building as azure uses images). Thus will get this updated! When do we think it will get to epel repos? Thanks -- Alastair Munro On 2016-01-23 23:07, Harry Hoffman wrote: Thanks for all

[cobbler] Re: Calling snippets from ksmeta

2015-11-27 Thread alastair
=puppet. Then you can say #if not 'puppet' in disable. Addvol is a comma list of lvm volumes to add in vg_root addvol=/data:10240:lv_data. Point I am trying to make is you can switch functionality on and off via ksmeta variables; that is the way we use cheetah. -- Alastair Munro -Original

Re: [cobbler] Anyone have success installing Ubuntu 15.04?

2015-09-21 Thread alastair
should be considered beta. Tried 14.04 LTS? 16.04 is not far off which is the next LTS. Also you are using the alt/server Ubuntu iso's? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Will Dennis <wden...@nec-labs.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Sent:

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2015-09-06 Thread alastair
of different builds. Thus I haven't tried el7 with new naming; could give it a test tomorrow if not too busy. Thinking about it I think I prefer eth naming; its more predictable and easier to code for (in cheetha). -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: "Ed - 0x1b, Inc." <cobbler

Re: [cobbler] Hello - Newbie need to clone RHEL6 with awesome cobbler - LIPERE Benjamin.

2015-09-05 Thread alastair
Hi Linux building is not based on disk images. There are lots of downsides to building systems this way. Disk geometry changes and maintainability of the build are two. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Daniele Gregori <daniele.greg...@e4company.com> To: cobbler mailin

Re: [cobbler] Hello - Newbie need to clone RHEL6 with awesome cobbler - LIPERE Benjamin.

2015-09-05 Thread alastair
longer, because of all the boot self tests, especially if you have a lot of memory. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: James Clendenan <james.clende...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Sent: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 17:32 Subject: Re: [co

Re: [cobbler] Hello - Newbie need to clone RHEL6 with awesome cobbler - LIPERE Benjamin.

2015-09-05 Thread alastair
I have worked with lsf at two different companies, one a major chip designer. Thus I know about hpc. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Benjamin LIPERE <benjamin.lipere...@gmail.com> To: cobbler mailing list <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org> Sent: Sat, 05 Sep 2015 1

Re: [cobbler] CentOS 7 install failure

2015-09-04 Thread alastair
Try defaulting back to the old eth names? Google it. New way is that ether names are enumerated (en, em, etc). On 2015-09-04 21:07, Xeniya Lisovskaya wrote: Anybody fix this problem? I have Centos7, static IP, and same problem: it is screenshots from IP-KVM:

Re: [cobbler] Repository access mechanisms

2015-07-23 Thread alastair
Or repo sync it. Cobbler has a repo which is synced from an internet repo. Needs some disk space. We do this with centos and oracle linux. Cobbler will do the syncing for you. Install cobbler_web and then its more obvious how it works. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Danko

Re: [cobbler] Creating local RPM repos in Cobbler.

2015-06-17 Thread alastair
-- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Michael Tiernan mtier...@mit.edu To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:09 Subject: [cobbler] Creating local RPM repos in Cobbler. I earlier reported that the instructions on the wiki page didn't work for me. I

Re: [cobbler] Ilo baremetal

2015-05-18 Thread alastair
? I have worked with a lot of HP servers and there isn't anything special other than setting up the underlying raid volume in advance of os install? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Sethuraman, Murali murali.sethura...@capitalone.com To: Alan Evangelista ala

Re: [cobbler] Cobbler release 2.6.8

2015-05-06 Thread alastair
Hi What are the future plans for cobbler? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Jörgen Maas jorgen.m...@gmail.com To: cobbler development list cobbler-de...@lists.fedorahosted.org, cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Wed, 06 May 2015 21:02 Subject: [cobbler

Re: [cobbler] synchronizing cobbler installations

2015-05-01 Thread alastair
might want to look at katello/satellite 6, which has a capsule system based on The Foreman. In essence you have a capsule/proxy per site, which does all your repo mirroring, local dhcp/tftp/etc. This would require alot more effort. Alastair Munro On 2015-04-30 23:53, Jeremy Mordkoff wrote

Re: [cobbler] Import Dell Version of Ubuntu

2015-04-16 Thread alastair
Ubuntu has two installers; the gui manual method (forget what its called) and the debian installer method. You need to import the alt or server versions of ubuntu into cobbler that use debian installer. The standard gui ones don't work. Alastair Munro On 2015-04-16 14:05, Rubén Pérez wrote

Re: [cobbler] Upgrading cobbler from 2.4.4 to 2.6.3

2015-03-13 Thread alastair
upgrading :) rpm -ql cobbler will give you an idea of what to backup before you upgrade cobbler. Don't forget cobbler-web if you have that. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: curt@bt.com To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 18:14 Subject: Re: [cobbler

Re: [cobbler] cobbler import fedora 21 failed

2015-02-25 Thread alastair
Hi Greg There is a cobbler wiki where you can put guides like this. Maybe you can do a quick cut and paste? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Greg Swift gregsw...@gmail.com To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 0:36 Subject: Re

Re: [cobbler] Import RHEL 5u11

2014-10-31 Thread Alastair Munro
. All the other args just make createrepo run faster. Apt is similar; add/update debs and rebuild apt repo structures. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Newman, Stuart J. (GSFC-428.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC] stuart.j.new...@nasa.gov To: cobbler mailing list cobbler

Re: [cobbler] Import RHEL 5u11

2014-10-31 Thread Alastair Munro
package' for any new packages added from your 2nd cd. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Newman, Stuart J. (GSFC-428.0)[HONEYWELL TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC] stuart.j.new...@nasa.gov To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 21:34 Subject: Re

Re: [cobbler] What's the proper way to search the archives of this list?

2014-10-30 Thread Alastair Munro
Hi Same here. I would be interested in the way to search the archive. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Kirk Lewis kirk_le...@jabil.com To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 0:35 Subject: [cobbler] What's the proper way to search the archives of this list

Re: [cobbler] Problems with EPEL7 repo

2014-10-23 Thread Alastair Munro
I have centos and rhel 7.0 repos in cobbler working fine. Used the import iso on web page. No issues, apart from centos is missing loads of 32bit libs (which rhel has). Not a cobbler issue; issue with contents of iso. -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Orion Poplawski

[cobbler] static ip booting ubuntu/debian from iso image: always uses dhcp

2014-10-23 Thread alastair
logged this as a bug. Probably needs some testing to see which ubuntu/debian distros this applies to, but I see this since 12.04 (we only use the LTS releases). I logged a bug about this; looks easy to fix. Will give it some more testing tomorrow. Alastair Munro Senior Linux Sysadmin

Re: [cobbler] Problems with EPEL7 repo

2014-10-23 Thread Alastair Munro
? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Orion Poplawski or...@cora.nwra.com To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:38 Subject: Re: [cobbler] Problems with EPEL7 repo On 10/22/2014 03:53 AM, Personal Técnico wrote: Hello, I'm trying to add EPEL7

Re: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
didn't have to tweak the sample.seed much. Alastair On 2014-09-25 16:39, Will Dennis wrote: Hi all, Went looking for an automated way to install a bunch of Ubuntu (14.04) nodes I had to bring up, and happily found that Ubuntu now supports Kickstart (albeit in a non-complete way...) https

[cobbler] Fwd: RE: Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
I seem to have replied to Will rather than the list via my phone :) Original Message Subject: RE: [cobbler] Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed? Date: 2014-09-25 20:53 From: Alastair Munro alast...@alastair-munro.com To: Will Dennis Hi I suspect

[cobbler] Fwd: RE: Can deploy Ubuntu using a kickstart file rather than a preseed?

2014-09-25 Thread alastair
: Will Dennis wden...@nec-labs.com To: Alastair Munro alast...@alastair-munro.com Thanks for your help in this. So far, trying to spec partitions in d-i has been a rather painful experience... Using a ks file is MUCH less painful in this area (even if all the partitioner options are not available

[cobbler] Creating custom apt repositories in centos or el based cobbler

2014-09-23 Thread alastair
\ http://$http_server/cblr/repo_mirror/${repo.name}/public.pgp #set $cur=$cur+1 #end for #end for Alastair Munro ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Re: [cobbler] Fwd: [cobbler-devel] Templated scripts

2014-09-17 Thread alastair
they are and how to use them? Thanks Alastair On 2014-09-16 20:23, Jörgen Maas wrote: Hi Cobbler users, Is anyone using the functionality as described below? Please let us know! Thanks -- Forwarded message -- From: LEONID FLAKS fl...@bnl.gov Date: Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:46 AM

Re: [cobbler] Creating custom/local repos

2014-08-19 Thread alastair
at the top of the kickstart. Documentation is minimal with cobber, so you just have to try and work out what it does. Similar to alot of open source; you need to play around with it and work out how it works. Alastair On 2014-08-19 16:07, André Gemünd wrote: Michael, I assume you mean

Re: [cobbler] cobbler Linux-Mint support

2014-08-16 Thread Alastair Munro
Ubuntu based distros: you need to import the server or alternate versions. The live cd ones fail. I dont know why; maybe the live cd install process is incompatible with cobbler or ubuntu seeds? Maybe someone else knows why? Alastair -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From

Re: [cobbler] Kickstaring across a site-to-site link

2014-08-15 Thread alastair
data centers? Install on vlan and the swap IPs/vlan after build? Alastair On 2014-08-15 01:53, Caleb Moniot wrote: Cobblers, I'm sure I'm not the only one in this situation so I'm hoping some others in the cobbler community can lend me the benefit of their experience in this scenario. I'm

[cobbler] Creating custom/local repos

2014-08-12 Thread alastair
Hi All Added a page on the wiki on how to create your own custom repos for putting rpms that don't fit anywhere else: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki Alastair ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https

Re: [cobbler] How to speed up triggers

2014-08-11 Thread alastair
Hi All I updated the wiki: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki Hopefully it will help someone out there (as lots of googling helps me) :) Alastair On 2014-08-10 06:39, Jörgen Maas wrote: Hi Alastair, Great writeup. We do have a wiki where Cobbler users can share their solutions

[cobbler] How to speed up triggers

2014-08-09 Thread alastair
Hi Just wanted to share something with the list. When creating triggers to say run a 'cobbler replicate' via ssh, etc, to remote cobbler servers, the web page waits for the ssh at the remote end to complete. This produced quite a delay if you are say updating a system and waiting for the

Re: [cobbler] Issue with 2.6.4-1 cobbler

2014-08-09 Thread Alastair Munro
Is apache started? Suggest you see whether you can connect to the url? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Dhanasekaran Anbalagan bugcy...@gmail.com To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 0:51 Subject: [cobbler] Issue with 2.6.4-1 cobbler Hi Guys, Today I

Re: [cobbler] Issue with 2.6.4-1 cobbler

2014-08-09 Thread Alastair Munro
Doesn't 'cobbler check' tell you to set server and next_server to something other than 127.0.0.1? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: Dhanasekaran Anbalagan bugcy...@gmail.com To: cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 1:24 Subject: Re

Re: [cobbler] Issue with 2.6.4-1 cobbler

2014-08-09 Thread alastair
server in there for clients across the network to connect to your cobbler server... google isolinux and pxe boot so you understand the basics of what you are trying to do. On 2014-08-10 01:39, Dhanasekaran Anbalagan wrote: Hi Alastair, I am getting same Error, when I try to execute cobbler check

[cobbler] Putting files under /var/www/cobbler/pub?

2014-08-05 Thread alastair
in there elsewhere and adding another http browsable area to apache like http://server/cobbler? Thanks Alastair Munro ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Re: [cobbler] How to debug...

2014-08-02 Thread Alastair Munro
Are you sure static was not ticked for ip on the interface ? -- Alastair Munro -Original Message- From: André Gemünd andre.gemu...@scai.fraunhofer.de To: mtier...@mit.edu, cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:57 Subject: Re: [cobbler] How to debug

Re: [cobbler] How to debug...

2014-07-31 Thread alastair
Check next_server in /etc/cobbler settings, restart xinetd, add -v (or -vv or -vvv) to /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file, what is in /var/lib/tftp/pxelinux.cfg? Is there a file with the mac address in this dir? Check logging in /var/log/messages... All this should give you an idea of what is going on.

Re: [cobbler] cobbler_web does not support sub profiles fully?

2014-07-21 Thread alastair
kickstart file. The sub profile will inherit everything for the master. Master profile el6 will cater for all el6 distros (rh,centos, oracle linux and minor releases within el6; eg update 5). Thanks Alastair On 2014-07-17 09:42, alast...@alastair-munro.com wrote: Hi I restarted cobblerd

Re: [cobbler] cobbler_web does not support sub profiles fully?

2014-07-21 Thread alastair
file (nothing uses it) and restarted cobblerd. Alastair On 2014-07-21 13:18, alast...@alastair-munro.com wrote: Hi Wondered if anyone had looked at this bug yet? Reason I want to use sub profiles is we try and keep things simple. So we have a profile called el6. We have one kickstart

[cobbler] cobbler_web does not support sub profiles fully?

2014-07-17 Thread alastair
in advance Alastair ___ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Re: [cobbler] cobbler_web does not support sub profiles fully?

2014-07-17 Thread alastair
build variations. Thanks Alastair On 2014-07-17 09:37, Jörgen Maas wrote: Hi, I was just wondering who would use subprofiles ;-). We have another issue with them, even from the cli (see: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues/1030 [2]) But to answer your question: i'm pretty sure