[et-mgmt-tools] distro not updating on an IP Address change

[Michael DeHaan]

Patrick Nixon wrote:
> Hey all,
>  I just downloaded and configured my laptop to be a cobbler server.
>
>  One of the requirements is to be able to take this laptop, plug it
> into the appropriate network switch, update the IP Address, and have
> everything work.
>
>  I've worked out updating /var/lib/cobbler/settings and
> /etc/cobbler/dhcp.template and everything is updated with the new IP
> Address once I run cobbler sync.
>
>  Except... /var/lib/cobbler/distros.
>
>  It's retaining the old IP Address in ks_meta tree item and the
> source_repos item.
>
>  Any suggestions on the best method to manage these two items in the file?
>   

You could write a script that read the value of 
/var/lib/cobbler/settings ($server parameter)
and then  updated the contents of /var/lib/cobbler/distros appropriately.

It is a perfectly reasonable request to be able to have a value like 
"$server" inside the "tree" parameter and have
it parse out though. 

I'll see about adding that for 0.6.1  -- we could only use this behavior 
for distros
we imported with "cobbler import" and didn't use the "--available-as" 
parameter, but that would
cover a very large amount of distros.

If implemented as mentioned above, all you would have to do is change 
/var/lib/cobbler/settings and re-sync.

> Thanks,
> --Pat
>
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