[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler 0.3.6 released

[Michael DeHaan]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> The major feature for this release is support for kickstart status 
> tracking as mentioned earlier in the list archives.
>
> If you have an existing installation, after the upgrade, it will still 
> work absolutely fine, but to get kickstart tracking to work, you'll need
> to change the --url parameter in your kickstart files to get useful 
> data from the "cobbler status" command. Anyhow, the kickstart URL 
> changes are as follows:
>
> before:   http://server/cobbler/...
> after:      http://server/cobbler_track/...
>
> If you look at the new default kickstart files in /etc/cobbler (they 
> should be saved with an .rpmnew extension for upgrades), you can also 
> see the new TEMPLATE:: entry in the %post section.    This is where 
> cobbler writes in the code that signals kickstart completion.     Add 
> that too, and "cobbler status" will do a pretty good job of telling 
> you when machines are finished installing.
>
> From the changelog:
>
> - locking feature now enabled
> - "enchant" now supports provisioning virtual images remotely when 
> using --is-virt=yes
> - cobbler no longer restarts httpd if the config file already exists.
> - "cobbler repo sync" is now an alias for "cobbler reposync"
> - "cobbler list (something)" can now be invoked as "cobbler 
> (something) list"
> - "cobbler list" just shows names of items now
> - "cobbler report" is now used for showing full information output
> - "list" (as well as report) are now sorted alphabetically
> - basic kickstart tracking feature. requests on /var/www/cobbler get 
> logged to /var/log/cobbler.
>
> Fire away, and as usual, comments and ideas on the above are welcome.
>
> Upcoming ideas/improvements for Cobbler 0.3.7 / Koan 0.2.6:
> -- better default kickstarts that are hard drive type/size aware 
> (using some good input gained from cobbler users and kickstart-list)
> -- koan installing into NFS roots for Xen, possible support for LVM 
> partitions and hardware virt
> -- ...
>
> Thanks to David Mackintosh for suggesting many of the usability 
> improvements in this release.
>
>
> --Michael
>
>
>
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Incidentally there is some opportunity of adding remote syslogging 
support as well (probably by adding a small watcher/logger daemon), to 
complement the file access logs.

I'll be looking into this for 0.3.7 also and the logging structure will 
be similar.   It will likely allow for more fine grained status monitoring.

--Michael