[et-mgmt-tools] cobbler using old IP address

[Michael DeHaan]

Richard Abbott wrote:
> I am having an issue with cobbler holding onto an old ip address.
>
> I have gotten cobbler installed and several systems successfully
> reimaging themselves on a weekly basis from the cobbler server. Last
> week it was necessary to change the ip address of the cobbler server
> from 192.168.1.163 to 192.168.0.163. I have gone through and updated the
> kickstart file to reflect the change and run a cobbler sync.
>
> Then when I tried to reinstall one of the clients with koan I got the
> following output
>
> [root at camaro ~]# koan --server=192.168.0.163 --replace-self
> - Auto detected: camaro
> - using kickstart from cobbler:
> http://192.168.1.163/cblr/kickstarts_sys/camaro/ks.cfg
> Unable to download kickstart, perhaps cobbler sync was not run recently,
> Apache is not running, or the server address in the cobbler settings
> file is wrong.
>
> I went through all of the files in the /var/www/cobbler
> directories(distro, kickstarts, systems, etc.) and found 192.168.1.163
> sprinkled in many different files. I went through and hand modified each
> file to have the correct 0.163 address. When I ran cobbler sync again
> all of the files reverted back to the 192.168.1.163 address.
>
> I am not sure what I need to do to make the cobbler server files have
> the correct addresses in them.
>
>   

I would first upgrade to 0.6.4 if you haven't already.  There's some 
work done there to make cobbler much easier to migrate between server 
addresses.

If you are running an older version, carefully edit the values in 
/var/lib/cobbler/distros and you'll be able to migrate it.  

Once you upgrade to 0.6.4, you can replace the addresses in that file 
with "@@server@@" and then all you'll ever have to edit is the one field 
in /var/lib/cobbler/settings.

(You shouldn't edit files in /var/www/cobbler because they are output 
from cobbler sync.   They are not input files)