[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler API - Mac registration problem

[Michael DeHaan]

Eamonn Walsh wrote:
> Its just a test script at the moment, I want to see what it can do
>
> system_id = remote.new_system(token)
> remote.modify_system(system_id,'name', 'Imatest2',token)
> remote.modify_system(system_id,'profile', 'Testing',token)
> remote.modify_system(system_id, 'mac', 'FF:EE:DD:CC:BB:AA',token)
> remote.save_system(system_id,token)
>
> I think the problem is because the 'mac' key is in a nested list, not 
> sure though.

Ah, this is your script?   Glad to see more interest in API hacking! 

Yes, I did some work to add this recently.   Definitely check out the 
devel branch.    If you are interested in the code, see 'remote.py' and 
'services.py'.
The idea was to consolidate all of the cgi-bin stuff on mod_python to 
simplify things.    All of the mod_python code ('services.py') 
effectively sends requests
down to cobblerd via XMLRPC ('remote.py').    Since this relies on 
kssendmac in the kernel options line, you won't see results from running 
"wget", but if you request those kickstart URLs from Anaconda 
registration (if enabled in settings via the new option) will occur.

It has some security features in that it will not add a system if mac is 
already in the "database" and works by detecting the mac of the system
when they request the kickstart file from the mod python kickstart 
generator (kickstarts are no longer statically generated on the filesystem).

--Michael


>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Pablo Iranzo Gómez 
> <Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com <mailto:Pablo.Iranzo at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>
>            Is it possible to have the script to play with it?
>
>            Will try to check how this works and possible usages :)
>
>            Thanks!
>            Pablo
>
>     El mié, 30-04-2008 a las 09:42 +0100, Eamonn Walsh escribió:
>     > Hi Guys,
>     >
>     > Doing some work with the cobbler api and getting the fallowing error
>     >
>     > Traceback (most recent call last):
>     >   File "rpc-cobbler-test", line 20, in ?
>     >     remote.modify_system(system_id, 'interfaces : mac_address',
>     > 'FF:EE:DD:CC:BB:AA', token)
>     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib
>     > .py", line 1096, in __call__
>     >     return self.__send(self.__name, args)
>     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1383, in __request
>     >     verbose=self.__verbose
>     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1147, in request
>     >     return self._parse_response(h.getfile(), sock)
>     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 1286, in
>     > _parse_response
>     >     return u.close()
>     >   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/xmlrpclib.py", line 744, in close
>     >     raise Fault(**self._stack[0])
>     > xmlrpclib.Fault: <Fault 1: "cobbler.cexceptions.CX:'object has no
>     > method: mac'">
>     >
>     > Line of code causing this problem:
>     >
>     > remote.modify_system(sys_id, 'mac', 'AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF', token)
>     >
>     > Any ideas? Using cobbler 0.8.3-3.el5
>     >
>     > Thanks,
>     >
>     > Eamonn
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