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

Wed Apr 30 11:46:24 UTC 2008

What I'm hoping to achieve here, is to register the system with cobbler on
first boot, I'm planning on plugging it into a script that runs at first
boot anyway. Since auto reg isn't part of cobbler 0.8.3-3.el5, I'm hoping to
use this as a work around.

It works fine registering the system name and profile, but falls over when I
try and register the mac. Will have a snoop around in the code..

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Michael DeHaan <mdehaan at redhat.com> wrote:

> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
>
> In the interest of completeness, the issue is that cobbler now suppports
> multiple network interfaces.  So your script has to use the API to modify
> network interfaces, which is slightly varied from the above.   See remote.py
> on the devel branch for how that is done.   The WebUI, which is written
> against the same XMLRPC interface, is also a good reference.
>  (cobbler/web/CobblerWeb.py)
>
>
> >
> >
> > > 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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