[Spacewalk-list] Template variables not available

[Jon Miller]

jonEbird at gmail.com writes:

> Should I be able to use variables seen from a "cobbler system dumpvars"
> command in my Spacewalk script? 
>
> I am having a problem re-using a template enabled script from a cobbler
> build system over on my Spacewalk server. The script is used to help setup
> network interface configurations and starts with:
> #if $getVar("system_name","") != ""
>
> I do not have "system_name" defined in my System Details -> Variables section
> on Spacewalk but I do see the variables via the "cobbler system dumpvars
> --name=server-16":
> ...
> system_name : server-16
> ...
>
> That #if block always fails and I'm not getting my interfaces configured at
> all. If I ask for the kickstart file via cobbler (on my Spacewalk server), it
> yields the block correct:
> sudo cobbler system getks --name=server-16
>
> Perhaps my problem is how I'm initiating the kickstart? I'm using a corporate
> PXE server that I can update and have created an entry that uses the
> following boot options:
>   ks=http://spacewalk.example.com/ks/cfg/org/6/label/test-profile
>   initrd=fedora18-x86_64/initrd.img text nofb noipv6 network kssendmac 
>
> I thought I just needed to have kssendmac included and Spacewalk would see
> the server... Actually, while composing this, I noticed that the dumpvars
> command has "mac_address_eth0 : 00:15:17:9b:6a:d0" and this is a Fedora 18
> build and I'm guessing it had interface em1 UP and not an eth0. Could that
> explain why Spacewalk isn't identifying my machine and pulling in the cobbler
> variables? I'm going to test with adding "biosdevname=0" to my kernel boot
> options.

I thought I had potentially solved my problem after coming up with that last
theory while composing my last email. The server just completed it's
re-install and once again my saved kickstart file shows an empty section
where the template would have included extra commands.

I guess my main question remains: What is the proper way to initiate a
kickstart from Spacewalk and associate a unique client and use the cobbler
variables defined?

Thanks,
-- 
Jon Miller