[Spacewalk-list] cobbler integration with kickstart variables

[Jonathan Hoser]

Hi Dallas,

You might want to look at the cheetah template how-tos;
e.g. if you set some variable in cobbler - like say (extracted from system-report)

Kickstart Metadata             : {'isOldIBM': 'true'}

You could use that in the Spacewalk-Kickstart as follows:

#set $isOldIBM = $getVar('isOldIBM', 'false')
#if $isOldIBM == 'true'

cat somefile > somewhere
do some other stuff

#else

do something else

#end if

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Important to note, is that commands are immedialy after the sharp '#' (#set, #if, #else, #end if)
otherwise the templating system does not get them.
The remainder should be obvious!

Best
-Jonathan

On 09/06/2014 05:46 PM, Dallas Graves wrote:
Hi All,
This may be more of a "Cobbler" question, but still relevant to Spacewalk in how I am trying to utilize the platform.  And please excuse me if this has already been answered in another post, I've been searching the web for a couple days now and haven't found any leads so I figured I'd join the DL and post here.

I'm curious if there is a more efficient way to utilize kickstart variables in conjunction with Cobbler?  Essentially, I'd like to have Kickstart use the variables I've set in the Cobbler System Profile, such as hostname, ip-address, etc... and use those as variables for the same in the Kickstart script.

My end goal is to have a single kickstart file to maintain instead of manually updating the variables each time I kickstart a machine, or even worse, each system having it's own KS file.

Thanks,
-Dallas Graves



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