Cobbler Automatic Installation system

Installing the Epel source

RPM-IVH epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Yum installs cobbler and relies on

Yum Install cobbler httpd rsync tftp-server xinetd dhcp python-ctypes cman pykickstart system-config-kickstart debmirror C Obbler-web Koan Syslinux-y

Configure Cobbler

Vim/etc/cobbler/settings

Manage_dhcp:1#启用cobbler管理DHCP功能

Manage_rsync:1#启用cobbler管理rsync功能

next_server:192.168.80.10#DHCP服务地址

server:192.168.80.10#cobbler服务地址

Check off iptables and SELinux

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

Vim/etc/sysconfig/selinux

Selinux=disabled

Configuring TFTP and Rsync

Vim/etc/xinetd.d/tftp

Disable No

Vim/etc/xinetd.d/rsync

Yes, it's all changed to No.

Enable the Wsgi module

Vim/etc/httpd/conf.d/wsgi.conf

Remove comments

#LoadModule

Generate Cobbler Installation system root initial password

Here generate the key and configure the default key, KS file reference

OpenSSL passwd-1-salt ' random-phrase-here ' 123456 '

Adding keys to the configuration file

Vim/etc/cobbler/settings

Default_password_crypted: Key

Configure DHCP

cp/etc/cobbler/dhcp.template/etc/cobbler/dhcp.template.$ (date +%f) #备份

Vim/ect/cobbler/dhcp.template

Subnet 192.168.80.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

Option routers 192.168.80.2;

Option Domain-name-servers 114.114.114.114;

Option Subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

Range DYNAMIC-BOOTP 192.168.80.100 192.168.80.254;

Default-lease-time 21600;

Max-lease-time 43200;

Next-server $next _server;

Configure related services boot from boot

Configure related services to turn on self-booting

/ETC/INIT.D/HTTPD start

/ETC/INIT.D/DHCPD start

/etc/init.d/xinetd start

/etc/init.d/cobblerd start

Chkconfig httpd on

Chkconfig DHCPD on

Chkconfig Cobblerd on

Chkconfig xinetd on

Chkconfig TFTP on

Download boot operating system files

Cobbler Get-loaders

Configure Debmirror

Yum Install Debmirror-y

Modify the/etc/debmirror.conf file

# @dists = "Sid"; # @arches = "i386";

Check the Cobbler configuration

Cobbler Check

Synchronization configuration

Cobbler Sync

Configuration Management Cobbler

Cobbler Command Description

Cobbler Check Cobbler Configuration

Cobbler list lists all the cobbler elements

Cobbler report listing details of elements

Cobbler distro Viewing the imported release system Information

Cobbler System View added systems information

Cobbler Sync Sync Cobbler Configuration, change the configuration to perform the last

Cobbler configuration File Description

Cobbler configuration file is stored under/etc/cobbler

/etc/cobbler/settingsCobbler master configuration file

/etc/cobbler/users.digest User name password configuration file for Web Access

/etc/cobbler/modules.conf Template configuration file

/etc/cobbler/users.confCobbler webui/web Service Authorization profile

/etc/cobbler/isobuildiso template configuration file

/etc/cobbler/power Power configuration file

/etc/cobbler/pxepxeprofile configuration template

/etc/cobbler This directory page contains template profiles for rsync, DHCP, DNS, PXE, DNSMASQ, and other services

System Image Data Catalog/var/www/cobbler

Imported system releases, repos images and kickstart files are placed in the/var/www/cobbler directory

Make sure that the/var directory has enough space to store these files

/var/www/cobbler/images/ Store kernel and INITRD images for all imported distributions for remote network boot

/var/www/cobbler/repo_mirror/ Warehouse Storage Directory

/var/log/cobblerCobbler log file Cobbler.log Install.log

Cobbler Data Catalog/var/lib/cobbler

This directory stores and cobbler profiles, systems, distros-related configurations

/var/lib/cobbler/config/ stores information profiles such as distros, repos, systems, and profiles, typically JSON files

/var/lib/cobbler/snippets/ Storing KS files can be imported script small fragment

/var/lib/cobbler/triggers Storing user-defined cobbler commands

/var/lib/cobbler/kickstart/ Storing Kickstart configuration files

Related log files

Web Log storage Point

/var/log/httpd/access_log

/var/log/httpd/error_log

/var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log

/var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log

Cobbler Log

/var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log

/var/log/cobbler/install.log

Import System Image

Upload ISO image to server

Create an ISO Catalog

Mkdir-pv/opt/iso/linux/centos/x86_64

Mkdir-pv/opt/os/linux/centos/x86_64/centos6.5/dvd

Mount ISO Image

Mount-o loop/opt/iso/linux/centos/x86_64/centos-6.5-x86_64-bin-dvd1.iso/opt/os/linux/centos/x86_64/centos6.5/ dvd/

Import OS data from DVD

System version named centos6.5 Schema x86_64 to view ls/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/centos6.5-x86_64/directory file generation

Cobbler Import--path=/opt/os/linux/centos/x86_64/centos6.5/dvd--name=centos6.5--arch=x86_64

List the imported configurations

Cobbler List

List details can be used Cobbler report

To delete an imported system

Cobbler profile Find--distro=centos6.5-x86_64 #查看配置是否存在

Cobbler profile Remove--name=centos6.5-x86_64 #删除distro

Cobbler profile Find--distro=centos6.5-x86_64 #再查看配置已无

Custom KS

Change Kickstart file, available for HTTP etc, specific Cobbler--help view, here we customize KS file

KS Catalogue

/var/lib/cobbler/kickstart/

Change the KS profile for the specified version

Cobbler Profile Edit--name=centos6.5-x86_64--kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/centos6.5.cfg

Configuration Information View

Cobbler Report

Synchronous Cobbler Configuration

It is recommended that you perform a configuration check on cobbler check before performing cobbler sync, and you need to perform this step after modifying the cobbler configuration

KS File Example

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Cobbler Automatic Installation system