Cobbler Batch installation of Linux (centos6.5)

1. Installing Cobbler

(1). Packages required to install third-party repositories

#cd/tmp

#wget http://mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/fedora/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

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

(2). Install DHCP

#yum-y Install DHCP

(3). Install Other related software

#yum-y install tftp rsync xinetd httpd

(4). Install Cobbler

#yum-y Install Cobbler

2. Turn off SELinux and firewalls

#setenforce 0

#service iptables Stop

3. Start Cobbler and related services

#service httpd Start

#chkconfig httpd on

#service Cobblerd Start

#chkconfig Cobblerd on

4. Set Cobbler

(1). Cobbler Check

The following message appears when you are finished executing

The following is potential configuration items and that's want to fix:

1:the ' server ' field in/etc/cobbler/settings must is set to something other than localhost, or kickstarting features WI  ll not work. This should is a resolvable hostname or IP for the boot server as reachable by all machines that would use it.

2:for PXE to be functional, the ' next_server ' field in/etc/cobbler/settings must is set to something other than 127.0.0 .1, and should match the IP of the boot server on the PXE network.

3:selinux is enabled. Review the following wiki page for details on ensuring cobbler works correctly in your SELinux environment:

Https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/wiki/Selinux

4:some network boot-loaders is missing from/var/lib/cobbler/loaders, you could run ' cobbler get-loaders ' to download the M, or, if you are want to handle x86/x86_64 netbooting, your may ensure so you have installed a *recent* version of the  Syslinux package installed and can ignore this message entirely. Files in this directory, should want to support all architectures, should include pxelinux.0, MENU.C32, Elilo.efi, and Yaboot. The ' Cobbler get-loaders ' command is the easiest-to resolve these requirements.

5:change ' disable ' to ' no ' in/etc/xinetd.d/rsync

6:debmirror package isn't installed, it'll be required to manage Debian deployments and repositories

7:ksvalidator is not found, install Pykickstart

8:the default password used by the sample templates for newly installed machines (default_password_crypted IN/ETC/COBBL Er/settings) is still set to ' cobbler ' and should be changed, try: "OpenSSL passwd-1-salt ' Random-phrase-here ' Your-pas Sword-here ' "To generate new one

9:fencing tools were not found, and is required to use the (optional) power management features. Install Cman or fence-agents to use them

Restart Cobblerd and then run ' Cobbler Sync ' to apply changes.

(2). Modify as required

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Modify the server parameter in this/etc/cobbler/settings configuration file to be the IP

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Modify the Next_server parameter in this/etc/cobbler/settings configuration file to the IP of this server

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If you start the SELinux security thing, you need to shut it down.

#setenforce 0

or modify the selinux=disabled in the configuration file/etc/selinux/config, this step requires a restart of the operating system

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#cobbler get-loaders

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Modify Disable = No in configuration file/etc/xinetd.d/rsync

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#yum-y install ed patch perl perl-digest-sha1 Perl-libwww-perl perl-compress-zlib perl-lockfile-simple

#rpm-IVH debmirror-20090807-1.el5.noarch.rpm

#vim/etc/debmirror.conf

Note the following two lines

# @dists = "Sid";

# @arches = "i386";

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#yum-y Install Pykickstart

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To modify the default password for the cobbler user, you can use the following command to generate a password and replace the password in/etc/cobbler/settings with the generated password to find this line default_password_crypted

Here is the command to generate the password

#openssl passwd-1-salt ' daoke ' Mirrtalk '

will generate the following password

$1$daoke$p2t8sddadwh.qoeqiueur/

Replace can

During the modification process, use cobbler Check to see all the issues resolved

(3) Restart the cobbler and apply all settings

#service cobblerd Restart

#cobbler Sync

5. Modify the DHCP template, make sure that the DHCP assigned address and cobbler in the same network segment, remember to modify/etc/cobbler/settings parameters Manage_dhcp set to 1, in order to manage DHCP

Vim/etc/cobbler/dhcp.template

# ******************************************************************

# Cobbler Managed dhcpd.conf file

#

# generated from Cobbler dhcp.conf template ($date)

# do not make changes to/etc/dhcpd.conf. Instead, make your changes

# in/etc/cobbler/dhcp.template, as/etc/dhcpd.conf'll be

# overwritten.

#

# ******************************************************************

Ddns-update-style Interim;

Allow booting;

Allow BOOTP;

Ignore client-updates;

Set vendorclass = option Vendor-class-identifier;

Option Pxe-system-type code = unsigned integer 16;

Subnet 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

Option routers 192.168.5.2;

Option Domain-name-servers 192.168.5.2;

Option Subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

Range DYNAMIC-BOOTP 192.168.5.110 192.168.5.220;

Default-lease-time 21600;

Max-lease-time 43200;

Next-server $next _server;

Class "Pxeclients" {

Match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "Pxeclient";

If option Pxe-system-type = 00:02 {

FileName "Ia64/elilo.efi";

} else if option Pxe-system-type = 00:06 {

FileName "Grub/grub-x86.efi";

} else if option Pxe-system-type = 00:07 {

FileName "Grub/grub-x86_64.efi";

} else {

FileName "pxelinux.0";

}

}

}

#for Dhcp_tag in $dhcp _tags.keys ():

# # Group could is subnet if your DHCP tags line up with your subnets

# # or really any valid dhcpd.conf construct ... if you

# # Default DHCP tag in cobbler, the group block can is deleted for a

# # Flat Configuration

# Group for Cobbler DHCP tag: $dhcp _tag

Group {

#for mac in $dhcp _tags[$dhcp _tag].keys ():

#set iface = $dhcp _tags[$dhcp _tag][$mac]

Host $iface. Name {

Hardware Ethernet $mac;

#if $iface. IP_Address:

Fixed-address $iface. ip_address;

#end If

#if $iface. Hostname:

Option Host-name "$iface. hostname";

#end If

#if $iface. Netmask:

Option Subnet-mask $iface. netmask;

#end If

#if $iface. Gateway:

Option routers $iface. Gateway;

#end If

#if $iface. ENABLE_GPXE:

If exists user-class and option User-class = "Gpxe" {

FileName "http:/$cobbler _server/cblr/svc/op/gpxe/system/$iface. Owner";

} else if exists user-class and option User-class = "Ipxe" {

FileName "http:/$cobbler _server/cblr/svc/op/gpxe/system/$iface. Owner";

} else {

FileName "Undionly.kpxe";

}

#else

FileName "$iface. FileName";

#end If

# # Cobbler defaults to $next _server, but some users

# # $iface. System.server for proxied setups

Next-server $next _server;

# # Next-server $iface. Next_server;

}

#end for

}

#end for

Attention!!!!

Vim/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf

Ddns-update-style Interim;

Allow booting;

Allow BOOTP;

Ignore client-updates;

Set vendorclass = option Vendor-class-identifier;

Option Pxe-system-type code = unsigned integer 16;

Subnet 192.168.5.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {

Option routers 192.168.5.2;

Option Domain-name-servers 192.168.5.2;

Option Subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;

Range DYNAMIC-BOOTP 192.168.5.110 192.168.5.220;

Default-lease-time 21600;

Max-lease-time 43200;

Next-server 192.168.5.132;

Class "Pxeclients" {

Match if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "Pxeclient";

If option Pxe-system-type = 00:02 {

FileName "Ia64/elilo.efi";

} else if option Pxe-system-type = 00:06 {

FileName "Grub/grub-x86.efi";

} else if option Pxe-system-type = 00:07 {

FileName "Grub/grub-x86_64.efi";

} else {

FileName "pxelinux.0";

}

}

}

Group {

}

Start DHCP and boot automatically

#service DHCPD Start

#chkconfig DHCPD on

6. Mount the centos6.5 installation disk and create the installation image

#mkdir/mnt/mirrtalk65miso/

#mount-O loop/data/mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64-minimal.iso/mnt/mirrtalk65miso/

#cobbler Import--path=/mnt/mirrtalk65miso/--name=mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64--arch=x86_64

View the imported

#cobbler distro List

#cobbler List

#cobbler Report

7. Modify MIRRTALK65MISO.KS

#vim/VAR/LIB/COBBLER/KICKSTARTS/MIRRTALK65MISO.KS

Auth--useshadow--enablemd5

Bootloader--LOCATION=MBR

Clearpart--all--initlabel

Text

Firewall--disabled

Firstboot--disabled

Keyboard US

Lang en_US. UTF-8

Network--onboot Yes--bootproto DHCP--noipv6

URL--url= $tree

$yum _repo_stanza

Reboot

ROOTPW Mirrtalk

SELinux--disabled

Skipx

TimeZone--UTC Asia/shanghai

Install

ZEROMBR Yes

Part/boot--fstype ext4--size=200--asprimary

Part/--fstype Ext4--size=102400

Part swap--size=16384

Part/data--fstype ext4--size=100--grow

Reboot

%packages

@core

@server-policy

@workstation-policy

%end

8. Modify the Display interface

#vim/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

DEFAULT Menu

PROMPT 0

MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://www.cobblerd.org/

TIMEOUT 200

Totaltimeout 6000

OnTimeOut Local

LABEL mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64

Kernel/images/mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64/vmlinuz

MENU LABEL mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64

Append initrd=/images/mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif lang= kssendmac text ks=http://192.168.5.132/ Cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64

Ipappend 2

MENU End

Restart related services

#/etc/init.d/xinetd restart

#/etc/init.d/cobblerd restart

Specify the KS file for a profile

#cobbler profile Add--name=mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64 kickstart=/var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/mirrtalk65miso.ks

#cobbler profile Edit--name=mirrtalk-6.5-x86_64 KICKSTART=/VAR/LIB/COBBLER/KICKSTARTS/MIRRTALK65MISO.KS

9. Restart

#/etc/init.d/cobblerd restart

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