Cobbler fully automated CentOS Installation

Environment:
OEL6.3 x64 (CentOS6.3 x64)
No other DHCP servers in the Network Environment

I. cobbler installation preparation
1. Disable iptables and selinux
# Chkconfig iptables off
# Vi/etc/selinux/config
SELINUX = disabled

1 # view after sestatus is restarted

2. Install the source preparation and cobbler Software
Description: basic source and epel source.
Rpm-ivh http://download.Fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Yum-y install cobbler-web httpd rsync tftp-server xinetd dhcp python-ctypes debmirror pykickstart fence-agents

2. Configure tftp-server and rsync
Enable the tftp and rsync services
Sed-I '/disable/c disable = no'/etc/xinetd. d/tftp
Sed-I-e's/= yes/= no/G'/etc/xinetd. d/rsync

3. Configure cobbler
1. Configure the httpd configuration file
# Vi/etc/httpd/conf/httpd. conf
ServerName 127.0.0.1: 80

2. Configure the master configuration file of cobbler
Sed-I's/next_server: 127.0.0.1/next_server: 192.168.1.10/G'/etc/cobbler/settings
Sed-I's/server: 127.0.0.1/server: 192.168.1.10/G'/etc/cobbler/settings
Sed-I's/manage_dhcp: 0/manage_dhcp: 1/G'/etc/cobbler/settings
Sed-I's/manage_rsync: 0/manage_rsync: 1/G'/etc/cobbler/settings

 
3. Configure the cobbler web login authentication configuration file
(1) modify the authentication File
Sed-I's/module = authn_denyall/module = authn_configfile/G'/etc/cobbler/modules. conf

(2) set the user name and password:
 
Htdigest/etc/cobbler/users. digest "Cobbler" cobbler

4. Generate the Cobbler installation system root initial password
(1) generate the key and configure the default key here, and reference the ks File
# Openssl passwd-1-salt 'random-phrase-here '123'
$1 $ random-p $ WbZ3JxhRzCS/1Ne4S9g4Z.

(2) Add the preceding encrypted string to the cobbler configuration file.
# Vi/etc/cobbler/settings
# Modify the configuration as follows:
Default_password_crypted: "$1 $ random-p $ WbZ3JxhRzCS/1Ne4S9g4Z ."

4. Configure DHCP and start cobbler services
1. Configure the dhcp configuration file
# Mv/etc/cobbler/dhcp. template/etc/cobbler/dhcp. template. bak
# Vi/etc/cobbler/dhcp. template
Ddns-update-style interim;
Allow booting;
Allow bootp;
Ignore client-updates;
Set vendorclass = option vendor-class-identifier;
Subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
Option routers 192.168.1.1;
Option domain-name-servers 202.100.192.68;
Option subnet-mask limit 255.0;
Range dynamic-bootp 192.168.1.120 192.168.1.254;
Filename "/pxelinux.0 ";
Default-lease-time 21600;
Max-lease-time 43200;
Next-server $ next_server;
}

2. Services to be started
Chkconfig httpd on
Chkconfig xinetd on
Chkconfig dhcpd on
Chkconfig cobblerd on
Service httpd start
Service xinetd start
Service dhcpd start
Service cobblerd start

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