Red Hat SATELLITE 5.3.0 RELEASE NOTES Guida di Installazione

1Red Hat NetworkSatellite 5.3.0Provisioning HowToRed Hat Network SatellitePartha AjiMichael DeHaanMike McCuneDave ParkerJustin SherrillCopyright © 200

Provisioning HowTo10Figure 2. Raw Kickstart7. TemplatingOne of the more powerful new features in Satellite 5.3.0 is Cheetah based kickstart templating

Variables11httpdmod_sslmod_pythonIf you want to create a web server profile, include the web server snippet in the %package sectionof your Kickstart f

Provisioning HowTo12snippets see the Default Snippet section below. From this page you may also view Snippets createdjust for your organization on the

Snippets13For more information, refer to https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets.7.3.1. Default SnippetsThere are many snippets that s

Provisioning HowTo14This option is already included in the wizard style kickstarts, but you may want to include it in the rawkickstarts you create you

Bare Metal158.1.2.1. Configuring an External DHCP ServerTo configure your DHCP server (assuming you are using ISC DHCPd) to point to the PXE server,si

Provisioning HowTo168.1.2.4. Cobbler System RecordCobbler system records are objects within cobbler that keep track of a system and its associatedkick

Virtualized Guest Provisioning17For example:• If you want to open up a vnc connection so you can monitor the kickstart remotely, include vncvncpasswor

Provisioning HowTo181. Ensure the host system has a Virutalization or Virtualization Platform entitlement.2. Go to the Guest Provisioning page at Syst

Advanced Topics199. Advanced Topics9.1. APIRed Hat Satellite 5.3.0 supports provisioning functionality using the XMLRPC API. The API supportseverythin

Provisioning HowTo25.4. Required Packages ... 76.

Provisioning HowTo20To get a list of profiles run the following command in a terminal on host where the satellite is installed:sudo cobbler profile li

Naming Conventions21sudo cobbler system find --profile="abc" | xargs -n1 --replace cobbler system edit --name={} --profile="def" -

Provisioning HowTo229.5. Other Cobbler settingsThere are only a few settings that should concern Satellite users. pxe_just_once is mentionedearlier in

Troubleshooting23koan --virt --server=satellite.example.org --system=system-nameYou can query cobbler to see what is available to install remotely by

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Provisioning HowTo26 HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 0 [text/plain] Saving to: `ks-rhel-i386-server-5-u3.1' 2009-08-19 15:

Registration Issues27Subject: WEB TRACEBACK from someserver.example.comDate: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:28:01 -0400From: RHN Satellite <[email protected]

Provisioning HowTo28 rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://someserver.example.com/XMLRPC --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT --activation

Revision History29Raw Kickstarts: /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/upload/$profile_name--$org_id.cfgWizard Kickstarts: /var/lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/$profile_

Definitions and Terms3• To use the new provisioning functionality, you need one or more target machines — either physical,bare metal computer system(s

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Provisioning HowTo43. Create a Kickstart Profile4. Provision/reprovision machines5. Kickstart Trees And Software ContentYou must have at least one kic

Manually Installed Kickstart Trees5Note that the sub-directory within the tree may be different depending on your distribution. Oncethis step is compl

Provisioning HowTo6Figure 1. Creating Kickstart Distribution5.3. Required distribution filesSatellite expects certain files to exist in specified loca

Required Packages75.4. Required PackagesIf using a custom distribution be sure that the packages koan and spacewalk-koan are availablewithin a child c

Provisioning HowTo86.2. Creating Kickstart ProfilesRHN Satellite supports two distinct methods of kickstart profile creation: Wizard-based and Raw.Wiz

Creating Kickstart Profiles9Since the raw kickstart is completely written by the user, the Satellite server does not handle using thespecified distro