How Cobbler Triggers Works

[slgray]

Hi, I am new to cobbler and I want to use triggers use to do some post
install tasks, suck as create a system profile when the system finish the
first boot from cobbler .
I have read the docs at
http://cobbler.github.io/manuals/2.6.0/4/4/1_-_Triggers.html. But still do
not know how to call the triggers, which url I should  send request to.

Hope somebody can provide detail docs for how triggers work, Thanks.

[Thomas Hager]

Hi,

Trigger requests are sent to URLs like:

http://<cobbler_host>/cblr/svc/op/trig/...

e.g.:

http://cobbler.local.domain/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/server1

Check for example the kickstart_done snippet.

Hth,
Tom.

On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 01:27 +0800, Libin Chen wrote:
> Hi, I am new to cobbler and I want to use triggers use to do some
> post install tasks, suck as create a system profile when the system
> finish the first boot from cobbler . 
> I have read the docs at http://cobbler.github.io/manuals/2.6.0/4/4/1_
> -_Triggers.html. But still do not know how to call the triggers,
> which url I should  send request to.
>
> Hope somebody can provide detail docs for how triggers work, Thanks.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Slgray
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[slgray]

Thanks, Thomas, I got it.

I think I should go through all the snippets and scripts to get started.
If anyone have better idea to get started with cobbler.

Slgray.

2016-05-27 18:21 GMT+08:00 Thomas Hager :
> Hi,
>
> Trigger requests are sent to URLs like:
>
> http://<cobbler_host>/cblr/svc/op/trig/...
>
> e.g.:
>
> http://cobbler.local.domain/cblr/svc/op/trig/mode/post/system/server1
>
> Check for example the kickstart_done snippet.
>
> Hth,
> Tom.
>
> On Fri, 2016-05-27 at 01:27 +0800, Libin Chen wrote:
> > Hi, I am new to cobbler and I want to use triggers use to do some
> > post install tasks, suck as create a system profile when the system
> > finish the first boot from cobbler .
> > I have read the docs at http://cobbler.github.io/manuals/2.6.0/4/4/1_
> > -_Triggers.html. But still do not know how to call the triggers,
> > which url I should  send request to.
> > Hope somebody can provide detail docs for how triggers work, Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Slgray
> > _______________________________________________
> > cobbler mailing list
> > [e-mail]
> > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]
> > .org
>
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[Greg Chavez]

I recommend using Cobbler to do the following for you:

1) Manage your OS distributions
2) Deploy your systems (PXE, koan virtual boots)
3) Provide basic filesystem partitioning (the snippets are very useful for
this)
4) Kickoff CM: either Chef, Puppet, ansible-pull, or other. This is what
Cobbler-Web's Management Tab is for :)

If you have not used CM before, I strong recommend looking into Ansible as
it has the least challenging learning curve:
http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_getting_started.html

Also, as it's been mentioned before on this list and elsewhere, the same
guy who started the Cobbler project is the guy who started Ansible.

Good luck.