I ended up making my own solution... although its not very secure you could probably do something like this within the kickstart through snippets.

1. install wget

2. download epel

3. install koan and other required tools

4. setup bmc and system using ipmitools and system acquired variables

5. register with cobbler using acquired variables

6. set the register the bmc settings with cobbler

This is basically a brief outline of how I have my setup to complete automated installs... its a complete hack and not very clean but it gets the job done until I get around to cleaning it up and doing it through proper programming.

for the record, I couldn't get the cobbler_register script to work either... although I didn't try for too long.

Scott

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マッタン・スコット　【Mattan, Scott】
クラウド・ソリューション・エンジニア

ニスコム株式会社

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On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 6:15 AM, Waldron, Michael H <mwaldron@email.unc.edu> wrote:

I am new to Cobbler, and am wondering if anyone uses it to provision a large cluster? Rather than having to collect a lot of MAC addresses and manually create all the system records, I'd like to be able to have systems register themselves when they are first booted.

I've seen the snippet 'cobbler_register' which seems intended for this purpose, but I can't figure out how to use it. Is anyone doing this? If so can you provide specifics on how to do so?

Mike Waldron

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