diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | cobbler.pod | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/cobbler.pod b/cobbler.pod index cd79458..af2bc13 100644 --- a/cobbler.pod +++ b/cobbler.pod @@ -465,6 +465,22 @@ goes is left up to the systems administrator. Repositories that do not need to be updated can be modifed by tweaking the values in /var/lib/cobbler/repos. +=head2 KICKSTART TRACKING + +Cobbler knows how to keep track of the status of kickstarting machines. + +B<cobbler status> + +Using the status command will show when cobbler thinks a machine started kickstarting and when it last requested a file. +This is a good way to track machines that may have gone interactive during kickstarts. Cobbler will also make a special +request in the post section of the kickstart to signal when a machine is finished kickstarting. + +To use this feature, the kickstart tree files need to be served via a http://server/cobbler_track/... URL, which happens +automatically when using the "cobbler import" command to pull in a kickstart tree from an rsync mirror. + +If kickstart trees are somewhere else, one can still benefit from the kickstart tracking feature by adding a symlink to +/var/www/cobbler/localmirror/distroname will allow the kickstarts to be served through the tracking URL mentioned above. Be sure to use the http://server/cobbler_track/ URL to point to the kickstart tree for each distro you want to track. + =head2 TWEAKING Enterprising users can edit the files in /var/lib/cobbler directly versus using the command line. The repair |