Hi, I'm stuck with a little problem I hope someone here can help me to solve
We have a multi-site environment. A central Cobbler server, used accross sites. DHCP on each site is not managed by us (though we can PXE boot all the machines and have them contact our central Cobbler server) What I want is to automatically set a "location" variable, based on the machine's IP address (as seen by Cobbler) I want to use profile based installs only. I don't want to declare all my systems wit "cobbler system add ..." commands Besides being an extra burden, it would also require to assign a profile to the system. I don't want that, and want the client to select the OS it wants from the boot menu Currently I generate a profile per site and per distribution, like siteA-rh5 siteB-rh5 siteA-rh6 siteB-rh6 ... and I parse the $profile_name to get the location What I'd like instead is even more generic profiles, distribution-specific only, like rh5 rh6 and have the location variable set to siteA or siteB accordingly, and use that variable in my kickstart, mostly for url --url http://repo-${location}/path/to/distro to use the local mirror copies of the repositories, as well as a couple of other things, like setting the timezone To do that I need the client IP address. The problem I'm facing is that server_name or ip_address are blank, when retrieved with getvar My understanding is that it's because I don't have a system created for each machine with "cobbler add system .." Cobbler necessarilly sees the IP address of the machine it's deploying at some point. I see it in my apache log files when the client makes a GET request to get its kickstart file, but I can't use it from there. I thought it's maybe possible to plug this logic in a pre install trigger, but haven't figured out how to get the IP this way, and how to pass it along) Is there a way to get the IP address of the client in a profile based install, and to use it in the templating engine? Thanks
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