Cobbler Installation on Centos/Redhat 7¶

Cobbler version:
	2.6.0
Linux version:	Centos/Redhat 7.0

Note

Official installation doc: http://cobbler.github.io/manuals/2.6.0/2/2/2_-_RHEL_and_CentOS.html

Steps¶

Set SELinux to “permissive” mode (Doc)

EPEL repo configuration:

sudo rpm -Uvh http://mir01.syntis.net/epel//7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm

Installation

yum install pykickstart cobbler cobbler-web

Activate TFTP

vim /etc/xinetd.d/tftp
#   disable = yes                    <- Change this line to "no"
chkconfig tftp on

Note

Configuration may be different according to Linux breed

Configure the firewall:

# For TFTP:
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p tcp --dport 69 -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p udp --dport 69 -j ACCEPT
# For HTTP
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
# For Cobbler XML-RPC
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p tcp --dport 25150 -j ACCEPT
firewall-cmd --direct --permanent --add-rule ipv4 filter INPUT 0 -p tcp --dport 25151 -j ACCEPT

firewall-cmd --reload

Note

If you want to check these rules are correctly saved:

firewall-cmd --permanent --direct --get-rules ipv4 filter INPUT

(optional) If you want to use command “cobbler replicate”, you have to configure rsync

$ vi /etc/xinetd.d/rsync

# default: off
# description: The rsync server is a good addition to an ftp server, as it \
#      allows crc checksumming etc.
service rsync
{
   disable= no # change
   flags= IPv6
   socket_type= stream
   wait= no
   user= root
   server= /usr/bin/rsync
   server_args= --daemon
   log_on_failure+= USERID
}

$ chkconfig rsync on

Note

Help here: http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=CentOS_6&p=rsync

Cobbler configuration:

vim /etc/cobbler/settings

Change following lines:

# manage_rsync: 0   <---- set to 1 to enable Cobbler's RSYNC management features.
# server: 127.0.0.1 <---- set to the real Cobbler ip address.
# anamon_enabled: 0 <---- set to 1 to enable Anamon log.
# next_server: 127.0.0.1 <---- set to the real Cobbler ip address.

Start Cobbler service:

service cobblerd start
chkconfig cobblerd on

service httpd start
chkconfig httpd on

Download loaders:
```
cobbler get-loaders
```

(optional) If you want to change the WEB interface password (cobbler/cobbler):

openssl passwd -1 -salt 'random-phrase-here' 'your-password-here'

And put the key in /etc/cobbler/settings:

# default_password_crypted: "$1$company$prqgnhJ6izx5.S9FVItCB/"

Then change the web user interface setting:

htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" cobbler

Sync all:
```
cobbler sync
```

Note

You can check your installation with:

cobbler check