8.1.1. cobbler.actions package

8.1.1.1. Subpackages

8.1.1.1.1. cobbler.actions.buildiso package

8.1.1.2. Submodules

8.1.1.3. cobbler.actions.acl module

Configures acls for various users/groups so they can access the Cobbler command line as non-root. Now that CLI is largely remoted (XMLRPC) this is largely just useful for not having to log in (access to shared-secret) file but also grants access to hand-edit various cobbler_collections files and other useful things.

class cobbler.actions.acl.AclConfig(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

TODO

modacl(isadd: bool, isuser: bool, who: str) → None[source]

Modify the acls for Cobbler on the filesystem.

Parameters

isadd – If true then the who will be added. If false then who will be removed.
isuser – If true then the who may be a user. If false then who may be a group.
who – The user or group to be added or removed.

run(adduser: Optional[str] = None, addgroup: Optional[str] = None, removeuser: Optional[str] = None, removegroup: Optional[str] = None) → None[source]

Automate setfacl commands. Only one of the four may be specified but one option also must be specified.

Parameters

adduser – Add a user to be able to manage Cobbler.
addgroup – Add a group to be able to manage Cobbler.
removeuser – Remove a user to be able to manage Cobbler.
removegroup – Remove a group to be able to manage Cobbler.

Raises

CX – Raised in case not enough arguments are specified.

8.1.1.4. cobbler.actions.check module

Cobbler Trigger Module that checks against a list of hardcoded potential common errors in a Cobbler installation.

class cobbler.actions.check.CobblerCheck(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

Validates whether the system is reasonably well configured for serving up content. This is the code behind ‘cobbler check’.

static check_bind_bin(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if bind is installed.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

static check_bootloaders(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if network bootloaders are installed

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_ctftpd_dir(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if cobbler.conf’s tftpboot directory exists.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_debmirror(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if debmirror is available and the config file for it exists. If the distro family is suse then this will pass without checking.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

static check_dhcpd_bin(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if dhcpd is installed.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_dhcpd_conf(status: List[str]) → None[source]

NOTE: this code only applies if Cobbler is NOT set to generate a dhcp.conf file.

Check that dhcpd appears to be configured for pxe booting. We can’t assure file correctness. Since a Cobbler user might have dhcp on another server, it’s okay if it’s not there and/or not configured correctly according to automated scans.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

static check_dnsmasq_bin(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if dnsmasq is installed.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

static check_for_cman(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if the fence agents are available. This is done through checking if the binary fence_ilo is present in /sbin or /usr/sbin.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems. The status list with possible problems.

check_for_default_password(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if the default password of Cobbler was changed.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_for_ksvalidator(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if the ksvalidator is present in /usr/bin.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems. The status list with possible problems.

check_for_unreferenced_repos(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if there are repositories which are not used and thus could be removed.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_for_unsynced_repos(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if there are unsynchronized repositories which need an update.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

static check_for_wget_curl(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check to make sure wget or curl is installed

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_iptables(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if iptables is running. If yes print the needed ports. This is unavailable on Debian, SUSE and CentOS7 as a service. However this only indicates that the way of persisting the iptable rules are persisted via other means.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_name(status: List[str]) → None[source]

If the server name in the config file is still set to localhost automatic installations run from koan will not have proper kernel line parameters.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_rsync_conf(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check that rsync is enabled to autostart.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_selinux(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Suggests various SELinux rules changes to run Cobbler happily with SELinux in enforcing mode.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_service(status: List[str], which: str, notes: str = '') → None[source]

Check if the service command is available or the old init.d system has to be used.

Parameters

status – The status list with possible problems.
which – The service to check for.
notes – A manual not to attach.

check_tftpd_dir(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if cobbler.conf’s tftpboot directory exists

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

check_yum(status: List[str]) → None[source]

Check if the yum-stack is available. On Debian based distros this will always return without checking.

Parameters: status – The status list with possible problems.

run() → List[str][source]

The CLI usage is “cobbler check” before “cobbler sync”.

Returns: None if there are no errors, otherwise returns a list of things to correct prior to running application ‘for real’.

8.1.1.5. cobbler.actions.hardlink module

Hard links Cobbler content together to save space.

class cobbler.actions.hardlink.HardLinker(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

TODO

run() → int[source]: Simply hardlinks directories that are Cobbler managed.

8.1.1.6. cobbler.actions.importer module

This module contains the logic that kicks of the cobbler import process. This is extracted logic from api.py that is essentially calling modules/mangers/import_signatures.py with some preparatory code.

class cobbler.actions.importer.Importer(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

Wrapper class to adhere to the style of all other actions.

run(mirror_url: str, mirror_name: str, network_root: Optional[str] = None, autoinstall_file: Optional[str] = None, rsync_flags: Optional[str] = None, arch: Optional[str] = None, breed: Optional[str] = None, os_version: Optional[str] = None) → bool[source]

Automatically import a directory tree full of distribution files.

Parameters

mirror_url – Can be a string that represents a path, a user@host syntax for SSH, or an rsync:// address. If mirror_url is a filesystem path and mirroring is not desired, set network_root to something like “nfs://path/to/mirror_url/root”
mirror_name – The name of the mirror.
network_root – the remote path (nfs/http/ftp) for the distro files
autoinstall_file – user-specified response file, which will override the default
rsync_flags – Additional flags that will be passed to the rsync call that will sync everything to the Cobbler webroot.
arch – user-specified architecture
breed – user-specified breed
os_version – user-specified OS version

8.1.1.7. cobbler.actions.log module

Cobbler Trigger Module that managed the logs associated with a Cobbler system.

class cobbler.actions.log.LogTool(system: System, api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

Helpers for dealing with System logs, anamon, etc..

clear() → None[source]: Clears the system logs

8.1.1.8. cobbler.actions.mkloaders module

Cobbler action to create bootable Grub2 images.

This action calls grub2-mkimage for all bootloader formats configured in Cobbler’s settings. See man(1) grub2-mkimage for available formats.

class cobbler.actions.mkloaders.MkLoaders(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

Action to create bootloader images.

create_directories() → None[source]: Create the required directories so that this succeeds. If existing, do nothing. This should create the tree for all supported bootloaders, regardless of the capabilities to symlink/install/build them.

make_grub() → None[source]: Create symlink of the GRUB 2 bootloader in case it is available on the system. Additionally build the loaders for other architectures if the modules to do so are available.

make_ipxe() → None[source]: Create symlink of the iPXE bootloader in case it is available on the system.

make_shim() → None[source]: Create symlink of the shim bootloader in case it is available on the system.

make_syslinux() → None[source]: Create symlink of the important syslinux bootloader files in case they are available on the system.

run() → None[source]: Run GrubImages action. If the files or executables for the bootloader is not available we bail out and skip the creation after it is logged that this is not available.

cobbler.actions.mkloaders.get_syslinux_version() → int[source]

This calls syslinux and asks for the version number.

Returns: The major syslinux release number.
Raises: subprocess.CalledProcessError – Error raised by subprocess.run in case syslinux does not return zero.

cobbler.actions.mkloaders.mkimage(image_format: str, image_filename: Path, modules: List[str]) → None[source]

Create a bootable image of GRUB using grub2-mkimage.

Parameters

image_format – Format of the image that is being created. See man(1) grub2-mkimage for a list of supported formats.
image_filename – Location of the image that is being created.
modules – List of GRUB modules to include into the image

Raises

subprocess.CalledProcessError – Error raised by subprocess.run.

cobbler.actions.mkloaders.symlink(target: Path, link: Path, skip_existing: bool = False) → None[source]

Create a symlink LINK pointing to TARGET.

Parameters

target – File/directory that the link will point to. The file/directory must exist.
link – Filename for the link.
skip_existing – Controls if existing links are skipped, defaults to False.

Raises

FileNotFoundError – target is not an existing file.
FileExistsError – skip_existing is False and link already exists.

8.1.1.9. cobbler.actions.replicate module

Replicate from a Cobbler master.

class cobbler.actions.replicate.Replicate(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

This class contains the magic to replicate a Cobbler instance to another Cobbler instance.

add_objects_not_on_local(obj_type: str) → None[source]

Add objects locally which are not present on the slave but on the master.

Parameters: obj_type –

generate_include_map() → None[source]: Method that generates the information that is required to perform the replicate option.

link_distros() → None[source]: Link a distro from its location into the web directory to make it available for usage.

remove_objects_not_on_master(obj_type: str) → None[source]

Remove objects on this slave which are not on the master.

Parameters: obj_type – The type of object which should be synchronized.

replace_objects_newer_on_remote(obj_type: str) → None[source]

Replace objects which are newer on the local slave then on the remote slave

Parameters: obj_type – The type of object to synchronize.

replicate_data() → None[source]: Replicate the local and remote data to each another.

rsync_it(from_path: str, to_path: str, object_type: Optional[str] = None) → None[source]

Rsync from a source to a destination with the rsync options Cobbler was configured with.

Parameters

from_path – The source to rsync from.
to_path – The destination to rsync to.
object_type – If set to “repo” this will take the repo rsync options instead of the global ones.

run(cobbler_master: Optional[str] = None, port: str = '80', distro_patterns: Optional[str] = None, profile_patterns: Optional[str] = None, system_patterns: Optional[str] = None, repo_patterns: Optional[str] = None, image_patterns: Optional[str] = None, mgmtclass_patterns: Optional[str] = None, package_patterns: Optional[str] = None, file_patterns: Optional[str] = None, prune: bool = False, omit_data: bool = False, sync_all: bool = False, use_ssl: bool = False) → None[source]

Get remote profiles and distros and sync them locally

Parameters

cobbler_master – The remote url of the master server.
port – The remote port of the master server.
distro_patterns – The pattern of distros to sync.
profile_patterns – The pattern of profiles to sync.
system_patterns – The pattern of systems to sync.
repo_patterns – The pattern of repositories to sync.
image_patterns – The pattern of images to sync.
mgmtclass_patterns – The pattern of management classes to sync.
package_patterns – The pattern of packages to sync.
file_patterns – The pattern of files to sync.
prune – If the local server should be pruned before coping stuff.
omit_data – If the data behind images etc should be omitted or not.
sync_all – If everything should be synced (then the patterns are useless) or not.
use_ssl – If HTTPS or HTTP should be used.

8.1.1.10. cobbler.actions.report module

Report from a Cobbler master. FIXME: reinstante functionality for 2.0

class cobbler.actions.report.Report(api: CobblerAPI)[source]

Bases: object

TODO

fielder(structure: Dict[str, Any], fields_list: List[str]) → Dict[str, str][source]

Return data from a subset of fields of some item

Parameters

structure – The item structure to report.
fields_list – The list of fields which should be returned.

Returns

The same item with only the given subset of information.

print_formatted_data(data: List[Dict[str, str]], order: List[str], report_type: str, noheaders: bool) → None[source]

Used for picking the correct format to output data as

Parameters

data – The list of iteratable items for table output.
order – The list of fields which are available in the table file.
noheaders – Whether headers are printed to the output or not.
report_type – The type of report which should be used.

reporting_csv(info: List[Dict[str, str]], order: List[Any], noheaders: bool) → str[source]

Formats data on ‘info’ for csv output

Parameters

info – The list of iteratable items for csv output.
order – The list of fields which are available in the csv file.
noheaders – Whether headers are printed to the output or not.

Returns

The string with the csv.

reporting_doku(info: List[Dict[str, str]], order: List[Any], noheaders: bool) → str[source]

Formats data on ‘info’ for doku wiki table output

Parameters

info – The list of iteratable items for table output.
order – The list of fields which are available in the table file.
noheaders – Whether headers are printed to the output or not.

Returns

The string with the generated table.

static reporting_list_names2(collection: Collection[ITEM], name: str) → None[source]

Prints a specific object in a collection.

Parameters

collection – The collections object to print a collection from.
name – The name of the collection to print.

reporting_mediawiki(info: List[Dict[str, str]], order: List[Any], noheaders: bool) → str[source]

Formats data on ‘info’ for mediawiki table output

Parameters

info – The list of iteratable items for table output.
order – The list of fields which are available in the table file.
noheaders – Whether headers are printed to the output or not.

Returns

The string with the generated table.

reporting_print_all_fields(collection: Collection[ITEM], report_name: str, report_type: str, report_noheaders: bool) → None[source]

Prints all fields in a collection as a table given the report type

Parameters

collection – The collection to report.
report_name – The name of the report.
report_type – The type of report to give.
report_noheaders – Report without the headers. (May be useful for machine parsing)

Returns

A report with all fields included pretty printed or machine readable.

static reporting_print_sorted(collection: Collection[ITEM]) → None[source]

Prints all objects in a collection sorted by name

Parameters: collection – The collection to print.

reporting_print_x_fields(collection: Collection[ITEM], report_name: str, report_type: str, report_fields: str, report_noheaders: bool) → None[source]

Prints specific fields in a collection as a table given the report type

Parameters

collection – The collection to report.
report_name – The name of the report.
report_type – The type of report to give.
report_fields – The fields which should be included in the report.
report_noheaders – Report without the headers. (May be useful for machine parsing)

reporting_trac(info: List[Dict[str, str]], order: List[Any], noheaders: bool) → str[source]

Formats data on ‘info’ for trac wiki table output

Parameters

info – The list of iteratable items for table output.
order – The list of fields which are available in the table file.
noheaders – Whether headers are printed to the output or not.

Returns

The string with the generated table.

run(report_what: str = '', report_name: str = '', report_type: str = '', report_fields: str = '', report_noheaders: bool = False) → None[source]

Get remote profiles and distros and sync them locally

Handles original report output
Handles all fields of report outputs as table given a format
Handles specific fields of report outputs as table given a format

Parameters

report_what – What should be reported. May be “all”.
report_name – The name of the report.
report_type – The type of report to give.
report_fields – The fields which should be included in the report.
report_noheaders – Report without the headers. (May be useful for machine parsing)

8.1.1.11. cobbler.actions.reposync module

Builds out and synchronizes yum repo mirrors. Initial support for rsync, perhaps reposync coming later.

class cobbler.actions.reposync.RepoSync(api: CobblerAPI, tries: int = 1, nofail: bool = False)[source]

Bases: object

Handles conversion of internal state to the tftpboot tree layout.

apt_sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Handle copying of http:// and ftp:// debian repos.

Parameters: repo – The apt repository to sync.

create_local_file(dest_path: str, repo: Repo, output: bool = True) → str[source]

Creates Yum config files for use by reposync

Two uses: (A) output=True, Create local files that can be used with yum on provisioned clients to make use of this mirror. (B) output=False, Create a temporary file for yum to feed into yum for mirroring

Parameters

dest_path – The destination path to create the file at.
repo – The repository object to create a file for.
output – See described above.

Returns

The name of the file which was written.

createrepo_walker(repo: Repo, dirname: str, fnames: Any) → None[source]

Used to run createrepo on a copied Yum mirror.

Parameters

repo – The repository object to run for.
dirname – The directory to run in.
fnames – Not known what this is for.

gen_urlgrab_ssl_opts(yumopts: Dict[str, Any]) → Tuple[Optional[Tuple[Any, ...]], bool][source]

This function translates yum repository options into the appropriate options for python-requests

Parameters: yumopts – The options to convert.
Returns: A tuple with the cert and a boolean if it should be verified or not.

librepo_getinfo(dirname: str) → Dict[Any, Any][source]

Used to get records from a repomd.xml file of downloaded rpmmd repository.

Parameters: dirname – The local path of rpmmd repository.
Returns: The dict representing records from a repomd.xml file of rpmmd repository.

static reposync_cmd() → List[str][source]

Determine reposync command

Returns: The path to the reposync command. If dnf exists it is used instead of reposync.

rhn_sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Handle mirroring of RHN repos.

Parameters: repo – The repo object to synchronize.

rsync_sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Handle copying of rsync:// and rsync-over-ssh repos.

Parameters: repo – The repo to sync via rsync.

run(name: Optional[str] = None, verbose: bool = True) → None[source]

Syncs the current repo configuration file with the filesystem.

Parameters

name – The name of the repository to synchronize.
verbose – If the action should be logged verbose or not.

sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Conditionally sync a repo, based on type.

Parameters: repo – The repo to sync.

update_permissions(repo_path: str) → None[source]

Verifies that permissions and contexts after an rsync are as expected. Sending proper rsync flags should prevent the need for this, though this is largely a safeguard.

Parameters: repo_path – The path to update the permissions of.

wget_sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Handle mirroring of directories using wget

Parameters: repo – The repo object to sync via wget.

yum_sync(repo: Repo) → None[source]

Handle copying of http:// and ftp:// yum repos.

Parameters: repo – The yum reporitory to sync.

cobbler.actions.reposync.repo_walker(top: str, func: Callable[[Any, str, List[str]], None], arg: Any) → None[source]

Directory tree walk with callback function.

For each directory in the directory tree rooted at top (including top itself, but excluding ‘.’ and ‘..’), call func(arg, dirname, fnames). dirname is the name of the directory, and fnames a list of the names of the files and subdirectories in dirname (excluding ‘.’ and ‘..’). func may modify the fnames list in-place (e.g. via del or slice assignment), and walk will only recurse into the subdirectories whose names remain in fnames; this can be used to implement a filter, or to impose a specific order of visiting. No semantics are defined for, or required of, arg, beyond that arg is always passed to func. It can be used, e.g., to pass a filename pattern, or a mutable object designed to accumulate statistics. Passing None for arg is common.

Parameters

top – The directory that should be taken as root. The root dir will also be included in the processing.
func – The function that should be executed.
arg – The arguments for that function.

8.1.1.12. cobbler.actions.status module

Reports on automatic installation activity by examining the logs in /var/log/cobbler.

class cobbler.actions.status.CobblerStatusReport(api: CobblerAPI, mode: str)[source]

Bases: object

TODO

catalog(profile_or_system: str, name: str, ip_address: str, start_or_stop: str, timestamp: float) → None[source]

Add a system to cobbler status.

Parameters

profile_or_system – This can be system or profile.
name – The name of the object.
ip_address – The ip of the system to watch.
start_or_stop – This parameter may be start or stop
timestamp – Timestamp as returned by time.time()

static collect_logfiles() → List[str][source]

Collects all installation logfiles from /var/log/cobbler/. This will also collect gzipped logfiles.

Returns: List of absolute paths that are matching the filepattern install.log or install.log.x, where x is a number equal or greater than zero.

get_printable_results() → str[source]

Convert the status of Cobbler from a machine-readable form to human-readable.

Returns: A nice formatted representation of the results of cobbler status.

process_results() → Dict[Any, Any][source]

Look through all systems which were collected and update the status.

Returns: Return ip_data of the object.

run() → Union[Dict[Any, Any], str][source]: Calculate and print a automatic installation status report.

scan_logfiles() → None[source]: Scan the installation log-files - starting with the oldest file.

class cobbler.actions.status.InstallStatus[source]

Bases: object

Helper class that represents the current state of the installation of a system or profile.

8.1.1.13. cobbler.actions.sync module

Builds out filesystem trees/data based on the object tree. This is the code behind ‘cobbler sync’.

class cobbler.actions.sync.CobblerSync(api: CobblerAPI, verbose: bool = True, dhcp: Optional[DhcpManagerModule] = None, dns: Optional[DnsManagerModule] = None, tftpd: Optional[TftpManagerModule] = None)[source]

Bases: object

Handles conversion of internal state to the tftpboot tree layout

add_single_distro(distro_obj: Distro) → None[source]

Sync adding a single distro.

Parameters: name – The name of the distribution.

add_single_image(image_obj: Image) → None[source]

Sync adding a single image.

Parameters: name – The name of the image.

add_single_profile(profile: Profile, rebuild_menu: bool = True) → Optional[bool][source]

Sync adding a single profile.

Parameters

name – The name of the profile.
rebuild_menu – Whether to rebuild the grub/… menu or not.

Returns

True if this succeeded.

add_single_system(system_obj: System) → None[source]

Sync adding a single system.

Parameters: name – The name of the system.

clean_link_cache()[source]: All files which are linked into the cache will be deleted so the cache can be rebuild.

clean_trees()[source]

Delete any previously built pxelinux.cfg tree and virt tree info and then create directories.

Note: for SELinux reasons, some information goes in /tftpboot, some in /var/www/cobbler and some must be duplicated in both. This is because PXE needs tftp, and automatic installation and Virt operations need http. Only the kernel and initrd images are duplicated, which is unfortunate, though SELinux won’t let me give them two contexts, so symlinks are not a solution. Otherwise duplication is minimal.

remove_single_distro(distro_obj: Distro) → None[source]

Sync removing a single distro.

Parameters: name – The name of the distribution.

remove_single_image(image_obj: Image) → None[source]

Sync removing a single image.

Parameters: image_obj – The name of the image.

remove_single_menu(rebuild_menu: bool = True) → None[source]

Sync removing a single menu.

Parameters: rebuild_menu – Whether to rebuild the grub/… menu or not.

remove_single_profile(profile_obj: Profile, rebuild_menu: bool = True) → None[source]

Sync removing a single profile.

Parameters

name – The name of the profile.
rebuild_menu – Whether to rebuild the grub/… menu or not.

remove_single_system(system_obj: System) → None[source]

Sync removing a single system.

Parameters: name – The name of the system.

rsync_gen() → None[source]

Generate rsync modules of all repositories and distributions

Raises: OSError –

run() → None[source]: Syncs the current configuration file with the config tree. Using the Check().run_ functions previously is recommended

run_sync_systems(systems: List[str])[source]: Syncs the specific systems with the config tree.

sync_dhcp()[source]: This calls write_dhcp and restarts the DHCP server.

update_system_netboot_status(name: str) → None[source]

Update the netboot status of a system.

Parameters: name – The name of the system.

write_dhcp()[source]: Write all files which are associated to DHCP.

8.1.1.14. Module contents

The action module is responsible for containing one Python module for each action which Cobbler offers. The code should never be dependent on another module or on other parts. An action should request the exact data it requires and nothing more.