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Advanced Topics

9. Advanced Topics

9.1. API

Red Hat Satellite 5.3.0 supports provisioning functionality using the XMLRPC API. The API supports

everything from scheduling re-provisioning to modifying kickstart trees or profile details.

These methods facilitate kickstart profile and tree maintenance:

XMLRPC Namespace Usage

kickstart create, import, and delete kickstart profiles. Also to list available

kickstart trees and profiles.

kickstart.tree create, rename, update and delete kickstart trees.

kickstart.filepreservation list, create, delete file preservation lists that can be associated

to a kickstart profile. Note: once a file preservation list has been

created, it can be associated to a kickstart profile by calling

kickstart.profile.system.add_file_preservations.

kickstart.keys list, create, delete cryptography keys (GPG/SSL) that can be

associated to different kickstart profiles. Note: once a cryptography

key has been created, it can be associated to a kickstart profile by

calling the kickstart.profile.system.add_keys api method.

kickstart.profile manipulate ip ranges, change the kickstart tree and the child

channels channel, download kickstart file associated to a profile,

manipulate advanced options, manipulate custom options, and add

pre/post scripts associated to a kickstart profile.

kickstart.profile.keys list, add (associate) and remove (disassociate) activation keys

associated to a kickstart profile.

kickstart.profile.software manipulate the list of packages associated to a kickstart profile.

kickstart.profile.system manage file preservations, manage cryptography keys, enable/

disable config management and remote commands, setup partitioning

schemes, setup locale information associated to a given kickstart

profile.

Table 2. XMLRPC Methods

Additionally, the following API methods calls may be used to re-provision host and schedule guest

installs.

• system.provision_system

• system.provision_virtual_guest

For more information on these API calls and others refer to the api documentation available on

https://sat FQDN/rhn/rpc/api replacing sat FQDN with your Satellite server.

9.2. Cobbler On the Command Line

Satellite uses Cobbler to facilitate provisioning. When the kickstart profiles, trees (distributions) and

systems for provisioning are updated in satellite, they are synced to the Cobbler instance on the

satellite host. This means that you can use cobbler directly to manage their provisioning if you prefer.

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