Cobbler（补鞋匠）集成了PXE、DHCP、DNS、Kickstart服务管理和yum仓库管理工具，相对之前的 Kickstart 更加快捷、方便的批量布署Red Hat、CentOS类系统
测试环境：
VMware® Workstation : 9.0.0 build-812388
操作系统 : CentOS 5.6 32位
一.安装epel源
[root@server1 ~]# wget Fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
warning: epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:epel-release ########################################### [100%]
[root@server1 ~]#
安装epel源的好处
就是epel这个项目是由fedora维护的，在维护的这个源中包含许多软件，包括ntop，nagios之类的，也就是说，你安装了epel源就可以直接用yum install ntop来安装了，不过这个应该针对红帽企业版Linux(RHEL)及其衍生发行版(比如CentOS、Scientific Linux)系统，Ubuntu这类的应该不行。
二.安装与配置cobbler
1.安装cobbler和一些必须的包，并设置开机自动启动
[root@server1 ~]# yum -y install cobbler httpd rsync tftp-server xinetd dhcp Python-ctypes pykickstart cman
...
cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: python-netaddr is needed by package cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: mod_wsgi is needed by package cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: python-netaddr is needed by package cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
Error: Missing Dependency: mod_wsgi is needed by package cobbler-2.2.2-1.el5.rf.noarch (rpmforge)
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
package-cleanup --dupes
rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
我的系统需要安装这2个包。
[root@server1 ~]# wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/5/i386/python-netaddr-0.5.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm
[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh python-netaddr-0.5.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm
warning: python-netaddr-0.5.2-1.el5.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:python-netaddr ########################################### [100%]
[root@server1 ~]# wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/epel/5/i386/mod_wsgi-3.2-2.el5.i386.rpm
[root@server1 ~]# rpm -ivh mod_wsgi-3.2-2.el5.i386.rpm
warning: mod_wsgi-3.2-2.el5.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 217521f6
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:mod_wsgi ########################################### [100%]
安装完成2个上面的包之后再次安装
[root@server1 ~]# yum -y install cobbler httpd rsync tftp-server xinetd dhcp python-ctypes pykickstart cman
...中间省略
[root@server1 ~]# chkconfig httpd on
[root@server1 ~]# chkconfig cobblerd on
[root@server1 ~]# chkconfig dhcpd on
[root@server1 ~]# chkconfig xinetd on
[root@server1 ~]#/etc/init.d/iptables stop
[root@server1 ~]#chkconfig --level 35 iptables off
服务控制脚本
[root@server1 ~]#chmod +x /etc/init.d/cobbler_all
用法：/etc/init.d/cobbler_all start|stop|startus|sync
脚本内容：
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
start)
/etc/init.d/httpd start
/etc/init.d/xinetd start
/etc/init.d/dhcpd start
/etc/init.d/cobblerd start
;;
stop)
/etc/init.d/httpd stop
/etc/init.d/xinetd stop
/etc/init.d/dhcpd stop
/etc/init.d/cobblerd stop
;;
status)
/etc/init.d/httpd status
/etc/init.d/xinetd status
/etc/init.d/dhcpd status
/etc/init.d/cobblerd status
;;
sync)
cobbler sync
;;
*)
echo "Input error,please in put 'start|stop|status|sync'!";
exit 2>&1 >/dev/null &
;;
esac
相关配置文件及目录：
cobbler相关配置文件: /etc/cobbler
cobbler数据存储目录: /var/www/cobbler
dhcp配置文件: /etc/dhcpd.conf
dhcp租期缓存文件: /var/lib/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases
pxe配置文件: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
ks模板文件: /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts_*.ks