4. General Principles

This should just be a brief overview. For the detailed explanations please refer to Readthedocs.

4.1. Distros, Profiles and Systems

Cobbler has a system of inheritance when it comes to managing the information you want to apply to a certain system.

4.2. Images

4.3. Repositories

4.4. Management Classes

4.5. Deleting configuration entries

If you want to remove a specific object, use the remove command with the name that was used to add it.

cobbler distro|profile|system|repo|image|menu remove --name=string

4.6. Editing

If you want to change a particular setting without doing an add again, use the edit command, using the same name you gave when you added the item. Anything supplied in the parameter list will overwrite the settings in the existing object, preserving settings not mentioned.

cobbler distro|profile|system|repo|image|menu edit --name=string [parameterlist]

4.7. Copying

Objects can also be copied:

cobbler distro|profile|system|repo|image|menu copy --name=oldname --newname=newname

4.8. Renaming

Objects can also be renamed, as long as other objects don’t reference them.

cobbler distro|profile|system|repo|image|menu rename --name=oldname --newname=newname