Kickstart Profiles and Satellite Proxy

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I've been looking all over the place for information about Kickstart profiles and how to make them available via the Satellite Proxy.

Everything that I have found seems to indicate that if you make a new KS profile in Satellite, you should see that profile available in the Kickstart Boot Menu whether you PXE boot from the Satellite or the Proxy server.

In my environment, however, the Kickstart Boot Menu is completely different if I PXE boot from the Satellite vs. from the Proxy.

Does anyone know how to make KS profiles available from the KS boot menu on the Proxy?

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XD Red Hat Guru 2897 points
13 June 2013 10:46 PM

Hello Dan,

Re "Kickstart profiles and how to make them available via the Satellite Proxy" - just to clarify, are you using the RHN Proxy ks urls such as examples in https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/html-single/Getting_Started_Guide/index.html#sect-Getting_Started_Guide-Kickstarting_a_Machine-Provisioning_Through_an_RHN_Proxy ?

 

XD Red Hat Guru 2897 points
18 June 2013 12:51 AM

...to expand further, you can copy the tftp directory from the Satellite server, and replace the Satellite ks urls with Proxy urls via https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Network_Satellite/5.5/html-single/Getting_Started_Guide/index.html#sect-Getting_Started_Guide-Kickstarting_a_Machine-Provisioning_Through_an_RHN_Proxy

DC Pro 539 points
3 July 2013 4:26 PM

Xixi,

I have not yet attempted using the Bare metal features in Satellite, but that is going to be my next test.

Thanks for the reply!!

PD Community Member 50 points
28 February 2014 5:06 PM

I've copied the entire /var/lib/tftpboot dir on my proxy server. However I do not see any kickstart profiles on proxy server.
What am I missing?

R. Hinton's picture Guru 6827 points
28 February 2014 7:33 PM

Hi Parag,

Not sure if this will help, I suspect there are other matters involved, but just in case...

Are you by chance using SELinux? If so, verify the SELinux contexts in the new location (set proper contexts if needed), and perhaps also the typical permissions

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