Cobbler - what is the advantage?

 
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Old 12-13-2012
Cobbler - what is the advantage?

Hi guys, new user here, so please be gentle.

I need to build a lot of servers at work on a weekly basis with various versions of RH and additional applications.

We use PXE/Kickstart to do this with selections made from a simple menu structure.

However, I keep hearing about Cobbler and although I have some documentation on it, I still cannot figure out any advantage it has over the pxe/kickstart method.

What am I not 'getting'?
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CFETOOLIMPORT(8)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					  CFETOOLIMPORT(8)

NAME
cfetoolimport - import the contents of a database from XML format SYNOPSIS
cfetool import name --file|-f filename [--path|-p directory name] [--daily|-d] [--weekly|-w] [--yearly|-y] [--verbose|-v] [--help|-h] DESCRIPTION
Creates a new database from it's XML representation, in the format created by rrdtool dump. The -d, -w, and -y options specify which databases to create and look for in the dump, and may be combined. If they are all omitted, the default is to only import the weekly database. OPTIONS
--file|-f filename Specifies the XML file to restore. --path|-p The directory in which to create the new database folder. If this argument is not provided, the current working directory will be used. --daily|-d Create a database for recording daily patterns. --weekly|-w Create a database for recording weekly patterns. --yearly|-y Create a database for recording yearly patterns. --verbose|-v Print details of the command's execution to the standard output stream. --help|-h Print a short help message and then exit. EXAMPLE
% cfetool import temperature_copy --path /my/path --file ./temperature.xml Create a new weekly database, "temperature_copy", in the "/my/path" directory, and import it's contents from the file "temperature.xml" in the current working directory. AUTHORS
The code and documentation were contributed by Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, a department of Stanford University. This documentation was written by Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net> and Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu> COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
Copyright 2004 Alf Wachsmann <alfw@slac.stanford.edu> and Elizabeth Cassell <e_a_c@mailsnare.net> All rights reserved. perl v5.8.4 2004-09-21 CFETOOLIMPORT(8)