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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CFETOOLINFO(8)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					    CFETOOLINFO(8)

NAME
cfetoolinfo - Get information about a database SYNOPSIS
cfetool info name [--path|-p directory name] [--daily|-d] [--weekly|-w] [--yearly|-y] [--verbose|-v] [--help|-h] DESCRIPTION
Prints out some basic information about the specified database, including: the location of the database, the location of the histogram file (if there is one), the step interval, the database age, the time it was last updated, and the current overall average and variation. OPTIONS
--path|-p directory name The directory in which to find the database folder. If this argument is not provided, the current working directory will be assumed. --daily|-d Provide information about the daily averages database. --weekly|-w Provide information about the weekly averages database. --yearly|-y Provide information about the yearly averages database. --verbose|-v Print details of the command's execution to the standard output stream. --help|-h Prints a short help message and then exits. EXAMPLE
% cfetool info temperature --path /my/path Weekly average database: Database Location: /my/path/temperature/weekly.db Histogram file: /my/path/temperature/weekly.hist Step: 10 minutes Database Age: 0.000992 weeks (1 steps) Last update: Mon Sep 13 16:20:40 2004 (1095117640) Current average: 7.105000, Var: 38.280217 AUTHORS
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