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Update intro_dynamic_inventory.rst (#15750)

When using Cobbler with Ansible a cobbler.ini file is needed by the /etc/ansible/cobbler.py script, otherwise Python errors like ConfigParser.NoSectionError: No section: 'cobbler' are shown. Maybe this could be added to the documentation. Thanks and cheers!
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Miguel Cabrerizo 2016-05-06 15:57:16 +02:00 committed by Brian Coca
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@ -34,6 +34,28 @@ To tie Ansible's inventory to Cobbler (optional), copy `this script <https://raw
to be running when you are using Ansible and you'll need to use Ansible's ``-i`` command line option (e.g. ``-i /etc/ansible/cobbler.py``).
This particular script will communicate with Cobbler using Cobbler's XMLRPC API.
Also a cobbler.ini file should be added to /etc/ansible so Ansible knows where the Cobbler server is and some cache improvements can be used. For example::
[cobbler]
# Set Cobbler's hostname or IP address
host = http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api
# API calls to Cobbler can be slow. For this reason, we cache the results of an API
# call. Set this to the path you want cache files to be written to. Two files
# will be written to this directory:
# - ansible-cobbler.cache
# - ansible-cobbler.index
cache_path = /tmp
# The number of seconds a cache file is considered valid. After this many
# seconds, a new API call will be made, and the cache file will be updated.
cache_max_age = 900
First test the script by running ``/etc/ansible/cobbler.py`` directly. You should see some JSON data output, but it may not have anything in it just yet.
Let's explore what this does. In cobbler, assume a scenario somewhat like the following::