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Chapter 5. Provisioning with Satellite

Figure 5.3. Kickstart Snippets

For more information, refer to https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/KickstartSnippets.

5.7.3.1. Default Snippets

There are many snippets that ship by default and may be used in kickstarts written on or uploaded to

the Satellite server. You may want to look at a template from a wizard style kickstart located in /var/

lib/rhn/kickstarts/wizard/ and see what default snippets are used and how they are used.

One of the most useful ones is redhat_register.

The redhat_register snippet can be used to register machines to a Satellite server as

part of the kickstart. It uses a special variable called redhat_management_key to register it

to the server. Simply set that variable at either the system, profile, or distro level and then add

$SNIPPET('redhat_register') to a %post section of your kickstart. Any wizard style kickstarts

that are generated by the Satellite server will already include this snippet in it's pre-made %post

section.

5.7.3.2. Escaping Special Characeters

Since the $ and # characters are used during templating for specifying variables and control flow, you

should not use these characters within scripts without escaping them.

So for example, if you were writing a bash script in a %post section:

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