Some Cobbler 3 scripts to quickly test XMLRPC. Install on the Cobbler host, login config: cobbler/cobbler.

demo_connect.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

"""
Copyright 2007-2009, Red Hat, Inc and Others
Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan AT gmail>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301  USA
"""

from xmlrpc.client import ServerProxy
import optparse

if __name__ == "__main__":
    p = optparse.OptionParser()
    p.add_option("-u","--user",dest="user",default="cobbler")
    p.add_option("-p","--pass",dest="password",default="cobbler")

    # NOTE: if you've changed your xmlrpc_rw port or
    # disabled xmlrpc_rw this test probably won't work

    sp = ServerProxy("http://127.0.0.1:25151")
    (options, args) = p.parse_args()
    print(("- trying to login with user=%s" % options.user))
    token = sp.login(options.user,options.password)
    print(("- token: %s" % token))
    print("- authenticated ok, now seeing if user is authorized")
    check = sp.check_access(token,"imaginary_method_name")
    print(("- access ok? %s" % check))

new_distro.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")


# make sure "/opt/stuff/" exists and has "vmlinuz" and "initrd.img". Files can be empty.
distro_id = remote.new_distro(token)
remote.modify_distro(distro_id, 'name',   'example-distro',token)
remote.modify_distro(distro_id, 'kernel', '/opt/stuff/vmlinuz',token)
remote.modify_distro(distro_id, 'initrd', '/opt/stuff/initrd.img',token)
remote.save_distro(distro_id,token)

read_snippet.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

# Cobbler 3
remote.read_autoinstall_snippet("some-snippet",token)

read_template.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

# Cobbler 3
remote.read_autoinstall_template("foo.ks",token)

read_write_kickstart.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import xmlrpclib
remote =  xmlrpclib.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

new_contents_as_a_string = "Testing"

# Cobbler 2 - pick one:
#remote.read_or_write_kickstart_template("/var/lib/cobbler/templates/foo.ks",False,new_contents_as_a_string,token)
remote.read_or_write_kickstart_template("/var/lib/cobbler/templates/foo.ks",True,new_contents_as_a_string,token)

remove_template.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

# Cobbler 3
remote.remove_autoinstall_template("foo.ks",token)

write_snippet.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

# Cobbler 3
remote.write_autoinstall_snippet("some-snippet","some content\n",token)

write_template.py

#!/usr/bin/python3

import xmlrpc.client
remote =  xmlrpc.client.Server("http://127.0.0.1/cobbler_api")
token = remote.login("cobbler","cobbler")

# Cobbler 3
remote.write_autoinstall_template("foo.ks","some content\n",token)