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Jorick,

This is actually already a 'feature'. To do this:

1. Publish a kickstart tree within the content view
2. When creating a new host, you can select a lifecycle environment and content view.
3. On the operating system tab, select the OS and Arch that matches your kickstart tree
4. Notice that a url appears letting you know its using the content view.
5. Click Save

Now when the host provisions it will use the url pointing to the kickstart tree of the content view. The one caveat to using this is that ties the host's puppet environment to the puppet environment of the lifecycle environment/content view. We are looking to break this up in 2.1.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hmm, that is not the way it works in my Katello 2.0 install.

1. Publish a kickstart tree within the content view check
2. When creating a new host, you can select a lifecycle environment and content view. check
3. On the operating system tab, select the OS and Arch that matches your kickstart tree check
4. Notice that a url appears letting you know its using the content view. ?? where does this url appear? When I deploy the machine, it goes to mirror.centos.org. Also the default CentOS repo's are enabled. Or is this only working for RHEL ?

updating system time
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors

• base: mirror.oxilion.nl
• extras: mirror.oxilion.nl
• updates: mirror.oxilion.nl
  Resolving Dependencies
  --> Running transaction check
  Dependencies Resolved

================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================
Installing:
subscription-manager x86_64 1.13.12-1.el7.centos subscription-manager 784 k
Installing for dependencies:
libnl x86_64 1.1.4-3.el7 base 128 k
libxml2-python x86_64 2.9.1-5.el7_0.1 updates 244 k
m2crypto x86_64 0.21.1-15.el7 base 428 k
pygobject2 x86_64 2.28.6-11.el7 base 226 k
python-dateutil noarch 1.5-7.el7 base 85 k
python-dmidecode x86_64 3.10.13-11.el7 base 82 k
python-ethtool x86_64 0.8-5.el7 base 33 k
python-rhsm x86_64 1.13.8-1.el7.centos subscription-manager 112 k
usermode x86_64 1.111-5.el7 base 193 k

It should work for centos too. On the Operating System tab the "media" selection will disappear and just a url will show up.

Its possible something did not get configured correctly. Can you check:

Under "Infrastructure > Smart Proxies":

• There is a Smart Proxy listed with the same name as the katello server (it should also have a "Pulp" feature)
• That Smart Proxy is associated with the Default Organization (or whatever organization you are in), and the Default Location (Or whatever location you are wanting to use).

• Also when creating the new host, make sure you have selected the katello server as the "Content Source" on the very first tab.

Hrmmm The only other thing i can think of is that possibly the generated puppet environments are not assigned to the proper organization or location. Can you check that under Configure > Environments

I checked them and they are all assigned to the location and organization. We only have one in test at the moment.

Can I do something else to debug? Firebug or something?

I am experiencing this same issue.

I have followed all instructions here.

All puppet environments are associated with all locations and organizations. The Katello server is listed as the content source.

The smart proxy is listed with the same name as the Katello server and it has a pulp feature.
The smart proxy is associated with all organizations.

No matter what I do, the installation media stays at the dropdown and says I'm going to be installing off my Fedora 20 Install Media.

However, when I do the install, I can see from looking at the anaconda-ks file generated that it did actually use the content source. It did not disable the default CentOS repos though.

Are you configuring your host and installation media through a hostgroup or the host directly?