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+# Ansible Cobbler external inventory script settings
+#
+
+[cobbler]
+
+host = http://PATH_TO_COBBLER_SERVER/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
+
+
+