In an office network already managed by DHCP (hands out addresses on 10.10.0.0/16). Not permitted to run DHCP on Foreman so the work around is configure Discovery Image.
There’s a external iPXE server (10.10.1.217) already configured that successfully installs the Discovery Image to network booted clients.
Foreman/Foreman_Proxy are running on 10.10.16.32. (https://foreman.network.com). Also the unattended provisioning URL.
Created a Subnet on Foreman (10.10.16.0/24). Specified None for IPAM and Boot Mode is set to static. Didn’t specify DNS server/gateway.
From the Discovery Image, using DHCP configuration works and updates the discovered hosts in Foreman (Status: SUCCESS -awaiting kexec into installer). All hosts get placed in the default organization and location.
When trying to provision host from Foreman Web- Attempting to install CentOS 7 with Discovery Template (kickstart default) and Provisioning Template (Discovery Red Hat kexec).
Host interface ->
DNS Name : mac005056b5d057
Domain: foreman.net
IPv4 Subnet: Discovery(10.10.16.0/24)
IPv4 Address 10.10.16.159
Output during provisioning on the Discovery image is: Warning: anaconda: failed to fetch kickstart from https://foreman.network.com/unattended/provision?token= [token number] &static=yes ). Tried extending token expiration.
Expected outcome:
Join Discovered host to the subnet and find/use the kickstart provisioning file.
Foreman and Proxy versions:
2.5.0
Foreman and Proxy plugin versions:
foreman_discovery 17.0.1
Distribution and version:
Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS Focal Focus
& yes I understand that without setting the DNS server in the subnet configuration that the host will not resolve.
Since DHCP/DNS are both external - after the host is discovered, I configure the primary interface to not be Managed (uncheck “Managed”. The description provided for this option is; “If the Managed flag is disabled, none of the services will be configured for this interface, even if it is configured for the subnet and domain”).
Nevertheless, I had also tried setting the DNS server in the subnet to the authoritative DNS server on the network. The result was the same - “failed to fetch…”
:http_port: 80 in [/etc/foreman-proxy/settings.yml]
Then restarted the foreman service.
Attempt #1:
Provision on the Discovered Host. Managed flag enabled on the primary interface and pointing to the external DNS server in our configured subnet.
Got this error:
“There was an error rendering the Kickstart default template: ERF42-7327 [Foreman::Exception]: The snippet ‘puppet.conf’ threw an error: undefined method ‘#present?’ for Safemode::Jail (Environment)”
