I'm finding myself confused about how Foreman serves an iPXE script for a
booting system. What I'm looking for is the URL you would serve to a host
booting iPXE so it gets the initial iPXE script (e.g., the "filename"
parameter in an ISC DHCPd configuration).
From searching around, I've tried http://myserver/unattended/iPXE, and some
variations on that… but all I get are 404's.
Is there a document reference that indicates the URL you would use for this?
Thanks in advance.
Further looking, I see the URL does work, but not matching up the host (I
assume by IP address?):
2016-04-27T21:13:33 [app] [I] Started GET "/unattended/iPXE" for
10.243.187.220 at 2016-04-27 21:13:33 +0000
2016-04-27T21:13:33 [app] [I] Processing by UnattendedController#iPXE as
HTML
2016-04-27T21:13:33 [app] [I] unattended: unable to find a host that
matches the request from 10.243.187.220
2016-04-27T21:13:33 [app] [I] Filter chain halted as :get_host_details
rendered or redirected
2016-04-27T21:13:33 [app] [I] Completed 404 Not Found in 13.3ms
(ActiveRecord: 1.8ms)
Still reading the code, but is there a URL pattern that will match hosts by
MAC address, UUID, or something other than the IP address?
The foreman_bootdisk plugin extends the search to include the MAC
address specified in the 'mac' parameter, as it uses iPXE in a similar
way. You could perhaps install the plugin to use this.
–
Dominic Cleal
dominic@cleal.org
This was helpful, at least in seeing that adding this does allow a URL form
""/unattended/iPXE?&mac=xxxxxx"
which does work for provisioning.
I do not, possible a separate matter, that this does not trigger any sort
of host discovery, however, just refuses to boot the system (no matching
host).
Is host discovery incompatible with the iPXE?