| === shang_ is now known as shang | |
| [12:47] <rvba> rbasak: I'm enlisting ARM nodes all right, but when I try to deploy something with juju on them, juju is never able to connect to them. | |
| [12:48] <rbasak> rvba: do you have serial output on the ARM nodes? You should be able to get this with ipmitool or freeipmi | |
| [12:48] <rvba> rbasak: I'm using the package in the dailyppa on precise. | |
| [12:48] <rvba> rbasak: this is happening in the lab | |
| [15:58] <smoser> rvba, ping. | |
| [15:58] <smoser> i'm playing aroudn with some stuff, and i'd liek a general bucke where i could put some information on start | |
| [15:58] <smoser> is there anything like that ? | |
| [15:59] <smoser> right now i can post to the api key value pairs with the start reqeust, but only 'user_data' and 'series' are paid attention to. | |
| [16:00] <smoser> i'd like for other stuff i post to get somehow attached ot the node (probably removed on 'release') | |
| [16:03] <rvba> smoser: hey | |
| [16:04] <smoser> the end goal would be for me to be able to get at those key/value pairs inside the templates | |
| [16:04] <rvba> smoser: if you have a look at the api code for start (http://paste.ubuntu.com/1414975/), we pass the 'user_data' to the start_nodes method and the 'series' is attached to the node. I don't know what you're trying to achieve really but looks like you might want to create new data attached to a node. | |
| [16:05] <smoser> i'd like a general bucket | |
| [16:05] <smoser> rather than "user_keys" or something. that everything got shoved into | |
| [16:05] <smoser> in my installer templates, i can then read stuff from there | |
| [16:06] <smoser> the specific motivation would be to pass something like: | |
| [16:06] <smoser> installer=fast_pass | |
| [16:06] <smoser> or | |
| [16:06] <smoser> installer=d-i | |
| [16:06] <smoser> that specific thing might make sense to have maas know about, but there are surely lots of other things that maas can just shuffle through. | |
| [16:07] <rvba> One solution would be to create a new JSONField on the node with a meaningful name (:)) and use that to store your stuff. | |
| [16:08] <rvba> This field would contain a json object that you could exploit in the installed templates. | |
| [16:08] <rvba> (you would have to make it available to the templates of course) | |
| [16:11] <rvba> smoser: maybe a JSONField is overkill if you just want to have one string to store installer parameters that can be stored as one line of text. | |
| [16:11] <smoser> json is just text. | |
| [16:11] <smoser> binary blob is most "I dont care" | |
| [16:12] <smoser> second is text that "I dont care" | |
| [16:12] <smoser> and if i'm suggesting that maas not care, then i'd suggest it really not care. | |
| [16:12] <smoser> (ie, not insist on json) | |
| [16:32] <smoser> rvba, i dont *hvae* to make it avaliable in the templates explicitly. as I can execute arbitrary python code there. | |
| === matsubara is now known as matsubara-lunch | |
| [16:39] <melmoth> is there a way in Maas to have several different preseed file used when a machine is being deployed ? | |
| [16:40] <melmoth> like, on some box creating a new partition on the drive (so we can use them to deploy a swift storage or nova-volumes charms) ? | |
| [16:40] <melmoth> (talking about maas on 12.04 btw) | |
| [16:41] <smoser> melmoth, why would you not do that via user-data ? | |
| [16:41] <smoser> what would be the value of doing it in the installer ? | |
| [16:41] <smoser> you *can* accomplish this (even in 12.04 most likely) by having the template execute whatever python code you want and call out to another service even more data). | |
| [16:41] <melmoth> i have no idea about the user-data thing. | |
| [16:41] <smoser> ? | |
| [16:42] <smoser> when you deploy a node in maas, it takes user-data ( just like on ec2/openstack ) | |
| [16:42] <melmoth> i understand user-data for vm, but for bare metal, once lcoud init runs , the machine is alreadt installed, so you cannot shrink / can you ? | |
| [16:42] <smoser> and cloud-init acts on that user-data. | |
| [16:42] <smoser> well, you can shrink filesystems, yes. | |
| [16:42] <smoser> but generally having the installer not take all for / if you wanted to use less makes more sense here. | |
| [16:43] <melmoth> but only for some machine. | |
| [17:25] <Aram> hi, I need a little hint. My maas controller has two ethernet interfaces. I want to use maas-dhcp and maas-dns. how do I tell maas-dhcp only to use eth1? I don't need a full answer, just a manual page name. | |
| === matsubara-lunch is now known as matsubara | |
| [18:51] <Aram> hmm... /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf does not get created by maas-dhcp. I was under the impression maas generates this files, do I need to create if by hand? | |
| [18:51] <Aram> I solved the eth1 problem, btw | |
| [18:52] <melmoth> any idea why bootstraping fail ? http://pastebin.com/gF72WSzq summary: The requested URL /MAAS/api/1.0/tags/ was not found on this server. | |
| [18:54] <Aram> I guess I could use maas-provision generate-dhcp-config to generate it, but what omapi key to use? | |
| [19:05] <matsubara> Aram, if you configure the controller through the web UI you'll be able to choose which interface is running the dhcp server | |
| [19:06] <matsubara> Aram, or you can use the maas-cli | |
| [19:06] <Aram> matsubara: thanks. found it. I feel stupid now. I didn't think of using the GUI at all. | |
| [19:07] <Aram> dhcpd seems to work now, but it can't find the tftp server | |
| [19:07] <Aram> do I need to manually enable that as well? | |
| [19:08] <matsubara> Aram, nope, the dhcpd.conf file is in /etc/maas/ can you paste that? the next_server parameter there is where the nodes will look for the tftp server | |
| [19:08] <Aram> ah, yes, the next server is wrong. it's on a different network interface | |
| [19:08] <matsubara> so, once you install maas, if you need to run dpkg-reconfigure maas to set the proper address for the pxe interface | |
| [19:09] <Aram> hmm... dpkg-reconfigure mass doesn't do anything | |
| [19:09] <Aram> maas | |
| [19:09] <Aram> exists with status 0 | |
| [19:09] <Aram> no output | |
| [19:10] <Aram> same with -p low | |
| [19:17] <Aram> ok, it was maas-region-controller, not maas, but dhcpd.conf is still wrong. | |
| [19:18] <Aram> well, when running dpkg-reconfigure maas-region-controller, I did get an error. | |
| [19:19] <Aram> this is the error | |
| [19:19] <Aram> http://paste.ubuntu.com/1415395/ | |
| [19:20] <Aram> don't know if the error is fatal or not, but it does rememer what I've set. | |
| [19:20] <Aram> but dhcpd.conf has the old name | |
| [19:21] <Aram> also the dns is wrong in dhcpd.conf, not only next-server | |
| [19:22] <Aram> this is my dhcpd.conf: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1415399/ | |
| [19:31] <Aram> matsubara: any idea about that error ^ ^ | |
| [19:33] <matsubara> Aram, you can change that file manually and run sudo service maas-dhcp restart | |
| [19:33] <matsubara> and check if the node will boot properly | |
| [20:21] <Aram> matsubara: I did that, am I correct in assuming my changed won't be overwritten? anyway, now it finds the TFTP server but it stops at 'Trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default' | |
| [20:21] <Aram> s/changed/changes/ | |
| [20:23] <Aram> Unable to locate configuration file | |
| [20:24] <matsubara> Aram, did you run maas-import-pxe-files? | |
| [20:25] <Aram> yes. | |
| [20:25] <Aram> but in /var/lib/maas/tftp/amd64/generic there's only precise | |
| [20:25] <Aram> and I set quantal in the web ui afterwards | |
| [20:30] <matsubara> maybe it failed to download the quantal images? | |
| [20:31] <Aram> it only tries to download precise | |
| [20:32] <Aram> ran it again | |
| [20:32] <Aram> precise node seems to boot via pxe, whohoo | |
| [20:32] <Aram> but I'd like quantas as well | |
| [20:32] <Aram> quantal | |
| [20:34] <Aram> hmm, the precise node didn't auto-enlist | |
| [20:39] <Aram> yep, nodes boot alright but with no auto enlistment | |
| [20:40] <Aram> am I doing something wrong? | |
| === lifeless_ is now known as lifeless | |
| [20:44] <Aram> yes they do | |
| [20:44] <Aram> it just took some time | |
| [20:44] <Aram> I see two nodes | |
| [20:44] <Aram> so now only the quantal problem remains | |
| [22:01] <Aram> why does it take so long for new nodes to appear in the maas interface? | |