#theforeman

ohadlevy: I was reading the conversation you had with IdoKaplan some days ago; he mentioned that his Smart Proxy shows that "TFTP Server" is false. Mine does the same thing, but I was confused by it because it's clearly working just fine: https://i.imgur.com/4afRdEE.png

RulerOf: aha, i think i understand the miss understanding:) i was assuming he means the proxy config files,

RulerOf: thats actually a bug in displaying the data, as the tftp proxy has the ability to override its name from configuration, so if its not set, then its shows as false.

RulerOf: would you mind opening an issue for that?

hello, I'm attempting to install a foreman_proxy with dhcp/tftp/discovery via puppet and hiera. I succeeded in installing dhcp and tftp but cannot find a way to deploy the discovery part. This is the yaml http://pastebin.com/34gTg2WM

spidernik84: that should be fine, install_images includes the right module https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman_pr...

mmm somehow it does nothing, it does not create the config file or install the foreman-discovery deb package :(

I wonder if I'm using the scoping right

spidernik84: odd, that's the same setup I think I have , maybe lzap knows more

spidernik84: https://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_discover... alternatively you can install the packages

which is not much more difficult

will the package take care of enabling the plugin on its own? In that case it might well be a solution

maybe the discovery proxy plugin needs to get nabled first

spidernik84: it's 2 steps, install the package and then enable it on /etc/foreman-proxy/settings.d

spidernik84: see oreman_proxy::plugin::discovery

spidernik84: actually no need to enable it.. just 'yum install rubygem-smart_proxy_discovery ' installs it and /etc/foreman-proxy/settings.d/discovery.yml is enabled (you can configure the port and so forth if you need to)

(I just did it)

cool. Thanks! I'll experiment

it'd be no-frills, I'll be around though if you have any issues with it

thanks. I have another question regarding discovery: The guide suggests to point the pxe file to the proxy by hardcoding the url of the proxy itself. Ok, but what if I have 10 proxies? There's no <proxy_url> variable I can use, afaik...

in case of such a limitation it would be ok to use foreman as the discovery point and just skip the discovery proxies.

spidernik84: no need for that, foreman automatically deploys the templates to each proxy with their hostnames

I am reading this https://theforeman.org/plugins/foreman_discover.... In particular:

"In case Smart Proxy Discovery plugin is configured to forward communication, configure the APPEND line in the following way: APPEND … proxy.url=https://FOREMAN_PROXY_INSTANCE:8443 proxy.type=proxy"

FOREMAN_PROXY_INSTANCE is not a variable, right?

So it needs some static value. Or am I missing something?

spidernik84: ah sorry, yeah for that I think you need to use a static value - ideally some URL that's available from all your subnets if you have many, so you can use discovery everywhere

like, a url that resolves dinamically to the local proxy depending on what resolver replies?

spidernik84: for the actual PXE templates that are used on provisioning, 'foreman_url('provision')' is used instead. This will query the Host interface set for TFTP, check what proxies are in it's subnet, and use that URL for actual provisioning

so the FOREMAN_PROXY_INSTANCE is only to download the image and register. At this point I could just skip the discovery proxies altogether.

spidernik84: yeah, that's so any host you boot with that in the proxy subnet picks up that discovery image by default when booting via PXE and registers to foreman

!note spidernik84: you can skip the discovery proxies if hosts in all your subnets would be able to reach Foreman to download the discovery image, yeah

okay then :)

dLobatog, found the way to configure discovery via puppet. I forgot to include the discovery class: "classes: [foreman_proxy, 'foreman_proxy::plugin::discovery']". foreman_proxy was there already. Now it took care of everything: package, image download and setup. Thanks for the help

spidernik84: glad to hear that, however install_images should include that class, see line 26-28 here (https://github.com/theforeman/puppet-foreman_pr...)

if it didn't patches are welcome :)

ah! I'll see what I can do :)

spidernik84: even opening an issue menioning the problem and what you tried would be good

sure, that's more up to my level :P