| mwhudson | bigjools: hey, can you give me a clue how commissioning works | 00:15 |
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| mwhudson | bigjools: is it a custom initrd you serve up? | 00:15 |
| bigjools | mwhudson: what's hard in the morning | 00:15 |
| bigjools | oh not that sort of clue | 00:15 |
| bigjools | mwhudson: yes, the images live in /var/lib/maas/ephemeral IIRC | 00:16 |
| mwhudson | oh hm, it mounts a rootfs over iscsi? or am i reading this wrong? | 00:17 |
| bigjools | mwhudson: that's the installer image | 00:29 |
| bigjools | but yes | 00:29 |
| mwhudson | oh hang on | 00:29 |
| mwhudson | i think i meant enlistment | 00:29 |
| mwhudson | that thing where you boot a node for the first time | 00:29 |
| bigjools | it uses the same image | 00:29 |
| mwhudson | ok | 00:29 |
| bigjools | as commissioning | 00:29 |
| bigjools | just different options | 00:30 |
| mwhudson | ok | 00:51 |
| mwhudson | what i was trying to find out (as well as learning a bit more about MAAS) was how the name of a enlisted node was determined | 00:52 |
| mwhudson | i guess ultimately it must come (in my case) from the hostname supplied via dhcp | 00:52 |
| bigjools | mwhudson: it's a uuid | 00:54 |
| mwhudson | sorry not name | 00:54 |
| mwhudson | fqdn | 00:54 |
| bigjools | mwhudson: from memory, if you don't have a domain on the name already it uses the cluster's name as the domain | 00:55 |
| bigjools | so if you have your cluster called example.com then you'll end up with node.example.com | 00:55 |
| bigjools | maas creates dns zone called example.com and ensures the node's name is in it | 00:56 |
| mwhudson | right, but where does the "node" bit come from? | 00:56 |
| bigjools | the name of the node, either the auto-generated one or whatever you change it to | 00:56 |
| bigjools | acutally it's not a uuid any more, there was a change to give it a random 5-char name | 00:56 |
| Dr{Who} | Q. I am trying to limit the physical connections to my metal. I have 2 ports but using 1 is better. I have it setup as a vlan tagged port on my switches and I have configured the onboard nic to pxe using vlan 10. now it connects and downloads the startup image but at that point it fails because eth0 is not on a vlan. Can i tell maas to make sure to setup vlan on 10 during the next step? | 01:49 |
| Dr{Who} | also for some reason it keesp trying to iscsi up to the trusted side of my maas server not the other side. I have tried to figure out how to make that perm I have been editing the pxe config files by hand and it keeps reverting back or finding new places where that wrong ip is used. | 02:09 |
| Dr{Who} | also running dpkg-reconfigure maas does ask for the correct interface ip but it does not do anything. When I rebuild using 'maas-import-ephemerals' it uses the other ip. | 02:38 |
| bigjools | which version of maas are you using? | 03:05 |
| Dr{Who} | it is ubuntu 12.04 LTS and what ever came with it. | 04:07 |
| Dr{Who} | im still a bit confused as to do I use LTS or do I run the latest stuff that just came out the other day in 13.what ever it was. | 04:07 |
| Dr{Who} | i understood the point of LTS is well it will be "supported" long term : ) | 04:08 |
| bigjools | Dr{Who}: the release in 13.04 is much superior | 04:08 |
| bigjools | 12.04 is basically broken, there's a pending SRU which brings it up to the same code as quantal | 04:08 |
| bigjools | you can use the stable PPA which has a more recent release, until the SRU is done | 04:09 |
| Dr{Who} | sounds like if I want to wait then 12.04 will be patched or I can use unstable I saw that someplace how to use that. Or I can just use 13.04. I vote 13.04 WAY too many problems and I am not doing production just testing anyway. Will 12.04 have all the latest stuff someday? because in production I like LTS | 04:10 |
| Dr{Who} | ok. Well anway I will try 13 out tomorrow. but I do hope all these goodies come to LTS soon. | 04:13 |
| bigjools | Dr{Who}: 12.04 will get an improved version in the near future | 04:20 |
| bigjools | we're just promoting some components to main from universe to be able to complete it | 04:20 |
| bigjools | but the version in the stable PPA is identical | 04:20 |
| bigjools | but 13.04 would be ideal, yes | 04:20 |
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| mgz | allenap: how are manual uploads to maas file storage meant to work? | 16:57 |
| racedo | ping roaksoax | 17:28 |
| roaksoax | racedo: here | 17:29 |
| racedo | hey roaksoax | 17:31 |
| racedo | quick one, how does maas know during enlisting about the IPMI IP | 17:32 |
| racedo | i don't know where to look at in an installation where the IPMI settings are not being picked up | 17:32 |
| roaksoax | racedo: during enlistment maas runs a script that tries to detect ipmi user/password, IP | 17:35 |
| roaksoax | racedo: in queries the BMC for it | 17:35 |
| racedo | ok | 17:35 |
| roaksoax | racedo: so if the BMC might be returning 0.0.0.0 for ip address | 17:35 |
| racedo | can i do it manually to debug why it doesn't work | 17:35 |
| roaksoax | racedo: /usr/share/maas/preseeds/enlist_preseed | 17:35 |
| roaksoax | racedo: yeah you can | 17:36 |
| roaksoax | racedo: first do this: https://lists.launchpad.net/maas-devel/msg00808.html | 17:36 |
| roaksoax | so you can debug the epemeral image | 17:36 |
| roaksoax | racedo: so during the enlistment process you can simply ssh into the image and prevent it from rebooting | 17:36 |
| roaksoax | racedo: and then you could run the script | 17:36 |
| roaksoax | racedo: unless you are thinking of something else? | 17:37 |
| racedo | ok, i was thinking about trying it from the maas node where the hardware is the same if possible | 17:37 |
| roaksoax | racedo: unless you want to install ubuntu on the machine and run the script independently | 17:37 |
| roaksoax | racedo: and you can too | 17:37 |
| racedo | yeah | 17:37 |
| roaksoax | racedo: so /usr/share/maas/preseeds/enlist_userdata | 17:38 |
| roaksoax | racedo: go to: add_bin "maas-ipmitool-autodetect" <<"END_MAAS_IPMITOOL_AUTODETECT" | 17:38 |
| roaksoax | and copy/paste that section in a script and run it with sudo | 17:38 |
| racedo | ok | 17:38 |
| roaksoax | racedo: what hardware is this? | 17:39 |
| racedo | this are the blade servers in the boston lab | 17:39 |
| roaksoax | racedo: what's their IP addresses? | 17:40 |
| roaksoax | racedo: hold on | 17:40 |
| roaksoax | racedo: don't given them to me | 17:40 |
| racedo | :) | 17:40 |
| AskUbuntu | Juju and MAAS: ERROR No matching node is available | http://askubuntu.com/q/289226 | 19:13 |
| roaksoax | dho/win 9 | 19:41 |
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| === kentb is now known as kentb-out | ||
| TheChistoso | hello... | 23:45 |
| TheChistoso | i can't get maas to move a node from deployed to ready | 23:45 |
| TheChistoso | the machine looks like it's ready to go... | 23:46 |
| TheChistoso | but maas is showing the nodes as deployed only | 23:46 |
| bigjools | what are you doing to try and move it? | 23:46 |
| TheChistoso | the node is up and it said at the end that cloud init had completed | 23:46 |
| TheChistoso | i'm not doing anything | 23:46 |
| bigjools | so you enlisted it and then clicked "accept and commission" ? | 23:47 |
| TheChistoso | i thought that after it was done commissioning it would update the state itself | 23:47 |
| TheChistoso | yes -- and it completed all of that | 23:47 |
| TheChistoso | (on that note, though -- it wasn't fully automated -- I had to intervene to specify the file system partition layout) | 23:48 |
| bigjools | in commissioning it uses the same mechanism at the end of enlisting to signal to maas that it's done | 23:48 |
| bigjools | so this is odd | 23:48 |
| bigjools | does it work if you don't specify your custom partition? | 23:49 |
| TheChistoso | i didn't specify a custom partition | 23:49 |
| TheChistoso | i told it to use the guided partitioning scheme w/ lvm | 23:49 |
| TheChistoso | now the default is set to use precise -- i assume that's still okay | 23:50 |
| bigjools | what happens on the node's console when it commissions? | 23:50 |
| TheChistoso | everything appears to be fine during that phase | 23:51 |
| Marlinc | Shoudn't MAAS install Ubuntu on one of my hosts? | 23:51 |
| TheChistoso | Marlinc: yes | 23:51 |
| Marlinc | Because it did two reboots to add it to MAAS and one to set it up | 23:51 |
| Marlinc | But it didn't overwrite the previous install | 23:52 |
| Marlinc | Or is there something I dont get right | 23:52 |
| bigjools | maas only installs Ubuntu when something requests to use a node | 23:52 |
| TheChistoso | i've had a lot of problems w/ maas if you mess any of your configuration up. the only way i can get it to work cleanly is if i blow the entire thing away and start from scratch. it's a real pain... | 23:52 |
| bigjools | which version of maas? | 23:53 |
| bigjools | the one currently in precise is broken | 23:53 |
| TheChistoso | whichever the latest one shipping w/ raring is | 23:53 |
| bigjools | that one is fine | 23:53 |
| bigjools | I am surprised you need to start from scratch, that was only necessary in precise | 23:54 |
| Marlinc | So how would I make MAAS install Ubuntu? Just to see if it works | 23:54 |
| Marlinc | Or what would I need to do to see if it works | 23:54 |
| bigjools | Marlinc: bootstrap with juju is easiest | 23:54 |
| TheChistoso | there are lots of little gotchas and the documentation isn't coherent -- i've had to piece things together. e.g. generating an ssh key using RSA and a 2048-bit cipher and adding that to your account before commissioning... | 23:55 |
| bigjools | you don't need to add an ssh key before commissioning | 23:55 |
| TheChistoso | well there is documentation out that that says you do... | 23:56 |
| bigjools | before deploying, yes, before commissioning no | 23:56 |
| Marlinc | You need to add your SSH key in the web interface | 23:56 |
| Marlinc | Thats the only place right? | 23:56 |
| bigjools | Marlinc: you don't need to do that if you use juju | 23:56 |
| TheChistoso | minor feature request -- option for maas to generate a jujuu environments.yaml | 23:56 |
| Marlinc | That would be very nice lol | 23:56 |
| bigjools | TheChistoso: that will be available in the next release of juju | 23:57 |
| bigjools | it's not a maas problem | 23:57 |
| TheChistoso | not saying it is :D | 23:57 |
| bigjools | if you find problems, please file bugs | 23:57 |
| bigjools | otherwise nothing will get looked at | 23:57 |
| bigjools | and there's not always people around on here | 23:57 |
| TheChistoso | i understand (c: i write software for a living myself | 23:57 |
| bigjools | we're quite receptive to fixing problems | 23:58 |
| TheChistoso | so where should i start looking for answers? | 23:58 |
| bigjools | but the nature of this beast makes it hard to diagnose stuff | 23:58 |
| bigjools | answers to what? | 23:58 |
| TheChistoso | why my node isn't transitioning to ready | 23:58 |
| bigjools | I asked earlier what you see on the console | 23:59 |
| TheChistoso | i see a login prompt | 23:59 |
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