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melmothwhere to look at log if nothing happens when i pxe boot a node for the first time ? By nothing happen i mean, nothing happen on the weeb interface05:06
melmoththe node get the image, seems to runs some stuff, then power itself off05:06
melmothat this stage, i was expecting to see it as 'declared' in the web interface05:06
melmothbut nope, nothing.05:06
melmothand i do not find obvious error messages.05:06
kurt_melmoth: this can sometimes be due to clock sync errors05:11
kurt_one host is too far off time05:12
melmothhmmmm05:13
melmoththat s going to be fun to check05:14
kurt_bios?05:14
melmothdo you know roughly how much time change is suppose to be ok (secondes, minutes, hours), or even 1 sec could be problem ?05:15
kurt_from the problems I've seen, it has to be significant, like hours.05:15
kurt_but I'm not an expert in this area05:16
kurt_I've not tested how many is too much05:16
bigjoolsIIRC it's an hour or so05:27
bigjoolshowever05:28
bigjoolsthis bug was fixed ages ago, if you are using any up-to-date maas it won't be a problem05:28
bigjoolsmelmoth: if there's nothing in the maas logs, can you see anything on the node's console?05:28
melmothhmmm, let see what happen after tftp is actually listening on the right interface....05:37
melmoth(and i wonder now that i realise it was not, how the node was able to download somethign to boot from)05:37
kurt_bigjools:  do you know how to force juju to deploy to particular nodes?  I'm thinking from the MAAS perspective and need to run multiple charms on a single node.06:02
bigjoolskurt_: juju cannot deploy multiple charms to a single node06:03
bigjoolsthere's some work coming up in juju-core that allows lxc creation which will do it though06:03
kurt_How does one create a "controller" node with all of its related services for openstack?  Just not possible?06:04
bigjoolssorry I don't understand what you mean06:06
kurt_Have a look at the network diagram here:06:06
kurt_https://github.com/mseknibilel/OpenStack-Folsom-Install-guide/blob/master/OpenStack_Folsom_Install_Guide_WebVersion.rst06:06
kurt_Notice the compute node, network node, controller node all run consolidated services06:07
bigjoolsyou're probably better off asking on the #juju channel.06:10
kurt_Another question please - do most people NAT their connections for the MAAS clients via the region controller?06:12
bigjoolsyou mean api clients?06:12
bigjoolsor are you talking about the nodes?06:13
kurt_nodes06:13
bigjoolsyou can do what you like with them, it's down to your own network setup06:13
kurt_I'm struggling with some network aspects of running openstack on top of MAAS06:13
bigjoolsthere's a charm to deploy openstack on maas somewhere,  but again, #juju :)06:14
kurt_currently, I have the maas nodes NAT via the region controller (single node).  That gives them the internet access they need, but it causes further problems down the chain when trying to make quantum work06:15
* bigjools has to go06:16
kurt_thanks anyways06:16
MACscrso i just installed maas, install finished and now im trying to get to the gui and i get a generic internal error10:34
MACscrthough i dont see any apache logs, lol10:35
MACscroh, nvm, got it10:35
MACscrhad to sudo su to find them10:35
MACscrguess mass wont start: DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner: Could not get owner of name 'org.freedesktop.Avahi': no such name10:40
MACscrgot it, was an rlimit issue in the daemon10:54
AskUbuntuCan we get Xenserver VMs provisioned by MAAS? | http://askubuntu.com/q/33742512:25
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kentbargh! so, what's the best way to debug why ipmi no longer works on my maas setup?  I did an update to 1.2+bzr1373+dfsg-0ubuntu1~12.04.2 and now I can't power up any nodes from the WebUI, although I can run ipmipower and bring the nodes up and down at will :-/15:33
kentbugh. nevermind, had to restart maas-cluster-celery, maas-region-celery, and maas-pserv to get it going again15:44
addisonjso, getting started with maas, is it possible to do anything without dhcp supporting pxe? If I manually add a host via mac, can I commission it that way?18:42
roaksoaxaddisonj: no, the nodes always have to PXE boot, there's no other way to tell the nodes what to execute if they don't pxe boot19:48
addisonjokay, figured as much, so antoher question, is there are problem with using a maas-managed dhcp range to also boot normal clients (laptops and the like)19:49
roaksoaxaddisonj: no not really. Though, the maas managed DHCP server will tell them to PXE boot19:49
roaksoaxaddisonj: unless you disable network booting from the BIOS19:49
addisonjright, and if I don't accept the nodes, it won't matter to much anyway, right?19:50
roaksoaxaddisonj: exactly. So you could just tell those nodes to look the HD as the first boot device too19:50
roaksoaxand they will not pxe boot19:50
addisonjokay, so now, onto dns, does maas rely on DNS? or can it run just with IP addresses?19:54
addisonjhrm... so this is odd, my server is trying to pxeboot, getting a message: "trying to load: pxelinux.cfg/default" and this is hitting the correct dhcp server19:56
addisonjbut just hanging19:56
addisonjah, I had edited some settings in importing pxe files because I don't need ARM and also took at i386, turns out it defaults to i38620:15
roaksoaxaddisonj: it does rely on DNS20:46
roaksoaxaddisonj: yeah so you'20:46
roaksoaxaddisonj: yeah so you'll need both i386 and amd64 otherwise it will fail20:46
roaksoaxthere's a bug20:46
roaksoaxbigjools: ^^20:46
addisonjokay, so, have my nodes going (hooray!) but I misnamed one of them. Doing everything as root, can't seem to delete or change the name21:23
MACscris there any way to use diskless nodes with maas? Pretty much their storage would be nfs or iscsi (im using ceph block and object storage for the openstack cluster)21:37
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bigjoolsMACscr: it's on the roadmap to go diskless at some point but no immediate plans. However you could implement it cheaply by setting the root filesystem as a kernel option on the node.  That's already done for the enlist/commission step using iScsi23:45
bigjoolsaddisonj: you can edit the node's name in the web ui23:45
addisonjbigjools: when I try that, it tells me I can't because it is currently in use23:46
addisonjis there some way to take it back into the queue?23:46
bigjoolsroaksoax: yes there's an open bug for that23:46
bigjoolsaddisonj: and is it in use?23:46
addisonjbigjools: it is commissioned and installed, but turned off23:47
bigjoolsaddisonj: why is it off?  did you manually turn it off or did you try to release it from the assigned user?  in fact how did you start it?23:48
MACscrbigjools: is there any documentation on this kernel option?23:49
bigjoolsI am guessing that you started it from the UI and then turned it off23:49
addisonjI turned it off manually, but I actually turned it on manually as well. WOL is not triggering it for some reason (might have to do with some traffic filtering)23:49
bigjoolswhat state does the ui say that the node has?23:50
addisonj"Allocated to root"23:51
bigjoolsok then you need to use maas-cli to release it23:52
bigjoolshttp://maas.ubuntu.com/docs/maascli.html#node23:52
bigjoolsmaas-cli <profile> node release <node id>23:52
addisonjah, so is "Allocated to <user>" the correct running state? or because WOL is failing I am getting some funky?23:53
bigjoolsallocated means that maas thinks someone is using it23:53
bigjoolsthat happens when you click "start" in the UI23:53
bigjoolsor e.g. juju starts it up using the ap23:53
bigjoolsi23:53
bigjools"release" puts it back to the Ready state and then you can rename it23:54
addisonjso why don't I see a release button?23:54
bigjoolsbecause there isn't one23:54
addisonjah23:54
bigjoolsbug :)23:54
bigjoolsbrb23:54
addisonjmany thanks, and, also a very cool project :)23:55
addisonjgot it running in like 4 hours and 8 nodes provision, and that makes me happy23:55
bigjoolsMACscr: not sure, let me lool23:56
bigjoolsaddisonj: great!23:56

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