[01:43] <mpontillo> f1gjam: ah, is it working now? looks good?
[01:45] <f1gjam> mpontillo, nope
[01:45] <f1gjam> i just blew away the isntall doing it again
[01:46] <f1gjam> i think you were right about change the IP of the MAAS server
[01:46] <mpontillo> f1gjam: ok, the screenshot seemed to show it properly finding the MAAS data source
[01:47] <f1gjam> yes
[01:47] <f1gjam> but it doesnt do anything
[01:47] <f1gjam> just sits there for 40 mins
[01:47] <f1gjam> and then MAaS server marks as failed :(
[01:52] <mpontillo> f1gjam: really weird. are you able to get a packet capture of the deployment?
[01:52] <f1gjam> how would i do that
[01:52] <f1gjam> wireshark?
[01:52] <f1gjam> or soethjing?
[01:52] <mpontillo> f1gjam: I use a command like: tcpdump -s 0 'port not 22' -n -w deployment.pcap
[01:53] <mpontillo> on the rack controller
[01:53] <mpontillo> the 'port not 22' is so it doesn't capture your SSH traffic.
[01:53] <f1gjam> so isnbt the rack controller and maas server one box now
[01:53] <mpontillo> that will write a packet capture to 'deployment.pcap'. you'd probably need to be root or add "sudo" first.
[01:54] <mpontillo> f1gjam: yeah, by default it's the same machine but you can put the rack/cluster controller (we renamed it from cluster to rack in MAAS 2.0) on a separate machine if you want
[01:54] <f1gjam> ok so its all on one machine right now
[01:54] <f1gjam> give me two secs
[01:54] <f1gjam> im just waiting for it to install again
[01:54] <f1gjam> shouldnt take long
[01:54] <mpontillo> f1gjam: that's fine. if you get a pcap it'll unfortunately be pretty big, as you'll capture the entire image download (~200 MB or so I think)
[01:55] <mpontillo> f1gjam: but it may help to debug...
[01:55] <mpontillo> f1gjam: you can filter by http and see if the deployed node is attempting to contact MAAS. just to verify, which version of MAAS do you have installed?
[01:55] <f1gjam> no issues with that i can put it on dropbox
[01:56] <mpontillo> cool
[01:56] <mpontillo> I might not be able to dig into it until next week though
[01:56] <f1gjam> sure
[01:56] <f1gjam> where are you ?? in the world i mean
[01:56] <mpontillo> california
[01:56] <f1gjam> h wow
[01:56] <f1gjam> i go there all the time
[01:56] <f1gjam> Newark
[01:56] <f1gjam> well once a quarter for work
[01:56] <f1gjam> :)
[01:57] <mpontillo> ah cool, never been there
[01:57] <f1gjam> well its near SF
[01:57] <mpontillo> oh, yeah, well I've been in the area. I live near Sacramento but I used to work in SF a couple days per week
[01:58] <f1gjam> yeah sacremento is far from there
[01:58] <f1gjam> i havent had a chacne to go there yet
[01:58] <f1gjam> been LA
[01:58] <f1gjam> and to
[01:58] <mpontillo> too hot. I don't recommend it =)
[01:58] <mpontillo> cheaper housing though
[01:58] <f1gjam> ssualito
[01:59] <f1gjam> yes very hot in LA
[01:59] <f1gjam> but it was a tick in the box
[02:00]  * mpontillo -> afk (good luck with MAAS, sorry it isn't going more smoothly!)
[02:00] <f1gjam> ill cathch you next week :)
[03:08] <f1gjam> mpontillo, i know your gone, but i wanted to let you know it WORKED!!!!
[03:09] <f1gjam> its 4am here in UK so im going to sleep :) satisfied. thanks for your help. I will create updated docs which might be helpful to post somewhere, if you can recommended where that is. thanks again
[11:59] <f1gjam> mpontillo, feature request - https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1596287
[12:22] <mup> Bug #1596287 opened: Feature request Installation tracking via MaaS <MAAS:New> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1596287>
[15:28] <f1gjam> mpontillo, almost worked, landscape installed failed. I am now going to try out Ubuntu 16.04 with MaaS 2.0 - since i have the install working im guessing its better to try the latest version
[16:04] <f1gjam> mpontillo, just incase - this is the network layout - https://screencloud.net/v/jsk7
[17:46] <f1gjam> updated screenshot: https://screencloud.net/v/v5ms
[18:06] <mpontillo> f1gjam: as far as I know, landscape does not work with MAAS 2.0 yet =( ... the API in MAAS is different.
[18:06] <mpontillo> f1gjam: what was the issue with landscape?
[18:17] <f1gjam> let me paste the error
[18:19] <f1gjam> http://paste.ubuntu.com/17924168/
[18:19] <f1gjam> and
[18:19] <f1gjam> sorry thats the error
[18:19] <f1gjam> ive now installed 16.04
[18:19] <f1gjam> and trying to get it to install autopilot
[18:19] <f1gjam> going to kick off install now
[18:20] <f1gjam> might go abck to 14.04
[18:20] <f1gjam> especially if you are saying landscape doesnt work with 2.0
[18:21] <f1gjam> mpontillo, do you work for canonical?
[18:29] <f1gjam> quick question, is there a way to point ubuntu cd installer to a http://kickstart file which will just pass all the parameters needed for install? secondly is there an auto generated kickstart file located on the box installed manually?
[18:58] <mpontillo> f1gjam: yes, I work for Canonical on the MAAS team. ;-) not sure about kickstart (thought that was a RH thing), MAAS used to support a way to install Ubuntu using the Debian installer, but it's much slower
[18:59] <f1gjam> well, is there anyway to do a similar thing to kickstart :)
[19:00] <f1gjam> the reason i asked if you worked for canonical was because i wanted to ask about the docs, which all seem to be out of date. It takes too much effort to install everything correctly
[19:44] <mpontillo> f1gjam: yeah we are planning on improving the docs for the next release... sorry for the inconvenience
[19:47] <f1gjam> mpontillo, its cool, if i have this working, i can help :)
[19:47] <mpontillo> f1gjam: are you installing Ubuntu to metal or a VM? If a VM, I would use the cloud image and the local cloud-init provider
[19:47] <f1gjam> metal
[19:47] <f1gjam> I have 3 * HP110 G6 severs and 2 * Lenovo TS140 Servers
[19:47] <f1gjam> all of them have 3 network cards
[19:48] <f1gjam> 1 * 64GB USB and 1 * 250GB or greater HDD
[19:48] <mpontillo> f1gjam: thanks; if you find errors in the docs and want to send us some minor patches, I'm sure it would be appreciated.
[19:48] <f1gjam> well I am going to create a new one from scratch
[19:49] <f1gjam> There are things which need more explanation
[19:49] <f1gjam> but that would be easier to discuss on a skype call
[19:49] <f1gjam> especially the networking pieces
[19:50] <f1gjam> ok - so just finishing off setting up 14.04 with MaaS for like the 20th time :)
[19:52] <mpontillo> f1gjam: thanks for any feedback you can provide!
[19:52] <f1gjam> no worries :)
[19:52] <f1gjam> next time im out in California
[19:53] <f1gjam> we should meet up :)
[19:58] <mpontillo> Let me know - I'm often busy with family so no guarantees.
[19:59] <f1gjam> yeah no worries, it was supposed to be in July
[19:59] <f1gjam> but not 100%
[20:26] <f1gjam> would be great if you could choose which hdd to commission on, however you have to commission for it to detect the drives then recommission
[20:49] <mpontillo> f1gjam: commissioning does not touch your drive at all. It boots a read only image over iscsi with an overlayfs
[20:53] <f1gjam> well, how do i get it to use USB - you only get to choose after you have done commissioning
[20:53] <f1gjam> then when you - recommission it shows as the usb drive with the parition
[21:29] <mpontillo> f1gjam: you can configure the storage layout any way you want after it commissions. MAAS resets the storage layout to default upon recommissioning (though it can optionally retain it)
[21:30] <mpontillo> f1gjam: in other words, delete the filesystem and configure the volumes/partitions to your liking after you commission.
[21:30] <f1gjam> ah i see
[21:30] <f1gjam> well i just wanted it to use USB whole
[21:30] <f1gjam> and not touch the slow hd
[21:30] <f1gjam> as i want that for ceph
[21:32] <mpontillo> f1gjam: you should be able to configure it to do that.
[21:32] <f1gjam> yeah, as you said after commisson
[21:32] <f1gjam> that makes sense. The way i was thinking it worked wasnt the case
[21:33] <f1gjam> need some more clarification :)
[21:33] <f1gjam> ill try and write up a list of stuff
[21:33] <f1gjam> and ping it over
[21:33] <f1gjam> tht might be better
[21:33] <f1gjam> im really good at making things idiot proofish
[21:37] <mpontillo> f1gjam: thanks!
[21:37]  * mpontillo -> afk
[23:24] <ccit-spence> Is it ok to use MAAS within a vCenter / vSphere setup?