FAQ
Version 12 (Ohad Levy, 09/09/2009 01:27 pm)
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| 3 | 12 | Ohad Levy | h1. I'm not using Storeconfigs, how can I still use Foreman? |
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| 5 | 12 | Ohad Levy | Foreman does not require puppet storeconfigs, however, Foreman can work with puppet db schema natively as Foreman extends it. |
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| 7 | 1 | If you just want to import hosts inventory (facts), you can use the rake task: |
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| 8 | 1 | <pre>RAILS_ENV=production rake puppet:import:hosts_and_facts</pre> |
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| 9 | 1 | This will import your exists facts yaml file (defaults to vardir/yaml/facts), if you wish to import from another directory use: |
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| 10 | 1 | <pre>RAILS_ENV=production rake puppet:import:hosts_and_facts dir=/my/dir/with/yaml/files</pre> |
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| 12 | 1 | *NOTE:* its probably a good idea to clean up your yaml file directory, as you might have a lot of old data in there. |
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| 14 | 12 | Ohad Levy | h1. I'm using Storeconfigs, how can I populate various settings in Foreman that are required for hands free (unattended) installations? |
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| 16 | 1 | <pre>RAILS_ENV=production rake puppet:migrate:populate_hosts</pre> |
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| 17 | 12 | Ohad Levy | This will try to auto-generate all operating systems, puppet environments etc into Foreman's DB. |
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| 19 | 5 | Ohad Levy | h1. How do I use unattended installations (Kickstart, jumpstart, preseed)? |
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| 21 | 1 | see [[Unattended installations]] |
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| 23 | 12 | Ohad Levy | h1. How do I use Foreman with Puppet external nodes? |
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| 25 | 1 | see [[External Nodes]] |
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| 27 | 1 | h1. Where is the DB?! |
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| 29 | 12 | Ohad Levy | By default, Foreman will use sqlite3 as a database, its configuration can be found at |
| 30 | 1 | <pre>config/database.yml</pre> |
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| 31 | 1 | By default, the database can be found at the db subdirectory. |
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| 32 | 12 | Ohad Levy | Foreman is a rails application, therefor, anything that is supported under RAILS (sqlite, mysql, postsql, oracle etc) can be used. |
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| 34 | 5 | Ohad Levy | h1. What about other operating systems? |
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| 36 | 12 | Ohad Levy | Foreman currently supports RedHat/Fedora, Debian/Ubuntu and Solaris Jumpstart |
| 37 | 1 | it has been successfully tested on CentOS 3,4,5 Fedora 10-11, Ubuntu 9.04 and Solaris 8-10 on Sparc. |
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| 39 | 12 | Ohad Levy | If you have any other operating system you would like to see added to Foreman, please contact us and we would be happy to add it. |
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| 41 | 1 | for Jumpstart support, as Solaris doesn't support nativity accessing the profile data dynamically, its required to create some workarounds |
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| 42 | 1 | example for those are found at the *extras/jumpstart* directory. |
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| 43 | 1 | You may find the dynamic profile and dynamic finish at the following URL's: |
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| 44 | 12 | Ohad Levy | <pre><code>http://Foremanhost:3000/unattended/jumpstart_profile |
| 45 | 12 | Ohad Levy | http://Foremanhost:3000/unattended/jumpstart_finish</code></pre> |
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| 47 | 1 | It is also required to add vendor options to your dhcp server if you plan to boot from network on the sparc platform. |
