Installation woes: dhcp...Failed!

[JJ Fullmer]

@george1421 said:

ok then lets confirm a few things.

You want FOG to be the dhcp server for your subnet?

Just so you know. The reason I chose not to use DHCP with FOG is because I had the mistaken assumption that FOG would automatically manage it in some way, or that the gui would have some control over it. It does not, you’ll be doing a bunch of manual configuration. It added some small configuration and did get it passing out ip addresses, which may be enough for you. But just be aware that you’ll likely have to do some more manual configuration of the DHCP. Not that that is all that hard nor undocumented on the internet, just wanted to make sure you’re aware.

[kbramhall]

@Arrowhead-IT Unfortunately that failed as well. I’m thinking there may be an underlying networking issue that I’ll work on with our networking team. Either way even if dhcp isn’t running on this server shouldn’t I still be able to get to http://xxx/xxx/xxx/fog ?

[JJ Fullmer]

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[george1421]

@kbramhall If fog doesn’t fully setup the first time then no it will not display the console login.

I would suggest that you go back from the beginning and select no for dns and no for dhcp. You can set those up later if you really need them. The packages are downloaded and installed then the database is configured then the apache settings are configured.

[Wayne Workman]

@Arrowhead-IT said:

Just so you know. The reason I chose not to use DHCP with FOG is because I had the mistaken assumption that FOG would automatically manage it in some way, or that the gui would have some control over it. It does not, you’ll be doing a bunch of manual configuration.

I guess now is as good a time as ever to say I’m working on an add-on that does just this.

[Tom Elliott]

I still feel this needs to be addressed.
@Wayne-Workman said:

@kbramhall Isolated subnet? Does it have an internet connection?

[kbramhall]

@george1421 I’ll give that a shot. Thanks

[kbramhall]

@Arrowhead-IT That is good to know. I am pretty sure all we need is to push IPs from a given IP pool to each of these devices.

[Tom Elliott]

@kbramhall All of this banter is going to go nowhere if the network you’re trying to install this thru does not have Internet access.

[kbramhall]

@Tom-Elliott If the FOG server is on-net with the devices won’t that make an internet connection unnecessary?

[Tom Elliott]

@kbramhall YEs, but not during the installation process.

The installer needs to download the files to do the install to begin with.

[kbramhall]

@Tom-Elliott The CentOS machine currently has internet access that’s how I downloaded the installer.

[Tom Elliott]

I’m confused.

Are you downloading the installer, then disconnecting internet?

[Tom Elliott]

Basically,

Does the internet work? Is it installing other packages, but failing to install dhcp?

I need clear concise answers.

Forgive my methods, but understand:

The CentOS machine has internet, it’s how I downloaded the installer, vs. The FOG Server is on Net with the clients, is not concise.

I’m assuming, at this point, the CentOS machine you are referring to is the same as your FOG Server?

[kbramhall]

@Tom-Elliott Sorry about that. Yes, the CentOS server is the what we’re running FOG on. I’ll just say FOG server moving forward to avoid any confusion. Yes it is successfully downloading other packages (httpd, php, php-cli, php-common, etc) but is not downloading the dhcp package. It has internet connectivity and will for the remainder of the setup. Once everything is up and running we’ll remove the internet connection and put it on an isolated subnet physically connected to the devices it needs to connect to.

[kbramhall]

@Tom-Elliott I attempted to go through the installer and saying no to DHCP and DNS but if failed to install tftp-server this time. Attached is the foginstall.log file.0_1450298881023_foginstall.log

[george1421]

To not add too much more noise to this thread. It looks like yum isn’t able to resolve the external repositories dns names.

On this fog server, you set a static IP address, did you remember to update /etc/resolv.conf with the DNS servers the FOG server will use to query for internet names?

Since you have direct internet access can you ping www.google.com? Or one of the repositories mirrors.gigenet.com?

[JJ Fullmer]

@kbramhall Considering that you only just set this up, maybe it’s worth trying a different distro. I’ve had better experiences with ubuntu server and fog then cent OS. But I am more familiar with debian so I might be biased.
But maybe it’s an issue with the OS install.
What happens when you run

yum update

?
If that doesn’t seem to connect to anything, then
What does your resolv.conf say?

cat /etc/resolv.conf

Might be a dns server thing. That’s sometimes the issue when you can’t seem to install a package

[Wayne Workman]

@george1421 @Arrowhead-IT Good point. Right now I think we’ve got it narrowed down to either a DNS issue or a proxy issue.

[JJ Fullmer]

@Wayne-Workman said:

@Arrowhead-IT said:

Just so you know. The reason I chose not to use DHCP with FOG is because I had the mistaken assumption that FOG would automatically manage it in some way, or that the gui would have some control over it. It does not, you’ll be doing a bunch of manual configuration.

I guess now is as good a time as ever to say I’m working on an add-on that does just this.

@Wayne-Workman ooooh! I like that idea!