Problem with HTTPS upgrade
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@sbenson
I just went through this exact process to get HTTPS working for my fog deployment. One of the more helpful things, especially for where you are at right now, was to enable debugging on the ipxe build as the file not found error was due to a couple of other issues related to the certificate. Additionally, although it shouldn’t have been necessary, building the CA certificate into the ipxe build solved another issue I had with it. To do the above, using Tom’s script, you would pass CERT and DEBUG to it like so (I used my own CA cert and not the FOG one, so the paths were different for me, but should be correct for you. Additionally, tls is likely the only debug option that you might need, but just in case I included the others):/root/buildIPXE CERT=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem TRUST=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem DEBUG=tls,x509,certstoreOnce built, you’ll of course need to reinstall FOG with the new build. When the client boots, it should give you much more insight into what is happening and why it is reporting the file cannot be found (assuming building in the cert doesn’t solve the issue you’re having). Once it booted, I ran into an issue with the check-in script not understanding the HTTPS redirect, but this is resolved in the working version now (I’m personally on the current release version, with some custom changes that are already in the working version).
Hope it helps.
EDIT: Oh, should probably also point out that if you do try this and eventually get it working, removing the debugging after would be a good idea so your systems don’t spew out debug text on boot.
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@bmcalister Thank you, I’m not familiar with the process to build in certificates to this helps me out just as much as the community as a whole. I didn’t even know there was a CERT argument that could be passed in.
@sbenson Hopefully this helps you too and sorry I didn’t know about this sooner.
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@bmcalister Well guess what, it’s working now. Something in the
/root/buildIPXE CERT=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem TRUST=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem DEBUG=tls,x509,certstorefixed it. So, turning debugging off might not work. Deploying an image now to see if that works, which seems to be working.
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@tom-elliott said in Problem with HTTPS upgrade:
CERT argument
Oh I am so over this issue i am blindly copying and pasting commands that look correct at first glance. I totally missed the CERT= argument
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Here’s something else I have found now. Deploying an image is going at 127MB/min, where previously it was going at 8GB/min
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@sbenson Maybe a fluke? Mind restarting the fog server see if it helps out a little?
I doubt there’s anything else causing it as the init’s have nothing to do with the network boot process (after iPXE releases the init’s and kernels) which hasn’t changed beyond the change to actually follow the redirects back to the fog server in https mode as required.
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@tom-elliott I will reboot it(its a VM), but I also attempted to register a host and it didn’t work 3 times.
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@sbenson No Viable mac’s to use… hmmmm. I’ll take a quick look for that.
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So the No Viable mac’s to use comes from the host page when it’s attempting to add the primary mac to the host. I know this portion works as I have deregistered and registered multiple hosts even in the latest working tree. Do you have MAC Filters setup that maybe this machine’s mac address is being filtered out before it gets a chance to use it?
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@tom-elliott No, no mac filters setup, this is a new laptop that I have been testing only with fog. I just rebooted the server, and now its going at ~1GB/min
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@sbenson Maybe patch cable is iffy? There’s really loads of variables that can cause speed issues and nothing has been changed in regards to partclone with the exception of hfsplus to patch a 32 bit integer overflow potential. So if it’s going so slow I would say start by checking the network cable, switch it’s connected to, etc…
I don’t know anything else on the server beyond image replication, but that only occurs if you have multiple storage nodes (which I’m just guessing you don’t at this point).
The no suitable mac’s issue might be due to the https switchover, though everything else appears to be working as expected. I know the mac address is “usable” so I’ll see what I can do to try to replicate it.
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@tom-elliott I’ll swap it out for another, it was working fine the last time I imaged a machine. I’ll let you know
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@sbenson Nope still slow
EDIT: New patch, 3 different ports. Could it be because the content wasn’t actually over https previously… Registering still doesn’t work. Though I am still working off of the “Working” trunk. I will try 1.5.0 RC8 tomorrow with the debugging turned off.
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Updates, the fix for enabling https works
./buildIpxe CERT=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem TRUST=/var/www/fog/management/other/ca.cert.pem DEBUG=tls,x509,certstoreLet me just give you a rundown of everything that happened.
Yesterday
Fog 1.5.0 RC7 With SSL with ipxe built with CERT and DEBUG
Image deploy: 1GB/min(Slow)
Host registration failsThis morning
Fog 1.5.0 RC8 without SSL with ipxe built with CERT
Host registration succeded(PC-45)
Image deploy: 8.25GB/minFog 1.5.0 RC8 With SSL with ipxe built with CERT
registration detection fails(doesn’t see that it is PC-45)
Host registration fails
attempting to deploy and it takes the username/pass and just drops me back to fogIf you want any more information I can test this all
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@tom-elliott any update?
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@sbenson I am sorry for taking so long to answer. Other things kept popping up and so I didn’t get to sit down and rework this from scratch. I’ve done it now and pushed a couple of fixes that make the installer do a proper job setting FOG up with SSL. I also added a script that does the iPXE compiling for you. Tom and I are still working on nicely integrating this with the installer.
Not much news for you so far I am afraid. So now I can actually get to what’s bugging you. The speed issue. I’ll look into this fairly soon! Promise!
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Ok lets try to get this sorted…
@sbenson said:
Let me just give you a rundown of everything that happened.
Yesterday
Fog 1.5.0 RC7 With SSL with ipxe built with CERT and DEBUG
Image deploy: 1GB/min(Slow)
Host registration failsThis is not nice but I can’t see the connection between either RC version or SSL iPXE to a slower deploy speed (which is simply a point of NFS or udp-cast if you do multicast). I’ve just done capture and deploy test (1.5.0 RC8) in my VM environment (SSL iPXE) and I get around 4-5 GB/min which I think is ok as all the VMs are running on a lenovo laptop - no server hardware or anything.
This morning
Fog 1.5.0 RC8 without SSL with ipxe built with CERT
Host registration succeded(PC-45)
Image deploy: 8.25GB/minFine, that’s good.
Fog 1.5.0 RC8 With SSL with ipxe built with CERT
registration detection fails(doesn’t see that it is PC-45)
Host registration fails
attempting to deploy and it takes the username/pass and just drops me back to fogYeah, sorry for that, we are still missing the HTTPS URL scheme in some places. But we’re getting there. You can download a patched version of the init.xz file here for now (SSL only!!!). But keep in mind that you need to put in that init.xz again after re-running the installer. Sorry for the inconvenience!
I’ll talk to @Tom-Elliott to add the fixes in the near future. The curl following redirects does not work as intended. See the manpage:
When curl follows a redirect and the request is not a plain GET (for example POST or PUT), it will do the following request with a GET if the HTTP response was 301, 302, or 303. If the response code was any other 3xx code, curl will re-send the following request using the same unmodified method. You can tell curl to not change the non-GET request method to GET after a 30x response by using the dedicated options for that: --post301, --post302 and -post303.Sure we could add the
--post302option as well but I’d think we better make all those URLs https:// instead of relying on the redirect (which costs an extra round trip anyway!). -
Marking this solved now as I have tested it and there hasn’t been any negative response to this so far.
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I know this is an old topic but as a friend of mine asked me about HTTPS in FOG recently I felt that I could update this thread again.
If you run the installer with
--force-httpsyou need to run another script afterwards to build the iPXE binaries and include your SSL certificates.cd /path/to/fogproject_gitrepo/bin ./installfog.sh --force-https ... cd ../utils/FOGiPXE ./buildipxe.sh ...
