install foreman on ubuntu 12.04 part1

Here’s an explanation of how to install foreman on ubuntu 12.04.

just referred to http://theforeman.org/manuals/1.1/index.html#2.Quickstart

many thanks!

logs including trial and error.

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS" root@ubuntu-foreman:~# uname -ri 3.2.0-39-generic x86_64

before installing foreman , install puppet.

# apt-get install -y puppet root@ubuntu-foreman:~# echo "deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ precise stable" > /e tc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list root@ubuntu-foreman:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/foreman.list deb http://deb.theforeman.org/ precise stable root@ubuntu-foreman:~# wget -q http://deb.theforeman.org/foreman.asc -O- | apt-key add – root@ubuntu-foreman:~# apt-get update;apt-get install foreman-installer -y

install foreman

error

oot@ubuntu-foreman:~# ruby /usr/share/foreman-installer/generate_answers.rb Welcome to the Foreman Installer! --------------------------------- This installer will help you set up Foreman and the associated extra configuration necessary to get you up and running. There is an interactive shell which will ask you questions, but if you just want to get up and running as fast as possible, answer 'yes' to the all-in-one install at the beginning Ready to start? (y/n) y Do you want to use the default all-in-one setup? This will configure Foreman, Foreman-Proxy, Puppet (including a puppetmaster), several puppet environments, TFTP (for provisioning) and sudo (for puppet certificate management) (y/n) y Do you want to run Puppet now with these settings? (y/n) y warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn Failed to parse template foreman/foreman-vhost.conf.erb: Could not find value for 'fqdn' at 4:/usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman/templates/foreman-vhost.conf.erb at /usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman/manifests/config/passenger.pp:7 on node ubuntu-foreman Okay, you're all set! Check /usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman_installer/answers.yaml for your config. You can apply it in the future as root with:  echo include foreman_installer | puppet apply --modulepath /usr/share/foreman-installer -v

domain is not configured..

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# hostname –fqdn ubuntu-foreman root@ubuntu-foreman:~# hostname --doain root@ubuntu-foreman:~#

edit hosts file and reboot the OS

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1       localhost #127.0.1.1      ubuntu-foreman 127.0.1.1       ubuntu-foreman.localdomain ubuntu-foreman root@ubuntu-foreman:~# cat /etc/hostname ubuntu-foreman # reboot

after rebooting the OS

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# hostname --domain localdomain root@ubuntu-foreman:~# hostname --fqdn ubuntu-foreman.localdomain

still face the same error..

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# echo include foreman_installer | puppet apply --modulepath /usr/share/foreman-installer -v warning: Could not retrieve fact fqdn Failed to parse template foreman/foreman-vhost.conf.erb: Could not find value for 'fqdn' at 4:/usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman/templates/foreman-vhost.conf.erb at /usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman/manifests/config/passenger.pp:7 on node ubuntu-foreman

how about this ?

add “domain localdomain” in resolv.conf

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 127.0.0.1 domain localdomain

Okay.

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# ruby /usr/share/foreman-installer/generate_answers.rb --v erbose Welcome to the Foreman Installer! --------------------------------- This installer will help you set up Foreman and the associated extra configuration necessary to get you up and running. There is an interactive shell which will ask you questions, but if you just want to get up and running as fast as possible, answer 'yes' to the all-in-one install at the beginning Ready to start? (y/n) y Do you want to use the default all-in-one setup? This will configure Foreman, Foreman-Proxy, Puppet (including a puppetmaster), several puppet environments, TFTP (for provisioning) and sudo (for puppet certificate management) (y/n) y Do you want to run Puppet now with these settings? (y/n) y info: Applying configuration version '1363687657' <snip> cause of failed dependencies info: Creating state file /var/lib/puppet/state/state.yaml notice: Finished catalog run in 148.98 seconds Okay, you're all set! Check /usr/share/foreman-installer/foreman_installer/answers.yaml for your config. You can apply it in the future as root with:  echo include foreman_installer | puppet apply --modulepath /usr/share/foreman-installer -v root@ubuntu-foreman:~# echo $? 0 root@ubuntu-foreman:~#

start foreman

error

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# /etc/init.d/foreman start foreman not configured to start. Please edit /etc/default/foreman to enable.

edit /etc/default/foreman

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# cat /etc/default/foreman ### File managed with puppet ### ## Served by:        'undefined' ## Module:           'foreman' ## Template source:  'MODULES/foreman/templates/foreman.default.erb' # Start foreman on boot? #START=no START=yes <snip>

start foreman

root@ubuntu-foreman:~# /etc/init.d/foreman restart * Restarting  foreman                                                          Libvirt binding are missing - hypervisor management is disabled                                                                         [ OK ]

access to the foreman with browser

https://<foreman IP>

user : admin

password : changeme

I have not installed foreman-xx packages yet.

so the next step is configuring these packages to manage hypervisor machines.

# apt-cache search foreman foreman-compute - metapackage providing fog dependencies for Foreman (for Amazon EC2 support) foreman-console - metapackage providing console dependencies for Foreman foreman-devel - metapackage providing development dependencies for Foreman foreman-fog - metapackage providing fog dependencies for Foreman (for Amazon EC2 support) foreman-installer - no description given foreman-libvirt - metapackage providing libvirt dependencies for Foreman foreman-mysql2 - metapackage providing mysql2 dependencies for Foreman foreman-mysql - metapackage providing MySQL dependencies for Foreman foreman-ovirt - metapackage providing ovirt dependencies for Foreman foreman-pgsql - metapackage providing PostgreSQL dependencies for Foreman foreman-postgresql - metapackage providing PostgreSQL dependencies for Foreman foreman-proxy - RESTful proxies for DNS, DHCP, TFTP, and Puppet foreman-sqlite3 - metapackage providing sqlite dependencies for Foreman foreman-test - metapackage providing test dependencies for Foreman foreman-vmware - metapackage providing vmware dependencies for Foreman foreman - Systems management web interface