Functionality

[j-pavel]

I got this installed in Foreman 1.15.3... when I create a host, it submits successfully, and goes to a "pending installation" state in Foreman. Watching the logs, I see an immediate log message:

Failed to login via SSH to foreman-deployed.dev.mcs.az-eastus2.mob.nuance.com: ERF42-1994 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to find proper authentication method
| Foreman::Exception: ERF42-1994 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to find proper authentication method
| /usr/share/foreman/app/models/concerns/orchestration/ssh_provision.rb:53:in `setSSHWaitForResponse'

... is there some other setting necessary before the image can be deployed?

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If I recall correctly, this is due to one of two things:

1. Not setting the root username and password on the image
2. Foreman being unable to run commands as root after logging in, because it cannot handle the case when one must sudo su.

That second case is why I have all Azure images set as user data images, and use Azure custom script extensions to configure the hosts (there are fields during the host build for setting the URI and arguments to a script).

I should mention that I'm not completely sure whether Foreman is incapable of handling passing a password to sudo, because I ran into difficulties attempting to persuade it to do so, and just used custom script extensions instead

[j-pavel]

Does the SSH session get initiated from the foreman server, or is there logic somewhere to utilize a certain smart-proxy? We have our foreman server in a private datacenter, and a smart-proxy installation in Azure.

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It is initiated from the Foreman server

[j-pavel]

Thanks. I'd settle for it to get created at this point, even without a finishing script. Nothing is getting initiated in Azure, it seems, when I submit a request in Foreman. I'm not sure if my data doesn't line up with a valid request in fog so it's getting dropped there, or something else.

I have the same issue. It will successfully create in Foreman, but no machine is ever created at Azure.

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Can either of you attempt to create a machine, and dump the relevant portion of the logs somewhere I can see them?

All Azure-related events grepped by event ID (third column of production.log) attached from both of my Foremans.

foreman_logs.zip

Any luck here? I wanted to confirm that you could see the attachment.

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I can indeed see it, I'll go through it later this evening

No worries.... I just wanted to make sure I attached the file right... upload form was being odd yesterday.

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@Jas612 It looks from your logs like you don't have any finish templates configured, and it's erroring on that. That said, this plugin does not play well with finish templates, because I could not find a way to get Foreman to sudo when attempting to run the finishing script.

The way I've been using this is to mark all Azure templates as user data templates, and pass a script to the Azure custom script extension. There are fields for doing this during VM provisioning.

This fails me. See the attached image where I edit the OS to just use a user data template, and then the new error I get on creating a host. Why is it demanding a finish template still, when the OS doesn't have it defined?

[j-pavel]

Similar to @Jas612, I'm trying to figure out what I'm missing. Right now, my scripts are all blank (I'm just trying to get this created), but I defined one of each type - a User data, Finish, iPXE, Provisioning, and PXELinux.

When I define a host, if I don't have a "Finishing" template linked for the OS, I get the error jas612 shows above. If I link a template (in my case here a blank one), I get logged immediately upon saving the host:
2017-09-12 13:46:42 6924f7b0 [templates] [I] Rendering template 'Azure Finishing Script'
2017-09-12 13:46:42 6924f7b0 [app] [W] Failed to login via SSH to foreman-deployed.prod.mcs.az-eastus2.mob.com: ERF42-1994 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to find proper authentication method
| Foreman::Exception: ERF42-1994 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to find proper authentication method

Is my problem that my finishing template is blank? Is there some template you can share to help this deployment succeed?

I'm now to the same place as @j-pavel is:

foreman-01 ~ [atl] # egrep -i '918814bd' ssh /var/log/foreman/production.log grep: ssh: No such file or directory /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Started POST "/hosts" for 172.24.107.78 at 2017-09-12 11:48:42 -0400 /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Processing by HostsController#create as */* /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Parameters: {"utf8"=>"✓", "authenticity_token"=>"79rZ+IaGbjMZxicJkoOggmmWAxjUjv0XRqCHeRv5Po0MhwuqTOLoVQFRes3BA5w6jZ9DgaW/NoJHu733GfnbWA==", "host"=>{"name"=>"foreman-proxy-01", "hostgroup_id"=>"623", "compute_resource_id"=>"11", "puppetclass_ids"=>[""], "managed"=>"true", "progress_report_id"=>"[FILTERED]", "type"=>"Host::Managed", "interfaces_attributes"=>{"0"=>{"_destroy"=>"0", "type"=>"Nic::Managed", "mac"=>"", "identifier"=>"", "name"=>"foreman-proxy-01", "domain_id"=>"22", "subnet_id"=>"59", "ip"=>"", "ip6"=>"", "managed"=>"0", "primary"=>"1", "provision"=>"1", "virtual"=>"0", "tag"=>"", "attached_to"=>"", "compute_attributes"=>{"network"=>"/subscriptions/d0e3c7e5-1e22-4823-89c9-b23d268ca4a5/resourceGroups/Linux/providers/Microsoft.Network/virtualNetworks/US_East2_Linux_172.28.96.0-19/subnets/US_East_2_Linux_Tools_Management", "bridge"=>"None", "name"=>"false"}}}, "compute_attributes"=>{"location"=>"East US 2", "resource_group"=>"Linux", "vm_size"=>"Basic_A0", "platform"=>"Linux", "username"=>"rentpath", "password"=>"[FILTERED]", "ssh_key_data"=>"", "os_disk_size"=>"", "premium_os_disk"=>"false", "os_disk_caching"=>"None", "puppet_master"=>"", "script_command"=>"/root/post_prov.sh", "script_uris"=>"", "image_id"=>"/subscriptions/d0e3c7e5-1e22-4823-89c9-b23d268ca4a5/resourceGroups/Linux/providers/Microsoft.Compute/images/scilinux73-useast2"}, "architecture_id"=>"1", "operatingsystem_id"=>"15", "provision_method"=>"image", "build"=>"1", "medium_id"=>"11", "ptable_id"=>"55", "pxe_loader"=>"", "disk"=>"", "root_pass"=>"[FILTERED]", "is_owned_by"=>"54-Users", "enabled"=>"1", "model_id"=>"", "comment"=>"", "overwrite"=>"false"}, "capabilities"=>"image", "provider"=>"AzureRM", "bare_metal_capabilities"=>"build"} /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Current user: jstewart (administrator) /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [templates] [I] Rendering template 'Azure Finish' /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [W] Failed to login via SSH to foreman-proxy-01.tools.useast2.azure.rentpath.com: ERF42-1994 [Foreman::Exception]: Unable to find proper authentication method /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Redirected to https://foreman.vip.atl.primedia.com/hosts/foreman-proxy-01.tools.useast2.azure.rentpath.com /var/log/foreman/production.log:2017-09-12 11:48:42 918814bd [app] [I] Completed 302 Found in 561ms (ActiveRecord: 42.0ms) foreman-01 ~ [atl] #

Any luck?