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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 Jan 2013 18:00:50 Arbit_Chen@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Maas-Devels,
> 
> I would like to build a MAAS controller server (Ubuntu 12.04 server version)
> in order to deploy 2 other servers under a same LAN. Three of the servers
> contain static IPs from an existing DHCP server. The problem is that
> neither can I set up a DHCP server nor can I change ANY settings of the
> existing DHCP server. Therefore, I did not install maas-dhcp and maas-dns
> package while the MAAS installation. After configuring all of the MAAS
> server settings, I added nodes (2 other servers) with the MAAS web
> interface. The status of the nodes stuck on “Commissioning” and neither of
> them started to boot. I have already checked the BIOS time of each server
> and the time of each node is almost sync. I am not sure if there is any
> method to use MAAS without creating a new DHCP server.

Hello Arbit,

You are correct, MAAS requires the use of a DHCP server so that it can PXE 
boot the nodes.  If you cannot have a new DHCP server or configure an existing 
one then you cannot use MAAS.

Regards,
Julian