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["Andrew Brown" <andyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Julian

 

A very quick reply to say thank you for your response and to let you know that the mass.ubuntu.com support pages, at first glance, seem far superior to how they use to be. I am sure I will have far greater success in attempting to install maas, this time around.

 

Again, thank.

 

Andrew

 

From: maas-devel-bounces+andyb=swissmail.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:maas-devel-bounces+andyb=swissmail.org@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julian Edwards
Sent: 21 January 2013 18:16
To: maas-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Arbit_Chen@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Maas-devel] Using MAAS without creating a new DHCP server.

 

On Monday 21 Jan 2013 18:00:50 Arbit_Chen@xxxxxxx <mailto: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