Hi. I’m hoping for some help with a commissioning problem I’m having. When I have a new machine that I would like MaaS to see, I start by PXE booting the node. It gets a DHCP address from MaaS, comes up for the first time, begins commissioning, and eventually shuts down. At this point, MaaS shows most of the Commissioning tasks as Pending (with the exception of 30-maas-01-bmc-config which is Passed). And the node stays off forever. Unsure of what to do at this point, I PXE boot it again. It boots, does nothing, and then shuts back down again, and the commissioning tasks in MaaS remain Pending.
At this point, there are two things I can do that will make it succeed, but neither of them are ideal:
- Eventually (I’m not sure how long - maybe 30 minutes) the Pending tasks Time Out. At this point, I can request (through “Take Action”) for it to Commission again. This will cause it to boot the machine and the commissioning will succeed.
- The other way is to Delete the machine from MaaS and try the whole process over again. This time it will succeed.
Of the three hosts that I have tried to commission in the last two days, this exact same thing has happened on all of them. It tries to commission them the first time but gets stuck in Pending and eventually times out. I have hundreds more hosts that I will eventually need to bring into MaaS, so I want to find a better way around this problem. The two solutions that I noted above will take far too long if I have to do it every single time. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.