MAAS's default setting: Machine's default Network should be IP mode DHCP

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Hello guys,
i have been using MAAS 3.4.4, and it is installed with SNAP. MAAS does not act as DHCP Server. therefore each time, when a machine is in state NEW, i must change the machine’s Network to DHCP (IP mode DHCP), as well as changing the Power configuration.

Is there anyway, that i change something somewhere in MAAS’s GUI or backend, that these two configurations should be done automatically?

Thanks for your ideas and support.

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Please refer to: https://maas.io/docs/how-to-enable-dhcp

You need a subnet to use as PXE boot subnet, which will allow to commissioning and deploying machines ( baremetal )

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Also, by experience, it could be a program or application already using the DHCP port
ss -ltpn | egrep ‘67/68’

From there, you are available to see the PID of the process using such port, and capable to determine further actions

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from 3.6 (we don’t have an ETA for the release yet) you will be able to set the global config default_boot_interface_link_type.

For example you will be able to set default_boot_interface_link_type=DHCP and have all the interfaces configured to DHCP automatically after commissioning.

For the power configuration by heart I think you should be able to do this by creating a custom commissioning script that is executed AFTER the 30-maas-01-bmc-config and that

  • reads the env variable BMC_CONFIG_PATH
  • writes a yaml config like here.

If you are going to try this, please report here if it worked