sdc-booter

This repository is part of the Triton Data Center project. See the contribution guidelines and general documentation at the main Triton project page.

This repository contains the DHCP server and related libraries used to boot compute nodes. Its contents end up in the dhcpd zone on the headnode.

Repository

bin/            executables to be installed in the zone
bin/dhcpd       the actual daemon script
build/          build artifacts
    node/       booter ships its own copy of node (so it remains
                independent of the dataset version)
build/pkg       all files to be installed into the zone go here to be
                tarred up
deps/           git submodules get cloned here
lib/            source files
node_modules/   node.js deps, installed from npm
smf/manifests   SMF manifests
test/           test suite (run with `make test`)
tools/          miscellaneous dev/upgrade/deployment tools and data.
server.js       the main entry point for the server

Development

The simplest way to test modifications to this code is to manually copy the changed files into the dhcpd zone on a headnode.

Before checking in, please run:

make prepush

and fix any warnings or errors. Note that jsstyle will stop after the first file with an error, so you may need to run this multiple times while fixing.

To only run the jsstyle / jslint checks:

make check

Testing

To run all tests:

make test

To run a single test:

./node_modules/.bin/tape <test>

Configuration

Booter supports a few SAPI configuration values:

• http_pxe_boot: if set to true, allow iPXE clients to pull down their files via HTTP rather than TFTP. This is the default.
• compute_node_default_gateway: set this to give Compute Nodes a default gateway
• dhcp_lease_time: DHCP lease time for Compute Nodes
• allow_missing_class_id: booter only allows clients with class identifiers of "PXEClient" and "SUNW" to obtain IP addresses. This allows clients with a missing class ID to also get IPs (useful for mock cloud testing).
• chainload_grub: In the past, the "pxegrub" boot loader was sent to PXE clients booting from the ROM of a network card. If your system has trouble with the iPXE binary ("undionly.kpxe") we now send to servers, you can revert to the legacy grub loader by setting this option to true.

To update any of the above values, use the SAPI tools. For example, in the Global Zone:

dhcpd_svc=$(sdc-sapi /services?name=dhcpd | json -Ha uuid)
sapiadm update $dhcpd_svc metadata.http_pxe_boot=false