Having trouble with your foreman installation where machines aren't marked as "built"? You probably deleted the PXE Local Default file and now things silently crash. There's a bug report about it here.
When it happens you'll get a message like this in /var/log/foreman/production.log:
The solution is to create a template named "PXE Localboot Default". This is case sensitive so don't fat finger it! This template is applied to each host after the build process is complete.
By the way, the build process is completely when you're host sends this:
When it happens you'll get a message like this in /var/log/foreman/production.log:
Started GET "/unattended/built" for 10.8.0.205 at Wed Jun 12 19:00:16 -0400 2013 Processing by UnattendedController#built as Found swift-store-05.va.moz.local unattended: swift-store-05.va.moz.local is Built! Add the TFTP configuration for swift-store-05.va.moz.local Failed to generate PXELinux template: undefined method `template' for nil:NilClass Delete the autosign entry for swift-store-05.va.moz.local Rolling back due to a problem: Adding autosign entry for swift-store-05.va.moz.local Delete the TFTP configuration for swift-store-05.va.moz.local Completed 409 Conflict in 301ms
The solution is to create a template named "PXE Localboot Default". This is case sensitive so don't fat finger it! This template is applied to each host after the build process is complete.
By the way, the build process is completely when you're host sends this:
You can create the file from scratch. The default one usually works fine/usr/bin/wget --quiet --output-document=/dev/null --no-check-certificate <%= foreman_url %>
DEFAULT menu PROMPT 0 MENU TITLE PXE Menu TIMEOUT 200 TOTALTIMEOUT 6000 ONTIMEOUT local LABEL local MENU LABEL (local) MENU DEFAULT LOCALBOOT 0
