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- Modify the BIOS including DHCP and PXE boot configuration by issuing Redfish API commands to the target server's iDRAC or iLO BMC
- Install and update an Ubuntu 16.04 operating system
- Install Network Cloud Regional Controller specific software including
- PostgreSQL DB
- Camunda Workflow and Decision Engine
- Akraino Web Portal
- LDAP configuration
- Install a number of supporting supplementary software components including
- OpenStack Tempest tests
- YAML builds
- ONAP scripts
- Sample VNFs
Preflight requirements
Networking
The target server must have connectivity to the internet to be able to download the necessary repos and packages during installation.
The build server must have IP connectivity to the target server's BMC port and the 'host' network.
The build server will usually act as the DHCP server for initial RC boot process thus must be in the same broadcast domain as the target RC. It is possible to remove the need for the build server and target server to be on the same L2 domain using features such as DHCP relay/helper functionality to relay the target server's DHCP requests across an IP routed network however this has not been verified in the R1 release and this guide assumes the build and target servers to be on the same L2 broadcast domain.
A detailed description of the entire networking setup can be found in the Network Architecture section of this release documentation <INSERT LINK>. In addition the networking configuration used in the validation labs is contained in the Validation Labs section of this release documentation <INSERT LINK>.
Software
Before starting to clone upstream repos and packages the build server must have the following pre-installed
- Ubuntu Release 16.04
- Latest version of the following apt packages:
- docker (used to run dhcp and web containers)
- python (used for redfish api calls to bare metal server)
- python-requests (used for redfish api calls to bare metal server)
- python-pip (used to install hpe redfish tools)
- sshpass (used to copy keys to new server)
- xorriso (used to extract Ubuntu files to web server)
- make (used to build custom ipxe efi file used during bare metal server boot)
- gcc (used to build custom ipxe efi file used during bare metal server boot)