@vi4m yes that's what I did. I created a rack called something-floor
by the way guys. Why is it the nventory number required when adding Licenses? We don't have inventory numbers in our licenses
Anyone here using LDAP auth?
the docs say:
You will need to install pip install -r requirements/prod_ldap.txt. Then add LDAP as an authentication backend in your local settings:
Which local settings. which file?
there are some settings in /opt directory you can use
@vi4m under /opt I have 3 folders: media, ralph, static
no files under /opt
/opt/ralph/
@vi4m but which file contains the local settings?
I don't find any settings.py in any folder under /opt/ralph
unless I need to add the configuration in setup.py
Hi. I can't find any hint about supported configuration management systems, and how they can be integrated. Is that part missing in RalphNG?
Only found old issues on github which did not had the 'ng' tag attached.
Sorry, old issues regarding puppet :-)
modifying the setup.py file just broke my docker image. So that's not the way to configure LDAP AUth
So, anyone here using LDAP Auth in Ralph?
Against AD?
yes, there where some LDAP discussions on this channel (please search)
search on the channel? I searched online. I found the file, just having some problem with the filters
on this channel
i think @ziompaul was the guy who configured it recently
we use LDAP/AD all the time at Allegro as well
I already managed to connect with my AD server. But I am having problems setting up filters so it doesn't read all the users
AUTH_LDAP_USER_FILTER = '(|(memberOf=CN=_gr_ralph_group1,OU=something,'\
'DC=mygroup,DC=domain)(memberOf=CN=_gr_ralph_group2,OU=something else,'\
'DC=mygroups,DC=domain))'
@onibox are you refering to SCM status for dc assets?
@romcheg No. Beside other things it is said that Alegro is also a CMDB. I thought this stands for Configuration Management Data Base.
Yes it is CMDB :) it’s meant to be integrated with tools such as Puppet, Ansible
older versions of Ralph (2.x) was highly integrated with Puppet
so if you didn’t have something in Puppet, it wouldn’t show in Ralph
community didn’t like this behaviour, because sometimes you have assets outside of puppet territory (offline parts)
second reason we relaxed connections with SCM was - every puppet installation out there was highly customized by 3rd parties
so the idea is - you have ralph API, and ralph-cli (if you don’t like API), you can discover servers components (ram, operating system) through the Puppet DB API, and put it to ralph
of course, puppet cannot discover barcodes, positions(IPMI), so it’s only part of the story
@vi4m ok, thanks for the info. what is the status of an integration of CM support in RalphNG then?
how should it work, then? :) how do you see it ?
Hello, I have a little question, we've are setting up a test environment for ralph, all assets have been entered into ralph, so now we would like to test some freatures like export to a dhcp config, ldap, ... For dhcp, is the python script still usable to do an export and if so are there any requirements linked to this?
export to dhcp?
@diedrikvdd one question about LDAP. DO you use Active Directory or some other ldap system?
@diedrikvdd yes we have script to feed DHCP file
i just have to check if it’s in open source codebase ;)
ok, here it is: https://github.com/allegro/ralph/tree/ng/contrib/dhcp_agent
this is simple script with 0 dependencies, python2 and python3 compatible
it generates DHCP config file from Ralph database
@vi4m I have to think about it, but i think one can use the 'custom objects' per host to define some sort of 'role' which the CM then can fetch via the Ralph API. Will have a look into the old Ralph 2 Code how the Puppet integration was done there.
it has two options: ('-H', '--host', help='Ralph instance host.’) and ('-k', '--key', help='Ralph API key.')
@onibox yes - it’s really close to what we’re using :)
basically, puppet runs our script to fetch „class” to apply for each host
this „class” is exposed via Ralph API as a „Configuration path”
we just wrote really simple puppet external classifier as described here: https://puppet.com/docs/puppet/5.5/nodes_external.html
@vi4m Which CM are you using?
puppet
ok thx
@albercuba__twitter openldap
@vi4m we mainly use static entries in our dhcp, will ralph produce something similar?
yes, it will generate static MAC = IP entry table
@vi4m I suppose that dhcp and ralph have to be on same server to be effective?
no, the opposite would be most reliable. config is served throught the ralph API
see yourself, client script gets this url: http://ralph-demo.allegro.tech/dhcp/entries?dc=DC2
i need to prepare some demo data, since this DC doesn’t have entires
basically, this API endpoint is the complete DHCP server config file