Foreman UUID Boot

Allows booting machines based off of machine UUID instead of - or in addition to - interface MAC

Example iPXE boot URLs;

http://foreman.example.com/unattended/iPXE?mac=${netX/mac}&uuid=${uuid}
http://template-proxy.example.com:8000/unattended/iPXE?mac=${netX/mac}&uuid=${uuid}

Also works with http://foreman.example.com/unattended/iPXE?bootstrap=true after extending the iPXE intermediate script with;

- chain --autofree --replace <%= foreman_url('iPXE', {}, { mac: "${net#{i}/mac}" }) %> || goto net<%= i+1 %>
+ chain --autofree --replace <%= foreman_url('iPXE', {}, { mac: "${net#{i}/mac}", uuid: "${uuid}" }) %> || goto net<%= i+1 %>

Installation

See the Plugins install instructions, advanced installation from gems for information on how to install this plugins.

To enable the slower fact searching in addition to the UUID boot facet, create a plugin configuration file under /etc/foreman/plugins with;

---
:uuidboot_factsearch: true

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on the LiU GitLab at https://gitlab.liu.se/ITI/foreman_uuid_boot or on GitHub at https://github.com/ananace/foreman_uuid_boot

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the GPL-3.0 License.