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4.6. Configuring the Director

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The director installation process requires certain settings to determine your network configurations. The settings are stored in a template located in the stack user's home directory as undercloud.conf.
Red Hat provides a basic template to help determine the required settings for your installation. Copy this template to the stack user's home directory: 
$ cp /usr/share/instack-undercloud/undercloud.conf.sample ~/undercloud.conf
The basic template contains the following parameters:
local_ip
The IP address defined for the director's Provisioning NIC. This is also the IP address the director uses for its DHCP and PXE boot services. Leave this value as the default 192.0.2.1/24 unless you are using a different subnet for the Provisioning network, for example, if it conflicts with an existing IP address or subnet in your environment.
network_gateway
The gateway for the Overcloud instances. This is the Undercloud host, which forwards traffic to the External network. Leave this as the default 192.0.2.1 unless you are either using a different IP address for the director or want to directly use an external gateway.

Note

The director's configuration script also automatically enables IP forwarding using the relevant sysctl kernel parameter.
undercloud_public_vip
The IP address defined for the director's Public API. Use an IP address on the Provisioning network that does not conflict with any other IP addresses or address ranges. For example, 192.0.2.2. The director configuration attaches this IP address to its software bridge as a routed IP address, which uses the /32 netmask.
undercloud_admin_vip
The IP address defined for the director's Admin API. Use an IP address on the Provisioning network that does not conflict with any other IP addresses or address ranges. For example, 192.0.2.3. The director configuration attaches this IP address to its software bridge as a routed IP address, which uses the /32 netmask.
undercloud_service_certificate
The location and filename of the certificate for OpenStack SSL communication. Ideally, you obtain this certificate from a trusted certificate authority. Otherwise generate your own self-signed certificate using the guidelines in Appendix A, SSL/TLS Certificate Configuration. These guidelines also contain instructions on setting the SELinux context for your certificate, whether self-signed or from an authority.
local_interface
The chosen interface for the director's Provisioning NIC. This is also the device the director uses for its DHCP and PXE boot services. Change this value to your chosen device. To see which device is connected, use the ip addr command. For example, this is the result of an ip addr command: 
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 52:54:00:75:24:09 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.122.178/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global dynamic eth0
       valid_lft 3462sec preferred_lft 3462sec
    inet6 fe80::5054:ff:fe75:2409/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
    link/ether 42:0b:c2:a5:c1:26 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
In this example, the External NIC uses eth0 and the Provisioning NIC uses eth1, which is currently not configured. In this case, set the local_interface to eth1. The configuration script attaches this interface to a custom bridge defined with the inspection_interface parameter.
network_cidr
The network that the director uses to manage Overcloud instances. This is the Provisioning network. Leave this as the default 192.0.2.0/24 unless you are using a different subnet for the Provisioning network.
masquerade_network
Defines the network that will masquerade for external access. This provides the Provisioning network with a degree of network address translation (NAT) so that it has external access through the director. Leave this as the default (192.0.2.0/24) unless you are using a different subnet for the Provisioning network.
dhcp_start, dhcp_end
The start and end of the DHCP allocation range for Overcloud nodes. Ensure this range contains enough IP addresses to allocate your nodes.
inspection_interface
The bridge the director uses for node introspection. This is custom bridge that the director configuration creates. The LOCAL_INTERFACE attaches to this bridge. Leave this as the default br-ctlplane.
inspection_iprange
A range of IP address that the director's introspection service uses during the PXE boot and provisioning process. Use comma-separated values to define the start and end of this range. For example, 192.0.2.100,192.0.2.120. Make sure this range contains enough IP addresses for your nodes and does not conflict with the range for dhcp_start and dhcp_end.
inspection_extras
Defines whether to enable extra hardware collection during the inspection process. Requires python-hardware or python-hardware-detect package on the introspection image.
inspection_runbench
Runs a set of benchmarks during node introspection. Set to true to enable. This option is necessary if you intend to perform benchmark analysis when inspecting the hardware of registered nodes. See Appendix C, Automatic Profile Tagging for more details.
undercloud_debug
Sets the log level of Undercloud services to DEBUG. Set this value to true to enable.
enable_tempest
Defines whether to install the validation tools. The default is set to false, but you can can enable using true.
ipxe_deploy
Defines whether to use iPXE or standard PXE. The default is true, which enables iPXE. Set to false to set to standard PXE. For more information, see "Changing from iPXE to PXE in Red Hat OpenStack Platform director" on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
store_events
Defines whether to store events in Ceilometer on the Undercloud.
undercloud_db_password, undercloud_admin_token, undercloud_admin_password, undercloud_glance_password, etc
The remaining parameters are the access details for all of the director's services. No change is required for the values. The director's configuration script automatically generates these values if blank in undercloud.conf. You can retrieve all values after the configuration script completes.

Important

The configuration file examples for these parameters use <None> as a placeholder value. Setting these values to <None> leads to a deployment error.
Modify the values for these parameters to suit your network. When complete, save the file and run the following command: 
$ openstack undercloud install
This launches the director's configuration script. The director installs additional packages and configures its services to suit the settings in the undercloud.conf. This script takes several minutes to complete.
The configuration script generates two files when complete:
  • undercloud-passwords.conf - A list of all passwords for the director's services.
  • stackrc - A set of initialization variables to help you access the director's command line tools.
To initialize the stack user to use the command line tools, run the following command: 
$ source ~/stackrc
You can now use the director's command line tools.
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