dsmarsh/rocketjump

This is a VX machine to bring up a RocketJump server to provision your switches

Laptop Management Server for Initial Configuration

This repo can be used to create a mgmt station configured with:

• DHCP
• ZTP - basic shell script
• ansible hosts
• /etc/hosts

Just edit the files with your environment. plug in the laptop to the eth0 OOB network, and do the following from the RocketJump directory:

• vagrant up
• choose which device is connected to the eth0 OOB network
• vagrant ssh mgmt

Install Instructions

Copy this repo to your laptop

• git clone https://github.com/dsmarsh/RocketJump.git

Setup Management VM

• From laptop terminal:
• ls rocketjump
• vagrant status

Copy the 3.2.0 CL image to the VM

• Copy the Cumulus Linux Image to the mgmt VM
• login and download the x86 version of the CL 3.1.2 image from https://cumulusnetworks.com/downloads/
• copy that image binary to the ./RocketJump/ directory

Change the ansible_hostfile/hosts/ztp.sh/dhcpd.conf to match your environment

• Use nano or vim to edit the files
• ansible_hostfile
• hostnames
• group names
• hosts
• ips
• hostnames
• ztp.sh
• passwordless sudo
• pre-automation /etc/network/interfaces
• dhcpd.conf
• ips
• hostnames
• ztp file Locations

Copy the license string into the license file on the mgmt server.

• Use nano or vim to edit the only line in the cumulus.lic file
• use vim or nano to open ./RocketJump/cumulus.lic
• retrieve the license from your email
• copy and paste the license over the line:
• save the file and exit vim/nano

Boot the mgmt VM

• From the Host running VirtualBox (laptop) - login/password: vagrant/vagrant (not needed)
• vagrant up
• vagrant ssh
• Now you will be inside the VM (Cumulus VX). Let's switch to user (su) "root".
• sudo su
• Now use NCLU to check the version
• net show version

Check configuration

Apache Hosted

• Check apache hosted files

root@mgmt:/home/vagrant# ls -alth /var/www/html/
total 20K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  92 Dec 29 03:25 .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   0 Dec 29 03:25 cumulus.lic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 997 Dec 29 03:25 ztp.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 391 Dec 29 03:25 authorized_keys
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11K Dec 29 03:25 index.html
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   8 Dec 29 03:25 ..

• Check DHCP config

root@mgmt:/home/vagrant# ls -alth /etc/dhcp/
total 8.0K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.0K Dec 29 03:25 dhcpd.conf
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3.5K Dec 29 03:25 ..
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  134 Dec 14 03:12 dhclient-exit-hooks.d
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  132 Dec 14 03:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root   10 Dec 14 03:10 dhclient-enter-hooks.d
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.9K Dec  2 17:33 dhclient.conf

Follow switches as they boot

Two Files to Watch

• Locations
• /var/log/syslog
• /var/log/apache2/access.log
• Tail both files at once.
• tail -f /var/log/syslog /var/log/apache2/access.log