Learn How To Install Foreman on CentOS 7
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Foreman is a free and open source tool which helps you with configuration and management of physical and virtual servers. Foreman also helps you to provision and monitor your server.
Prerequisites
- CentOS 7 server.
- Root user access.
Update System
Update your system before installing Foreman.
yum -y update
Setup a Hostname
You’ll have to edit the /etc/hosts file using any text editor.
nano /etc/hosts
Add your server.
198.51.100.0 server.itweb.services.local server
Next, you’ll need to setup a hostname.
nano /etc/hostname
Enter your hostname, be sure to change it to your own hostname.
server.itweb.services.local
Save the file and exit from the text editor.
Note: The above commands are examples. You should change them to your own.
Install Foreman
The Foreman installer is a collection of Puppet modules that installs everything required for a full working Foreman setup.
Now let’s configure the EPEL, Puppet and Foreman repositories.
rpm -ivh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-7.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://yum.theforeman.org/releases/1.9/el7/x86_64/foreman-release.rpm
Install the Foreman installer so that it can install Foreman and all of its required packages.
yum -y install foreman-installer
Execute the Foreman installer. It’ll take some.
foreman-installer
You’ll see Success as output on completion of installation.
Firewall Configuration
Execute following commands one by one.
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=53/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=67-69/udp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=80/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=443/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3000/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=3306/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5910-5930/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=5432/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8140/tcp
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-port=8443/tcp
Reload firewall services.
firewall-cmd --reload
Web Interface
Open up your web browser and visit http://YourServerIP or http://FQDN to access Foreman web interface. You’ll see a login webpage, so enter your Foreman username and password and then click the Login button.
Install NTP Module
NTP module is one of the most important requirements of Puppet for managing the NTP services.
puppet module install -i /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules saz/ntp
In the Foreman web console, go to Configure > Puppet Classes and click on Import from hostname (server.itweb.services.local) to read the available Puppet classes from the puppet master and populate Foreman’s database.
Select the NTP module and click on the Update button.
Now you can manage NTP module and Foreman from its dashboard.
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