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 h1. Requirements 

 before you start, make sure you have: 

 * Puppet >= 0.24-4 
 * rake >= 0.84  
 * rubygems 
 * rack = 1.0.1 
 * ruby-sqlite3 (libsqlite3-ruby) if you are going to use sqlite as your database 
 * git (if installing from source ) 

 The installation has been successfully tested on RHE5 and Ubuntu 8.04 -    10.04, 9.10,    for older operating systems you might need additional packages (e.g. sqlite) 

 h1. Download 

 h2. Puppet Module ready to use 

 You may try out the puppet Foreman module, this should take care for most of the basic setup. 

 The module could be downloaded via: http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/tarball/master 

 you may use puppet (if you don't want to add it as a module to your puppetmaster) in the following way: 

 if you are using RHE5, EPEL repo must be enabled http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL 

 If you are using puppet store configs please set $using_store_configs to true in foreman/manifests/init.pp. 
 If you want this module to configure passenger as well, set $using_passenger to true in foreman/manifests/init.pp 

 usage: 

 <pre> 
 echo include foreman | puppet    --verbose --modulepath /path_to/tarball 
 </pre> 

 *Its recommend to review the module prior usage.* 

 h2. RPM 

 We maintain a repository for RHE5 (and clones) - you may add it via: 

 h3. Puppet  

 <pre> 
 yumrepo { 'foreman': 
     descr => 'Foreman Repo', 
     baseurl => 'http://theforeman.org/repo', 
     gpgcheck => '0', 
     enabled => '1' 
 } 
 </pre> 

 h3. Quick and dirty 

 <pre> 
 cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/foreman.repo << EOF 
 [foreman] 
 name=Foreman Repo 
 baseurl=http://theforeman.org/repo 
 gpgcheck=0 
 enabled=1 
 EOF 
 </pre> 

 <pre> 
 yum install foreman 
 </pre> 

 Additional rpms might be required from epel repo's 

 if you just want to get the rpms: 

 http://theforeman.org/repo/el5/noarch/foreman-0.1.4-3.noarch.rpm 
 http://theforeman.org/repo/el5/noarch/rubygem-rack-1.0.1-1.noarch.rpm 
 and  
 http://theforeman.org/repo/el5/SRPM/foreman-0.1.4-2.src.rpm 

 h2. Latest stable release 

 Latest stable version can be found "here":http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/60/foreman-0.1-4.tar.bz2 

 h2. Latest source code 

 You can get the latest source code of Foreman from the git repository hosted at github. 
 This is the preferred way to get Foreman if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the git repository you can also upgrade more easily. 

 to get latest "stable" version do: 

 <pre><code>git clone git://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman 
 cd foreman 
 git submodule init 
 git submodule update 
 </code></pre> 

 * if you are behind a proxy or firewall and dont have access to github using the git protocol, use http protocol instead (e.g.) 
 <pre> 
 git clone http://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman 
 cd foreman 
 sed -i 's/git:\/\//http:\/\//g' .gitmodules 
 git submodule init 
 git submodule update 
 </pre> 

 h3. Daily snapshot 

 You can also fetch the latest daily snapshot of the development version at: 
 http://thetorque.org/foreman-nightly.tar.bz2 


 h1. Initial setup 

 h2. Database 

 Foreman uses a database, this database can be shared with Puppet store-configs (they are compatible, as Foreman extends the puppet database schema). 
 By default, SQLite is used, if you want to use other database (e.g. [[FAQ#I-want-to-use-MySQL|MySQL]]) please modify the configuration file under +config/database.yml+. 

 If you want to share the database with Puppets (storeconfig), just modify +config/database.yml+ to point to the same database configuration as puppet is. 

 In both cases, please use the *production* settings. 

 to initialize the database schema type: 
 <pre> 
 RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate 
 </pre> 

 h2. Import Data from Puppet 

 At this point, you might want to go through the [[FAQ]] to see how can you import your data into Foreman. 

 h2. Start The Web Server 

 if you installed via rpm, just start the foreman service, or start the built in web server by typing: 
 <code>./script/server -e production</code> 

 and point your browser to http://foreman:3000 

 If you would like to keep the server running, its recommend to setup passenger or use the RPM. 
 example usage with passenger can be found here: http://github.com/ohadlevy/puppet-foreman/blob/master/foreman/templates/foreman-vhost.conf.erb 

 h1. Future Updates 

 see [[Upgrade instructions]] 

 h1. Problems? 

 see [[Troubleshooting]]