Foreman » Smart Proxy

h1. MS DHCP

The Microsoft smart-proxy installation procedure is very basic compared to the RPM or APT based solution. 

It is required that this procedure is executed as an administrator.

1) Go to the smart-proxy repository at https://github.com/ohadlevy/smart-proxy

2) Select download and choose the latest revision

3) Extract this to a directory that does not have any spaces in its name.

4) Go to the rubyinstaller webpage at http://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/

5) Download and install the latest ruby 1.8.7 release. (Allow the ruby associations to be installed.)

6) Download and install the latest DevKit release

6.1) ruby dk.rb init

6.2) ruby dk.rb install

7) Open a CMD window and, using *gem install --version X.X.X --platform ?????*, add these gems

 columnize (0.3.2)

 haml (3.0.24)

 highline (1.6.1)

 json (1.4.6 x86-mswin32)

 linecache (0.43 mswin32)

 mime-types (1.16)

 mocha (0.9.11)

 net-ping (1.3.7)

 rack (1.2.0)

 rake (0.8.7)

 rest-client (1.6.1)

 sinatra (1.1.0)

 tilt (1.1)

 win32-api (1.4.6 x86-mswin32-60)

 win32-open3 (0.3.2 x86-mswin32-60)

 win32-service (0.7.1 x86-mswin32-60)

 windows-api (0.4.0)

 windows-pr (1.1.2)

8) CD to the root of the smart-proxy install directory

9) Edit config/settings.yml so that it looks a bit like this

_Sample config/settings.yml file_

<pre>

 ---

 # HTTPS settings

 :ssl_certificate: c:\documents\smart-proxy\config\signed.pem

 :ssl_private_key: c:\documents\smart-proxy\config\private.pem

 :ssl_ca_file:     c:\documents\smart-proxy\config\ca.pem

 :trusted_hosts: [ foreman.someware.com]

 :daemon: false

 # Enable DHCP management

 :dhcp: true

 # The vendor can be either isc or native_ms

 :dhcp_vendor: native_ms

 # The dhcp_server is only used by the native_ms implementation

 :dhcp_server: 172.29.90.240

 # Where our proxy log files are stored

 # filename or STDOUT

 # Unix setting

 #:log_file: log/proxy.log

 # Windows setting

 :log_file: c:\tmp\proxy.log

 # valid options are

 # Logger::WARN, Logger::DEBUG, Logger::Error, Logger::Fatal, Logger:INFO, LOGGER::UNKNOWN

 #:log_level: Logger::DEBUG

</pre>

10) Create the SSL key

10.1) Login to your puppetmaster

10.2) puppetca --generate _Smart-proxy FQDN_. (Do not use an alias here.)

10.3) Copy the private key, the public certificate and the ca.pem from /var/lib/puppet/ssl over to the locations that you specified in the setting file.

11) Test the installation by running ruby bin\smart-proxy.rb

12) Install the program as a service

12.1) ruby extra\register-service.rb

12.2) This may install the service but not run it. If so then try to start the service from the Ordinary Microsoft services snapin utility.

13) You may test connectivity by running the *extra\query.rb* utility from your foreman host. (Note that this file comes from the _extra_ directory in the smart-proxy release.)