install.sh installs rollcall-dnsmasq-reload.sh and the systemd units
from the deploy directory, but CD copied only five files: every deploy
since a549f01 reinstalled a stale, pre-security reload script on the
region from an old copy left in /opt/rollcall/deploy.
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Rack controllers ask the region for a server certificate for their own
URL's host (POST /api/v1/rack/server-cert; CN rack-server:NAME,
ServerAuth only, never one of the region's names or addresses) and serve
the agents' endpoints and images over HTTPS too (tls_listen, default
<host>:443), reporting the HTTPS URL when they register (accepted only
on the rack's own host). The pxelinux command lines name it with the CA
fingerprint (rollcall.tls=, rollcall.ca=); the embedded rack uses the
region's listener. Agents fetch /ca.pem, accept it only by that
fingerprint and then use HTTPS with it, including the image download; a
job fetched over HTTPS gets an HTTPS image URL. No fallback to HTTP once
TLS was asked for; old agents ignore the new words. The CLI refuses a
rack controller's certificate as the region.
PXE itself (TFTP, kernel, initrd) stays unauthenticated: this protects
what agents send and receive from listeners and from an HTTP server
posing as the rack, not from an attacker rewriting boot files.
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Found in the lab test of certificate pinning: the CLI printed only
'ipmitool failed on 1 machine(s)'.
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The Redfish and Proxmox clients skipped TLS verification (BMCs ship
self-signed certificates), so a host posing as a BMC on the network got
the Basic-auth password. Before any credentials go to an HTTPS BMC the
region now reads its certificate with a handshake-only operation
(tls-fingerprint, run on the rack controller) and pins the SHA-256 on
the BMC record (extra tls_fingerprint); every later connection must show
the same certificate or nothing is sent. Changing the address, clearing
tls_fingerprint, or a BMC firmware update run by Rollcall (new firmware
often means a new certificate) pins anew. verify_tls=true still uses the
system CAs instead. The lab emulator keeps its certificate like a BMC.
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Job and node tokens travel in the per-MAC pxelinux file, readable by any
host on the provisioning network over TFTP; with a job token one could
fetch the deploy seed (user-data, tag cloud-config) or report the job,
with a node token the stateless overlay (e.g. munge.key).
The region knows the address it gives each machine (static DHCP leases
from the network model): /jobs/self, job progress, phone-home and the
node overlay are now refused from anywhere else (403, an event on the
machine). Through a remote rack controller the address is the rack's
own X-Forwarded-For entry, believed only from an authenticated rack. A
machine without a fixed address (proxy DHCP) binds a job to the first
address that uses it. agent_source_check: false turns this off.
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GET /api/v1/bmc-hint answered with the BMC password to anyone with the
agent token (public on the PXE command line) and a MAC (visible on the
wire). It now returns the address and user only. When a machine reports
in, the region matches its MACs against bmc_hints itself, seals the
configured password into the record, and checks the BMC with a status
call from the rack controller (verified_oob). The agent skips its own
check when no password comes; old agents keep working.
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Renewal could not work: rack join writes the certificate and key as
root, and the rack (user rollcall) failed to overwrite them. A lost
renewal answer also locked the rack out, since the region accepted only
the new serial.
- the renewed certificate and key go into one file in
/var/lib/rollcall/rack-cert (cert_state_dir), written atomically, and
are preferred at start when they are this rack's, from the CA, newer
- after a renewal the region accepts the previous serial for 7 days; a
new join does not keep it
- rollcall rack renew renews now (run as the service user)
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Found in the lab run: pve-redfish runs with ProtectSystem=strict, so it
could not write its firmware state and dropped the reset request that
applies a staged BIOS. Tested end to end on the lab: iDRAC profile
multipart BMC update, iLO profile pull of BMC and BIOS through rack
controller pxe-rack2 with -reboot, model check and -force, resume of a
running update across a region restart.
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A firmware repository on the region (firmware_dir, served under
/firmware/<id>/<file>, cached by rack controllers for BMCs to pull),
each machine's firmware inventory (FirmwareInventory, classified into
bios/bmc/nic/raid/cpld/psu/drive), and update jobs (kind "firmware")
that the region drives with short rack commands: fw-start hands the
package over, fw-poll watches the task (tolerating a BMC that restarts),
fw-finish releases what was claimed, fw-inventory verifies the version.
Running updates resume after a region restart; they cannot be cancelled
once the BMC has the package.
Standard methods (multipart, SimpleUpdate pull, HttpPushUri) with known
Content-Length, plus vendor plans from their documentation or their own
tools: Dell MultipartUpload (OnReset), HPE SimpleUpdate with .fwpkg
extracted at import, Lenovo /mfwupdate with HttpPushUriTargetsBusy,
Supermicro /upload with targets and preserve options, GIGABYTE/AMI/
ASRock Rack /upload with OemParameters ImageType, OpenBMC
update-multipart, xFusion upload to /tmp/web then SimpleUpdate, KAYTUS
upload then OEM SimpleUpdate with fixed tasks, Fujitsu iRMC OEM actions;
Cisco CIMC is refused clearly (SCP only). fw_params and fw_method on
the BMC record override a plan.
CLI rollcall firmware list|import|rm|show|update, API, a Firmware tab
and a repository card in the UI. The lab Redfish emulator gains an
UpdateService (BMC applies at once, BIOS at the next reset).
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Found by the first signed update on pxe-rack2: the signature verified,
then the copy in /run could not be executed.
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One DMTF Redfish implementation, plus a profile per vendor with what
its documentation (or Ironic/sushy, MAAS, bmclib field notes) says is
different, each with sources: Dell iDRAC, HPE iLO, Lenovo XCC,
Supermicro, xFusion/Huawei iBMC, KAYTUS/Inspur, Fujitsu iRMC, Cisco
CIMC, GIGABYTE, ASRock Rack, OpenBMC, AMI MegaRAC.
Generic rules: reset types and boot targets from AllowableValues or
ActionInfo; boot target, enable and mode in one PATCH, the mode kept,
omitted or tried per profile; If-Match from header or @odata.etag with
412 (strong, then none) and 428 handling; AMI future-state /SD and
@Redfish.Settings targets; busy retries (POST, 409, 503, "Retry in");
202 task following; chassis reset fallback; emulated power cycle;
session login; 400 answers that say Success.
Probe results (reset types, boot targets, mode, profile) are kept on
the BMC record and shown in the UI; the UI's driver list comes from the
server. Each profile has a fake BMC test built from its sources.
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Findings from a full review (auth/API, CA and rack channel, config
generation, integrations, UI/agents/scripts), each verified in code:
- rack binary endpoint read any region file via arch=../.. (CA key)
- render endpoint traversal; machine-reported MACs used as file paths
- delegated intermediates could mint admin/rack identities and IPs;
identities now require root-issued certs, intermediates are
ServerAuth-only with both name types constrained
- rack certs were ServerAuth for rack-chosen SANs: now client-only;
racks accept only the region's own cert; join checks the CA
fingerprint; unbound join codes cannot take an existing name; job
results bound to the rack that took them
- rack self-update: region signs binaries with the CA key, the root
unit verifies against the join-time CA in a root-owned dir
- dnsmasq reads a checked, root-owned copy limited to generated options
- commissioning could overwrite deployed machines; MAC takeover of PXE
- injection into dnsmasq/cloud-init/PXE/udev/DNS via names and
machine-reported strings; stored XSS in the UI; CSP and cross-origin
protection; deploy agent shell injection and seed traversal
- Redfish requests confined to the BMC's /redfish/ tree
- admin_http defaults to loopback; body limits and timeouts; secrets
off command lines
Also: IPAM claim/reconcile race, sync stopping on one error, watchdog
race, release wiping the wrong disk, SAN LUNs as auto targets.
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Rollcall writes its machines' A/AAAA records into the site's DNS when
no IPAM authority publishes them. Names follow the IPAM rule.
- powerdns: RRsets owned by comment account "rollcall"; others are
reported as conflicts and left alone.
- rfc2136: TSIG-signed updates with a _rollcall.<name> TXT marker.
Changing a record requires the marker, creating one requires the
name to be free, so foreign records are never overwritten. Written
records are kept in dns_records and queried on every sync, so
out-of-band changes are repaired (marker present) or reported
(someone else's record).
- Sync on allocation/release and every sync_interval; rollcall dns,
rollcall dns sync [-dry], doctor check.
Tested against netops PowerDNS and BIND 9 (conflict, repair, wrong
TSIG secret).
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A VLAN in proxy mode leaves addresses to the site's DHCP server; the rack
only answers PXE (dnsmasq proxy range + pxe-service), machines keep DHCP
unless a static range is set aside. CLI -proxy-dhcp, web UI mode select,
bootstrap --proxy-dhcp, doctor/discover aware.
dnsmasq 2.91 (and 2.93) loops forever in its proxy path when the proxy
range carries a set: tag: option_filter appends a request's tags to the
context's persistent list, so the next request's stack interface tag
points at itself (found with gdb on the lab rack). Proxy ranges are
untagged and PXE services limited by interface; dhcp-boot/dhcp-match only
for served subnets; no dhcp-host lines for proxied ones.
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cloud-init's ca_certs ran update-ca-certificates on Rocky and failed, so
those machines never trusted the Rollcall CA. The CA is now written into
both trust-anchor directories and a bootcmd rebuilds the store with
update-ca-trust or update-ca-certificates.
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pxeBoot dropped the errors of its BMC calls, so a command lost while the
rack or region restarted produced an empty, success-looking event and the
job waited forever. Errors now go into the event (pxe boot failed), and a
watchdog fails jobs the machine has not started within job_start_timeout
(default 30m: real servers take 4-5 minutes to POST, longer in bulk).
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INSTALL.md follows a clean run from day 0 to a deployed machine.
Release assets now include rollcall-<tag>-linux-<arch>.tar.gz (binary,
deploy/, agent/). deploy/publish-image.sh uploads a region's commissioning
image to a release (commissioning-*); bootstrap.sh downloads either layout,
with IMAGE_TOKEN for private repositories. bootstrap: --ssh-key (default:
the operator's keys), keeps server_url on reruns without --iface.
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bootstrap.sh no longer needs the provisioning network: it installs and
starts the region on the management address; --iface later models the
subnet, serves DHCP and moves server_url. rollcall net discover shows what
each interface sees (LLDP, DHCP servers via a parallel probe, neighbours)
and suggests the next step. commission_append follows server_url. Doctor
treats a host that serves no DHCP yet as day 0. Fixes found on a clean VM:
os-release clobbered the rack name, install.sh not executable, slow DHCP
offers missed.
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bootstrap.sh sets up a region on a fresh Debian 13 host (packages,
PostgreSQL, TFTP tree, config, services, verified commissioning image,
provisioning subnet with ranges/DHCP, optional NAT, first OS image).
rollcall doctor checks an installation and says what to fix, including a
DHCPDISCOVER probe for foreign DHCP servers. pxelinux-default no longer
hard-codes the lab address.
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rollcall admin-cert request NAME makes a key locally and sends a CSR; the
region signs admin:NAME (client auth) and records the serial; a verified,
recorded, unrevoked certificate is an admin. CLI/console read it from
client.json, a .p12 is written for the browser; the web UI no longer insists
on a token.
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The region offers its binary (version, arch, sha256) in each rack's state and
serves it over mutual TLS; the rack stages it after checking checksum and
version; a root path unit installs it, restarts the rack and rolls back if it
does not register within a minute.
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Debian's dnsmasq looks for /run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf, which only resolvconf
writes; without it every name outside the cluster domain was refused, so
nodes could not resolve mirrors or site services.
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New roots carry path length 1. `rollcall ca intermediate` signs a CSR (or a
generated key) as an intermediate limited to the permitted domains and
address ranges; a root with path length 0 refuses and `rollcall ca rotate`
replaces it. deploy/tags/acme-cert.yaml gets a node certificate from an
ACME server under such an intermediate and renews it.
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Every address Rollcall hands out is registered in the configured authority
first; addresses others hold there are skipped. Rollcall's records carry the
tag `rollcall` and the machine ID in the `rollcall_machine` custom field;
only those are changed or deleted. Releases trigger a reconcile that also
runs periodically. dns_name per address feeds the site's DNS sync. Delegated
prefixes can be listed and imported as subnets. `rollcall ipam`.
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CA (llmgw-style)
- region creates its CA (ECDSA P-256) and serves API/UI/images over HTTPS on tls_listen with a
certificate for every name/address it has (reissued on change or a month before expiry);
admin_http policy (allow|loopback|deny) for the admin API over plain HTTP; /ca.pem
- rack controllers enroll with one-time join codes (CA fingerprint + secret + expiry + address):
rollcall controller join-code, rollcall rack join; mutual TLS from then on, identity from the
certificate (CN rack:NAME, serial on record), removal revokes, renewal a month before expiry;
the shared rack_secret stays as a legacy fallback
- clients: CA from the server config, ROLLCALL_CA, or trusted on first connect in the console after
showing the fingerprint (kept in client.json); deployed machines trust it via cloud-init ca_certs
(allowed on RHEL-family images), overlays get .CA; rollcall ca show|issue
Power drivers
- ipmi (cipher/privilege/interface), redfish (system discovery, ResetType from AllowableValues or
ActionInfo, boot override with If-Match), idrac, ilo, supermicro, xcc, openbmc, proxmox (API
token), manual; executed on the rack controller; Redfish auto-detection after commissioning;
operator settings survive recommissioning; rollcall bmc, BMC editing in web UI and console
- lab: pve_redfish.py Redfish emulator per Proxmox VM (iDRAC, iLO, generic profiles)
IPv6
- IPv6 subnets and IPAM (netip), dual-stack default layout (all subnets of the boot VLAN),
per-family default routes, accept-ra off where addresses are planned, dnsmasq RA/DHCPv6 with
router lifetime 0 unless the rack is the gateway, AAAA host records from IPAM, IPv6 listen
addresses and URLs, rack interfaces and region certificate with IPv6, agent reports IPv6
Tests for CA/join/pinning/CSR signing, Redfish (iDRAC, iLO fallbacks, probe), Proxmox, manual,
IPv6 candidates, dual-stack plans and dnsmasq IPv6.
Verified in the lab: rack2 enrolled and running on mutual TLS only, revocation and single-use
codes; iLO auto-detected through rack2, iDRAC and Proxmox drivers, wrong password not saved;
Debian 13 (bond+VLAN), Rocky 9 and AlmaLinux 9 dual-stack with Redfish-driven deployments; CA
trusted on Debian and AlmaLinux; admin CLI over HTTPS on IPv4 and IPv6.
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- fabrics, VLANs, subnets, IP ranges (dynamic/reserved/static), IPAM with adoption of
addresses machines already have; rollcall fabric|vlan|subnet|range|ip
- interface layouts (physical/bond/vlan, NICs by selector: boot, name, mac, fastest:N, ib:N)
per machine or per tag; deployment allocates addresses and writes cloud-init network-config
plus udev name rules (RHEL cloud images boot with net.ifnames=0); release frees them;
rollcall layout, rollcall net show|set
- region/rack: rollcall rack long-polls its desired state (per-MAC PXE files kept in the
database, dnsmasq configuration and host files) and a BMC command queue, caches boot and OS
images (kernels/initrds prefetched for TFTP), proxies the node API and tags requests with its
name; the region runs an embedded rack controller; install-rack.sh, rollcall-rack.service
- dnsmasq configuration generated per rack from the VLANs it serves (split pool for two racks);
reload script restarts only on change and restores the last working config if dnsmasq does
not come back (drilled in the lab)
- web: Network page, per-machine network tab, layout action, tag layout; console: Network page,
network section in the machine view, layout action
- tests for candidates, plans (default, bond+VLAN, pinned, DHCP fallback), network-config,
udev rules and dnsmasq rendering
- lab: pve-vbmc address script finds the interface per BMC address
Verified in the lab: embedded rack (10.213.77.0/24) and a remote rack controller on a second
SDN segment (10.213.78.0/24): enlistment, commissioning, BMC through the rack's queue, image
cache, deployment and phone-home through the rack; Debian 13, Ubuntu 24.04 and Rocky 9 with a
static boot NIC and with an active-backup bond carrying VLAN 200.
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- Bubble Tea + lipgloss with the same frame as llmgw: title bar, sidebar, bordered panel,
key line, dialog overlay; keyboard only
- pages: overview, machines (filter, state filter, multi-select, bulk actions), machine
detail, racks with elevation, jobs, events, tags, profiles, OS images
- actions: power, boot device, deploy OS, assign/unassign, tags, location, re-commission,
release, cancel job, delete; confirmation for destructive ones; per-machine results
- connect screen when no server is configured; URL + token saved to
~/.config/rollcall/client.json (0600), also used by the CLI
- batched runes outside text fields are handled key by key
- rollcall tui -dump WxH renders one screen; first Go tests for rendering and keys
- web: unnamed machines show their id instead of the live image's hostname
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- machines.building/room/rack/rack_unit/asset_tag, racks table (height, comment)
- API: POST /machines/{id}/location, POST /locations/import (CSV or JSON, matched by
id/serial/mac/node_name, ?dry=1), GET/POST/DELETE /racks, ?building/?room/?rack filters
- CLI: rollcall location ..., location import, location racks/rack, list -rack/-room/-building
- UI: location column and building > room > rack chips, bulk Set location…, Racks page with
elevation views and CSV import dialog, location in machine detail
- .Node.Building/Room/Rack/Unit/AssetTag in overlay templates and tag match rules
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- tags table + machines.tags/auto_tags; match rules as Go templates over .Node
(GPUs, IB, CPUs, memory, disks, NVMe, PCI vendors, manufacturer/product, OS)
re-evaluated at commissioning and on tag changes
- deployment: tag cloud-config fragments appended as MIME parts with additive merge;
deploy/tags/gpu-nvidia.yaml installs the NVIDIA driver per distro family
- stateless: tag overlays appended to the profile's overlays
- CLI: tag, tags, list -tag, deploy/power tag:NAME fan-out; UI: tags column, per-machine
editor, tag definitions panel; API: /api/v1/tags, /machines/{id}/tags, ?tag=
- CHANGELOG.md; release workflow publishes the tag's section as release notes and
refuses tags without one
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