Auto Deploy Deep Dive, Part 4: Troubleshooting

Part 4 of the Auto Deploy Deep Dive Series details some of the issues I encountered along the way and how to troubleshoot them.

Troubleshooting

PXE

In a VLAN’ed environment (most production, and some home labs), the native VLAN and the destination VLAN for your host may be separate. You can of course boot the host on a port with no VLANs, the move/reconfigure the port to have the correct VLANs, but I would suggest entering the PXE manager at boot and setting the proper VLAN to eliminate possible failure points. If not, you may run into this situation…

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