[BlueOnyx:22048] Re: 5209R cannot change nameserver settings in tcp/ip

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Dirk,

> It is not possible to safe settings in TCP/IP. I do always get a blank TCP/IP page and an error in the messages log
> May 13 13:09:08 hostname cced(smd)[4404]: client 0:[49:1305]: AUTHKEY to user "" failed

Every time a GUI page is loaded we check the authentication of the user
who's accessing the page to determine if the user is logged in, valid
and privileged enough to see the page. There are two forms how CCE can
authenticate a user

The AUTH or AUTHKEY command.

AUTH requires username and password and (if the login is valid) returns
a sessionID. This is usually only used during login to the GUI and after
that we use the username and password.

AUTHKEY requires the username and sessionId and (if valid) returns the
OID of the user in question.

If you get 'AUTHKEY to user "" failed' this tells me that the GUI page
tried to authenticate you via AUTHKEY, but no username was sent.

For debugging could you please do this?

Run "touch /etc/DEBUG" to create the empty file /etc/DEBUG. Then run
"tail -f /var/log/admserv/adm_error" while you login to the GUI, go to
TCP/IP, make the change you wish to make and hit save.

Please send me the result from the logfile afterwards. But *please* edit
the file to obscure your password. It will be logged (once) as well
during the AUTH stage right after login.

While /etc/DEBUG is present the GUI will log *all* CCE transactions to
/var/log/admserv/adm_error. This will be *very* helpful to debug this issue.

In the meantime (until this problem is fixed) you still might want to
make your DNS changes. You can do so via cceclient.

Example_

[root at 5209r ~]# /usr/sausalito/bin/cceclient
100 CSCP/0.99
200 READY
find System
104 OBJECT 1
201 OK

This tells us the 'System'-object has the OID #1. Yours might be different.

Run this command to look at the content of your System object
(substitute the correct OID if yours isn't #1:

get 1
102 DATA productBuild = "5209R"
102 DATA NAMESPACE = ""
102 DATA productIdentity = "20180208"
102 DATA CLASSVER = "1.2"
102 DATA OID = "1"
[...]
102 DATA dns = "&8.8.8.8&4.2.2.2&"
[...]

As you can see: This example has the DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 4.2.2.2
configured. The format here is Scalar, meaning: The values are
encapsulated in '&' characters.

Say you want to change the 2nd DNS server from 4.2.2.2 to 8.8.4.4, then
the command to do it would be this:

SET 1 . dns = "&8.8.8.8&8.8.4.4&"

That will then deploy the new DNS servers to the respective config files.

The second way is to use a small tool that comes with the CD-version of
BlueOnyx: /usr/sausalito/sbin/set_dns.pl

If I wanted to set 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as DNS servers, I would use the
tool this way:

/usr/sausalito/sbin/set_dns.pl 8.8.8.8&8.8.4.4

Note that there is no leading and trailing "&", because the tool adds
them itself when submitting to CODB. But if more than one DNS server is
specified, we need to separate them with "&" and no spaces.


-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber