I pinged JamF Support about this as well but thought I would put it out in a discussion to see if anyone has any ideas. Here is info to provide scope:
- Version of Netboot/SUS appliance: 3.0
- Server OS: Centos 6.5 (virtual server managed on a VMWare ESXi 5.5 host)
- Netboot image is OS X 10.9.0
When clicking "Enable Netboot Image" in the Netboot server page of the web application, the page refreshes and the service still is disabled, no error messages appear. The dashboard shows "DHCP Status: Not running"
Troubleshooting steps performed:
1. Re uploaded netboot image and made sure the folder name had no spaces (this is specificed in the administration guide)
2. Added a subnet and netmask that is appropriate for what I am doing:
subnet: 10.0.0.0
netmask: 255.0.0.0
Confirmed in the Settings->Network settings that the values match what my environment calls for
Restarted the server OS
From what I can gather is that when you click "Enable Netboot Image" what the app is doing is sending a command to start the DHCP service (as netbooting is a function of DHCP) and I can see in the about section of the server that Jamf uses the ISC DHCP software. My guess is that there is a problem where this service can't start for some reason, but this is a wild guess.
If anyone has encountered this issue or has any advice I would appreciate it, and If JamF support helps resolve the issue, I will post the resolution in this discussion.
Thanks!
Zach