post-setup common-external-networks documentation or installer bug

[jbarfield]

Goal:
Install Triton Datacenter

Following this guide:
https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud/install/headnode-installation

Problem:
I was able to install Triton up to the "sdcadm post-setup common-external-nics" point. At which point I continually received the following error:
napi client error (ServiceUnavailableError): Initial network data not loaded

Work Around:
I logged into the napi0 zone and looked at the napi config under:

/opt/smartdc/napi/config.json

I noticed that the external gateway, startIP, and EndIP's were all empty even though I did setup the external network using the initial installer and entered all of the missing data on first run.

"external": {
"vlan": 12,
"uuid": "",
"network": "192.168.12.0",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"gateway": "",
"startIP": "",
"endIP": "",
"resolvers": ["8.8.8.8","8.8.4.4"]
}

I populated the config file manually and restarted the napi service.

vi /opt/smartdc/napi/config.json

"external": {
"vlan": 12,
"uuid": "",
"network": "192.168.12.0",
"netmask": "255.255.255.0",
"gateway": "192.168.12.252",
"startIP": "192.168.12.1",
"endIP": "192.168.12.251",
"resolvers": ["8.8.8.8","8.8.4.4"]
}

svcadm restart smartdc/application/napi)

And voila:
[root@headnode (tpd) ~]# sdcadm post-setup common-external-nics
Added external nic to adminui
Added external nic to imgapi

I was then able to login to the operator console successfully.

[jbarfield]

forgot to mention that this is on the latest usb release:
20170817T070613Z

[grant-roy]

Anyone know what else might cause this? I have the same error but my configuration file is populated.

[bahamat]

Check the contents of /usbkey/config to verify that it has what you expect. This is usually a result of putting in invalid parameters (e.g., one or more of the gateway, host IP, start IP, end IP are outside of the subnet prefix).