On 01/05/12 01:37, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Monday 30 Apr 2012 17:39:06 Kieran Evans wrote: >> My second question is regarding IPMI. The current options for starting >> machines are virsh and WOL. I've had better results in my setup using IPMI >> to start machines, and I was wondering if this was something people might >> want in MAAS. Further IPMI support could include the ability to remotely >> enable pxe booting (i.e. `ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password -H >> ipaddress chassis bootdev pxe`) and other things. >> >> I was wondering where would be a good place to start in my delve into the >> code to get to know it, and where I'd look at adding support to start >> machines via IPMI. > Hi, thanks for your interest in doing some coding. We plan on adding more > power types in the near future so you could wait a while, but if you're > really > keen we can certainly help you along! > > It should be quite easy to add IPMI support although there's a few things to > consider: > * We need to make a database schema change store a node's power type > parameter. Power type itself is already there, but it a) relies on data > loaded separately into cobbler to work if you're not using WoL, b) only > enumerates virsh in addition to WoL right now > * We need a UI change to let the user add the parameters > * A change in the pserv daemon to poke the new data into cobbler > * Tests! We always write unit tests. > > Finally, we will be ripping out cobbler in the next few months (could be > sooner depending on the outcome of some planning) so while this change > doesn't > touch too much of cobbler, we have to bear it in mind. > > If you are still keen then I can arrange for a mentor to help you through the > process! > > J > If you can find a very patient mentor who can deal with lots of questions, I'll gladly give it a go :p
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