On Friday 25 May 2012 10:26:34 Dave Walker wrote: > The issue is actually slightly larger than this. In the case of a > freshly racked node we should be doing this: > - Node is racked and powered on > - Node is enlisted > - Node is accepted > - Node boots into commissioning > - Environment tries to discover if it knows of it's own power type > - If IPMI: > - Request from MAAS sane defaults for the ipmi tables
Can you explain this in more detail please? I know nothing about IPMI. > - Set the local IPMI parameters in the server BMC (akin to > 'burning into firmware') > - Post back results. > > However, for things such as PDU/CDU's and some other power management > types, this isn't going to be easily viable. This means that we > probably need 'power type' templates, which can be set in both the > webui and crucially, the API. Right, this is exactly what I was driving at. The question is, do we want power profiles or just general profiles? > This means that MAAS needs to be a 'master of information' and a > 'consumer of information' for power control. > > Thanks. > > Kind Regards, > Dave Walker Cheers J -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
