Hi Greg, How do these smaller devices allow you to manage their power state?
Typically you have a side-computer (AKA bare-metal controller) which is always up so you can talk to it (via IPMI/Redfish/SNMP/ssh) to manage power state of its big brother. The pxe_ssh driver is about libvirt VMs simulating bare-metal nodes. I am not sure this is what you need. Also, pxe_ssh driver is obsoleted by the virtualbmc proxy by now. On 11/21/2017 05:22 PM, Waines, Greg wrote: > Hey, > > > > We have been integrating OpenStack Ironic into our own OpenStack > Distribution. > > Thanks to help from the mailing list, we’ve been able to successfully > ‘nova boot’ a bare metal instance on an ironic node using the > pxe_ipmitool drivers. > > Thanks again for all the help. > > > > A QUESTION about some future work we are starting to look at. > > > > We are interested in using Ironic to boot smaller devices that do NOT > support IPMI. > > > > I believe that there are other drivers such as pxe_ssh for managing > resets and power on/off of such servers. > But i don’t understand how these work at a high-level. > > e.g. > > - where do the pxe_ssh drivers SSH to ? > > > for reset, i suppose it could be the ironic node itself (if > it’s actually running a load, like the deployment image) > > > but for power on/off ... it can’t be the ironic node itself > > > > Can somebody provide or point me to a brief explanation of how Ironic > can be used for > serving loads to devices NOT supporting IPMI ? > > > > thanks in advance, > > Greg > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
