add veewee idrac provider

[jedi4ever]

Until now, veewee only works with virtual machines.

To make it work with physical machines, we need to resort to the ipmi or remote console capabilities of the hardware. An example implementation could be with iDrac (Dell Console).

• The idea is to mount the local iso file over the network via the remote console
• then issue the bootsequence through vnc (like in fusion and kvm implementation)
• the preseed URL needs to be configurable when we do this over the internet: our local webserver will not be reachable by it's own IP address
• after the first install, ssh is available , so we need a way to determine that IP address to remote ssh into the machine we created.

For the iDrac vnc interaction this might help:

• http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2011/03/evil-hack-to-make-arrow-and-sysreq-keys-work-with-a-dell-idrac-kvm-and-linux-desktop/
• Ruby iDrac console launcher, without login

Besides the VNC, iDrac has SSH support:

But I'm sure if we can automate the virtual media via ssh, or we require vnc:

• example on newservers.com to boot virtual media iso
• http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/idrac10mono/en/ug/html/racugc1b.htm#wp1059190

Now if only someone could provide a remote reachable iDrac to test with, without paying ++$

[mihai-satmarean]

I am becoming very interested in this. Is still in development?

[trinitronx]

This might be worth looking into: rubyipmi Cobbler also seems to be a tool that falls in the same category

[mihai-satmarean]

Well that is cool! and is ruby, maybe can be integrated in veewee.

2014-09-30 23:27 GMT+02:00 James Cuzella notifications@github.com:

This might be worth looking into: rubyipmi https://github.com/logicminds/rubyipmi Cobbler http://www.cobblerd.org/manuals/2.6.0/4/5_-_Power_Management.html also seems to be a tool that falls in the same category

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