Open odyssey4me opened 10 years ago
cloudnull
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10 years ago We talked about this today I think this cookbook "http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/ipmitool/source" may be a good starting point though implementing IPMItool in an RPC deployment of Openstack is going to be a larger discussion.
Other interesting tidbits : https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal
More on this soon-ish...
odyssey4me
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10 years ago https://github.com/retr0h/cookbook-ipmitool is pretty basic, but hey - it's listed so we may as well contribute to it. :+1:
Off topic, but bare metal deployment is always an interesting topic with so many options - my feeling is that Openstack Ironic is way too early, MAAS is immature and Forman's great, but a little bent on Puppet rather than Chef. DJeep is simple and working for us, but could do with some attention on a little more advanced functionality (and perhaps a little spit and polish ;) ).
I'm in the process of working through another release cycle, so I'll likely do some work on the IPMI cookbook soon-ish.
I'll likely do this within the next month unless someone else gets there first.
ipmitool provides a standardised way to get access to a DRAC/ILO/IMM/etc from a host OS, allowing the monitoring of physical hardware, the chassis, etc.
I know for sure that it works for IBM hardware, which is what we've deployed on. It's probable that it works for other hardware too.
The implementation details are provided here: http://cloudbuilder.co.za/2013/08/12/monitoringmanaging-ibm-hardware-on-ubuntu/