On 17 September 2014 08:47, Julian Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: ... > I believe flagging to be wrong, MAAS should be taking corrective > action. If someone wants to turn off a machine, do it through MAAS, > not elsewhere.
When that machine has been provisioned by an IS department for someone else's use? "If you wish to reboot, power-off, or power-on the machine on which you have root, please file a ticket and we'll deal with it under our usual SLA." That's uncool. Saying that MAAS is now the power fascist for deployed machines is a change of direction. I think it's fine if people want to use MAAS to control their node's power, but we should not force them. > > For example, the power could have failed, and the BIOS might not be > set to restart the machine upon power restoration. MAAS could be > useful and power up the node if it knows it should be on. The BIOS might also have been set to keep the machine off after a power failure. We /could/ add flags and suchlike to MAAS to tweak all of this, but much simpler is to step back and let the users have the final say on what are now _their_ machines. Looked at another way: if MAAS was forcing power control on my machine I'd remove MAAS's credentials from the BMC. > > Just because a node is deployed does not mean we can abdicate > responsibility for this. We are deliberately handing over responsibility for the machine to the user, to a similar degree that a system administrator would if they were to give root on a box. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maas-devel More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
