Just for information, if anyone hitting this issue on HP Proliant DL380p machines and IPMI over LAN is also enabled, updating to latest Integrated Lights-Out (ILO) firmware, fixed the issue for me.
-- Junaid On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Mark Shuttleworth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13/02/17 22:13, Sandor Zeestraten wrote: > > Enabling IPMI over LAN (and anything else iDRAC related) is pretty > > straightforward if you use racadm. Check out the link below. > > > > http://www.dell.com/support/manuals/no/no/nobsdt1/dell- > idrac-service-module-2.0/idrac8_ug_pub-v1/Configuring- > IPMI-Over-LAN-Using-RACADM?guid=GUID-B5132B9F-5DF3-400C- > AE33-FA5DA7D66B6A&lang=en-us > > For certified machines, this sort of thing should be handled > automatically by MAAS. Commissioning the machine in MAAS implies you > want network IPMI control of the machine, and debugging this is > difficult for someone new to the whole world. > > Servers should not get Ubuntu certification unless this stuff "just > works", which means MAAS should enable this itself during enlistment. > > Also, MAAS should not be accepting machines during enlistment that it > cannot then drive over the network; if the BMC is unreachable for > example then I would expect a bunch of logs about failed enlistments, > and WHY they failed, and MAAS should not create credentials for itself > in those cases. > > So during enlistment: > > * we detect the IPMI details and enable network access if necessary > * we test that we can reach the BMC from a rack controller > * we add the secure MAAS credentials for the BMC > * we verify that we can test power > * then we consider the enlistment a success and record the machine > (otherwise, we note the failure and give reasons / pointers in the > GUI and log) > > Mark > > > -- > Maas-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/maas-devel >
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