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[Kieran David Evans <keyz182@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/05/12 01:37, Julian Edwards wrote:
> On Monday 30 Apr 2012 17:39:06 Kieran Evans wrote:
>> My second question is regarding IPMI. The current options for starting
>> machines are virsh and WOL. I've had better results in my setup using IPMI
>> to start machines, and I was wondering if this was something people might
>> want in MAAS. Further IPMI support could include the ability to remotely
>> enable pxe booting (i.e. `ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password -H
>> ipaddress chassis bootdev pxe`) and other things.
>>
>> I was wondering where would be a good place to start in my delve into the
>> code to get to know it, and where I'd look at adding support to start
>> machines via IPMI.
> Hi, thanks for your interest in doing some coding.  We plan on adding more 
> power types in the near future so you could wait a while, but if you're really 
> keen we can certainly help you along!
>
> It should be quite easy to add IPMI support although there's a few things to 
> consider:
>  * We need to make a database schema change store a node's power type 
> parameter.  Power type itself is already there, but it a) relies on data 
> loaded separately into cobbler to work if you're not using WoL, b) only 
> enumerates virsh in addition to WoL right now
>  * We need a UI change to let the user add the parameters
>  * A change in the pserv daemon to poke the new data into cobbler
>  * Tests!  We always write unit tests.
>
> Finally, we will be ripping out cobbler in the next few months (could be 
> sooner depending on the outcome of some planning) so while this change doesn't 
> touch too much of cobbler, we have to bear it in mind.
>
> If you are still keen then I can arrange for a mentor to help you through the 
> process!
>
> J
>
If you can find a very patient mentor who can deal with lots of
questions, I'll gladly give it a go :p

/Kieran