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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 25 May 2012 10:26:34 Dave Walker wrote:
> The issue is actually slightly larger than this.  In the case of a
> freshly racked node we should be doing this:
>  - Node is racked and powered on
>  - Node is enlisted
>  - Node is accepted
>  - Node boots into commissioning
>    - Environment tries to discover if it knows of it's own power type
>      - If IPMI:
>        - Request from MAAS sane defaults for the ipmi tables

Can you explain this in more detail please? I know nothing about IPMI.

>        - Set the local IPMI parameters in the server BMC (akin to
>          'burning into firmware')
>        - Post back results.
> 
> However, for things such as PDU/CDU's and some other power management
> types, this isn't going to be easily viable.  This means that we
> probably need 'power type' templates, which can be set in both the
> webui and crucially, the API.

Right, this is exactly what I was driving at.  The question is, do we want 
power profiles or just general profiles?

> This means that MAAS needs to be a 'master of information' and a
> 'consumer of information' for power control.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Dave Walker

Cheers
J