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Message #00250
Re: Preparations for scaling out - defaulting
On Tuesday 29 May 2012 08:58:41 Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> On 2012-05-25 16:26, Dave Walker wrote:
> > - Environment tries to discover if it knows of it's own power type
> >
> > - If IPMI:
> > - Request from MAAS sane defaults for the ipmi tables
> > - Set the local IPMI parameters in the server BMC (akin to
> >
> > 'burning into firmware')
> >
> > - Post back results.
>
> I do sometimes wonder whether there would be anything wrong with simply
> throwing every available power method at a node. I'd expect the
> non-applicable ones to have no effect, but even if they did, would it
> matter?
You need to know the power parameters, which are different for each method,
and some are not discoverable.
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