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[Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 05:46:55PM -0400, Jeffrey Lane wrote:
> Sorry for the email, but I think most/all of the MAAS devs are EOD by now.
> 
> I was just wondering if there is any way nodes are aware or can be
> made aware of the MAAS server?
> 
> What I'm trying to is figure out a way that a node can know that it
> was deployed from MAAS, and what version of MAAS was used.  Is there
> some sort of API that the node can talk to MAAS to get version info
> from?
> 
> Would it be possible to somehow inject this data into the node via the
> curtin_userdata file (or d-i preseed)) at deployment time?

Depends on what exactly you want, but if all you're after is a hard
coded version, you can add something like:

# untested
late_commands:
  set_maas_in_guest: curtin in-target -- sh -c "/bin/echo 1.5.blahblahblah > /etc/installed-with-maas"

in the maas region controller's /etc/maas/preseeds/curtin_userdata.

\t

> The reason is that for certification, we record the version of MAAS
> used to deploy the SUT.  This is captured mostly for support purposes,
> so that if Server A is certified and a customer reports an issue down
> the road like "MAAS doesn't see my ServerA", we can look at the
> certificate and say "Well, it was working as of version
> 1.5.blahblahblah, so something has regressed since then".
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Jeff
> 
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