maas-devel team mailing list archive

[Andres Rodriguez <andres.rodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've filed [0] to keep track of this.

@Julian, could you please take a look at it?

Thanks

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1341396


On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 11/07/14 23:53, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
> > That is expected. Machines only get IP addresses once allocated. Do you
> > think is that an appropriate approach?
>
> I would suggest that once MAAS "owns" a machine, i.e. MAAS has PXE
> booted the machine itself (credentials work), it is given a name and
> static IP address which does not change unless edited by the user (it
> should be possible for the user to put it on a difference, unused IP
> address in the static range). Renaming the machine would update DNS,
> editing the IP would update DNS.
>
> This allows a user to "ping" a machine and see that it is off.
>
> Mark
>
>


-- 
Andres Rodriguez
Engineering Manager, HWE Team
Canonical USA, Inc.