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[Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:59:20PM +0800, Jeffrey Lane wrote:
> Can someone help clue me in a bit on where we stand with AMT power?

We believe our support for AMT itself is robust with 1.7.1; if there are
reliability issues still I'd love to hear about them. Having said that,
as Blake pointed out:

> I have a group at Lenovo running MAAS 1.7.1 and they have a server
> that uses AMT for management.  The issue they run into is that they
> can PXE and successfully enlist BUT on reviewing the hardware after
> enlistment the power type is not automatically set.

We have yet to find a way to automatically determine the AMT parameters
during the enlistment phase. We don't know of an in-band communication
module on Linux, though apparently it can be done using a certificate
(at least that's what the Technet docs suggest). If Lenovo can give us
more information we'd love to address this issue.

> I've asked them to at least try manually setting the power parameters
> and verifying that MAAS CAN control power beyond that.

That is expected to work, and if it doesn't, let us know.
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