iBoot driver¶
Overview¶
The iBoot power driver enables you to take advantage of power cycle management of nodes using Dataprobe iBoot devices over the DxP protocol.
The staging-iboot
hardware type uses iBoot to manage power of the nodes.
Requirements¶
python-iboot
library should be installed - https://github.com/darkip/python-iboot
Configuring and enabling¶
Add
staging-iboot
toenabled_hardware_types
andenabled_power_interfaces
in /etc/ironic/ironic.conf. Also enable thefake
management interface. For example:[DEFAULT] enabled_hardware_types = staging-iboot,ipmi enabled_management_interfaces = fake,ipmitool enabled_power_interfaces = staging-iboot,ipmitool
Restart the Ironic conductor service:
service ironic-conductor restart
Registering a node¶
Nodes configured for the iBoot driver should have the driver
property
set to staging-iboot
.
The following configuration values are also required in driver_info
:
iboot_address
: The IP address of the iBoot PDU.iboot_username
: User name used for authentication.iboot_password
: Password used for authentication.
In addition, there are optional properties in driver_info
:
iboot_port
: iBoot PDU port. Defaults to 9100.iboot_relay_id
: iBoot PDU relay ID. This option is useful in order to support multiple nodes attached to a single PDU. Defaults to 1.
The following sequence of commands can be used to enroll a node with the iBoot driver.
Create node:
openstack baremetal node create --driver staging-iboot \ --driver-info iboot_username=<username> \ --driver-info iboot_password=<password> \ --driver-info iboot_address=<address>
References¶
[1] | iBoot-G2 official documentation - http://dataprobe.com/support_iboot-g2.html |