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

Tested platforms¶

iBoot-G2 [1]

Configuring and enabling¶

Add staging-iboot to enabled_hardware_types and enabled_power_interfaces in /etc/ironic/ironic.conf. Also enable the fake 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