diskimage-builder/elements/ironic-discoverd-ramdisk/README.rst

ironic-discoverd-ramdisk

Warning

This element is deprecated. Please use the ironic-agent element instead.

ironic-inspector [1] is a project for conducting hardware properties discovery via booting a special ramdisk and interrogating hardware from within it.

This ramdisk collects hardware information from the machine it's booted on and posts it to the URL provided via kernel argument 'discoverd_callback_url'.

The hardware information collected by the ramdisk are:

• BMC IP address (may be required for associating with existing node in Ironic)
• CPU count and architecture
• Memory amount in MiB
• Hard drive size in GiB
• IP and mac addresses for all NICs except the loopback

The machine is halted at the end of the process.

[1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ironic-inspector