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This spec adds support for boot management features for Dell Remote Access Controller. Change-Id: Id2b12a238a42a98237027117015f5bab9a2bc177
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
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License.
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
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DRAC Management driver for Ironic
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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/drac-management-driver
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The proposal presents the work required to add support for boot management
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features for Dell Remote Access Controllers.
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Problem description
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Dell Remote Access Controller is an interface card from Dell offering remote
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system management. This proposal adds the boot management capabilities for
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DRAC.
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Proposed change
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* Create a DracManagement class and implement the following methods interacting
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with the WS-Management API "(WS-Man)" described in the ``DCIM BIOS and Boot
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Management Profile`` using the python binding of the OpenWSMAN library:
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- set_boot_device() - To set the boot device for a node. The ``persistent``
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flag will be supported to indicate if the change
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should be applied for the next boot only, or
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persistently.
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- get_boot_device() - To get the current boot device of a node with the
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indication whether it's persistent, or not.
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- get_supported_boot_devices() - To get a list of the supported boot
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devices of a node. The supported boot
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devices will be ``disk`` and ``pxe``.
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* Add DracPXEDriver class to the list of the available drivers, which uses the
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PXEDeploy, DracPower, and DracManagement interfaces. (The above change is a
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prerequisite for this one, because PXE requires setting the boot
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device to network).
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Alternatives
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None
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Data model impact
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None
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REST API impact
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None
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Driver API impact
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None
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Nova driver impact
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None
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Security impact
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None
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Other end user impact
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None
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Scalability impact
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None
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Performance Impact
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None
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Other deployer impact
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None
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Developer impact
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None
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Implementation
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Assignee(s)
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Primary assignee:
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ifarkas
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Other contributors:
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None
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Work Items
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* Add methods supporting boot management to the management interface.
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* Create the DracPXEDriver class.
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Dependencies
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============
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* This feature depends on the python binding of the OpenWSMAN library which was
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introduced by the power management interface of the DRAC driver.
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* This feature requires 11th or 12th generation of Dell PowerEdge servers.
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Testing
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* Unit tests
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* 3rd-party CI: we would like to do it for this driver, but do not have
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sufficient hardware available at this time.
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Documentation Impact
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====================
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None
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References
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* `Spec for ManagementInterface <https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-specs/tree/specs/juno/new-management-interface.rst>`_
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* `OpenWSMAN library <http://openwsman.github.io/>`_
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* `DCIM BIOS and Boot Management Profile 1.2 <http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/systems-management/w/wiki/3511.dcim-bios-and-boot-management-profile-1-2.aspx>`_
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