Hi List,
I have a feature request for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features : ipmi functionality.
An immediate feature would be the ability to include freeipmi-bmc-watchdog. This would allow administrators to use the service processor/bmc to detect/report a stuck install.
Future use would be to have anaconda run ipmi commands to log install status: start, step completed, success, failure. Therefore having the service processor aware of the install status.
I assume this is accomplished by including the ipmi driver and ipmitool/freeipmi packages in the stage 2 image. I am in the process of familiarizing myself with the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/SourceOverview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide
Thanks, Jeff Mendoza Software Engineer Dell | Linux OS Engineering
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:55 -0500, Jeffrey_L_Mendoza@dell.com wrote:
Hi List,
I have a feature request for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features : ipmi functionality.
An immediate feature would be the ability to include freeipmi-bmc-watchdog. This would allow administrators to use the service processor/bmc to detect/report a stuck install.
Future use would be to have anaconda run ipmi commands to log install status: start, step completed, success, failure. Therefore having the service processor aware of the install status.
I assume this is accomplished by including the ipmi driver and ipmitool/freeipmi packages in the stage 2 image. I am in the process of familiarizing myself with the wiki: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/SourceOverview http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide
Please note that many major changes were not reflected to these wiki pages. I would recommend you to look directly at the code, in particular the 'newui' branch in the git repository.
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Vratislav Podzimek vpodzime@redhat.com wrote:
Please note that many major changes were not reflected to these wiki pages. I would recommend you to look directly at the code, in particular the 'newui' branch in the git repository.
I've requested an IPMI stack in Anaconda before (via support contacts), and the request was declined. However, I think I was successful at getting tcpdump added in. We use the IPMI tools in order to setup the BMC in %pre for non-enterprise class machines - that's the only way we've got to remotely powercycle, etc.
Quite a bummer, actually - means that I have to go put the right bits in squashfs.img and redo it for every release. Haven't checked in recent Fedora releases to see if it somehow made it back (it was there in RHEL5).
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