Skip to content

Add console interface to oneview hardware type #7

@ricardoas

Description

@ricardoas

As openstack user, I launch a new bare metal instance and I watch the deployment logs from the Server Hardware using a console interface associated to the correspondent Ironic Node.

Considering the scenario of a launching an instance using a Nova flavor, created using ironic-oneview-cli, matching an Ironic node, enrolled using ironic-oneview-cli too, the only way to follow the deployment process from the user perspective (for answering questions like: 'did the server hardware get an ip address from Neutron dhcp?'; 'did it connect to TFTP for downloading the deployment image containing IPA?'; and 'has the end user image started being written the Server Hardware local disk?') is to launch the iLO console via HPE OneView what requires credentials that OpenStack users may not have access too, only the cloud administrator responsible for managing the nodes. Providing a console interface for the oneview hardware type at Ironic would enable access to the Server Hardware logs using the credential at /etc/ironic/ironic.conf file.

A previous investigation was unsuccessful to reuse the iLO hardware type implementation due to the restriction at the time to set iLO credentials manually at the Ironic node properties. We understand that a better approach would be to use the OneView SSO mechanism to get access to these logging facilities.

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Milestone

    No milestone

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions