No way to put a node into "maintenance mode"

[Jonathan Davies]

MAAS doesn't offer us a way of putting a "Ready" node that we know is failing into a "maintenance mode".

For instance, if I know that a machine has a hardware problem; I have to go into MAAS and delete it (to prevent say, juju from picking it for deployment) which may be tedious if I'm just going to remove it for a few hours, only to readd it again.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

A workaround might be to create a MAAS user specifically to allocate failed hardware to. MAAS will try to provision the machine, but you can ignore that.

[Jonathan Davies (jpds)]

True, but because of bug #1170337, I have no way of telling juju pick *that* machine that I know is broken and allocate it and would have to pick wack-a-mole until I got the right one.

[Gavin Panella (allenap)]

You could use maas-cli to do it. I think something like the following would work:

  maas-cli $profile nodes acquire name=$hostname

[Blake Rouse (blake-rouse)]

This is now supported with the "Broken" state.