no way to get power parameters in api

[Scott Moser]

I raised this issue in bug 1185160. Clearly I should have raised 2 bugs, for 2 different issues (owner and ipmi data). I wish I had.

Maas knows the IPMI information, I'm admin, I need to see that IMPI information so I can debug or investigate something. Going to the web UI is simply not acceptable in my opinion.

I'd like to be able to program/script something that does:
 ipmi-console node-287cbc5a-0b40-11e3-8cfe-d4ae527ac129

That would drop me into a shell from using ipmi-tool. Ie:

  ipmitool -H 192.168.1.201 -U maas -P PASSWORD shell

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I didn't fix this in your original bug because it's not easy to fix, sadly. IIRC there was no easy way to get hold of the requesting user in the api call to determine whether to return the extra data.

[Raphaël Badin (rvb)]

> IIRC there was no easy way to get hold of the requesting user in the api call to determine whether to return the extra data.

What do you mean by that exactly?

I think this is mostly a design decision: either we accept to return different objects depending on who the requester is (which is something we avoided this far, RESTful and all that). Or — my preferred choice — we add an admin-only method to get the power-parameters.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

I guess it's more of a philosophical decision then. I'm ok with another
admin-only method if you guys all are too.