Operations frequently timeout waiting for iDRAC to become ready

[Christopher Dearborn]

When executing any operation against an iDRAC, python-dracclient will frequently timeout waiting for the iDRAC to become ready and error out.

A typical error looks like this:

2017-09-18 19:24:25.359 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.modules.drac.job [req-ee14d494-692e-4834-ae8a-90456a0b8f34 - - - - -] DRAC driver failed to get the list of unfinished jobs for node d409c4bb-9cf9-4715-9a5a-d56e0c4e4f86. Reason: DRAC operation failed. Messages: Timed out waiting for the iDRAC to become ready.
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base [req-ee14d494-692e-4834-ae8a-90456a0b8f34 - - - - -] vendor_passthru failed with method list_unfinished_jobs
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base Traceback (most recent call last):
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironic/drivers/base.py", line 690, in passthru_handler
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base return func(*args, **kwargs)
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironic/drivers/modules/drac/vendor_passthru.py", line 128, in list_unfinished_jobs
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base jobs = drac_job.list_unfinished_jobs(task.node)
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ironic/drivers/modules/drac/job.py", line 82, in list_unfinished_jobs
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base raise exception.DracOperationError(error=exc)
2017-09-18 19:24:25.360 875 ERROR ironic.drivers.base DracOperationError: DRAC operation failed. Reason: DRAC operation failed. Messages: Timed out waiting for the iDRAC to become ready

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/505398

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/505398
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/python-dracclient/commit/?id=8f368ed3e1f94003e9faa5c647dd9d568a6fea60
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 8f368ed3e1f94003e9faa5c647dd9d568a6fea60
Author: Christopher Dearborn <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Sep 19 16:23:48 2017 -0400

    Increased is-iDRAC-ready timeout

    The current is-iDRAC-ready timeout is set to 24 iterations times a
    delay of 10 seconds, or 4 minutes. This timeout is too short for 12G
    and 13G hardware as operations against the iDRAC will frequently
    timeout if the iDRAC is not in a ready state.

    This patch increases the number of iterations to 48, which bumps the
    timeout up to 8 minutes. This increased timeout is sufficient for the
    iDRAC on 14G, 13G, and 12G hardware to become ready and therefore avoid
    a timeout exception.

    Change-Id: I9dc476d3c28475919404077875f04fd006d4464a
    Closes-Bug: 1718277