[RFE] Collect biosdevname info

[Annie Lezil]

This is a proposal to add a collector for Ironic Python Agent. There are different collectors for Ironic Python Agent, which collects PXE boot device and root device and PCI devices, but there are no collectors that list the BIOS devices and their corresponding kernel names and MAC addresses assigned to it.

I would like to propose a collector for Ironic Python Agent to collect the info on all available BIOS devices using biosdevname –d (debug info). As an example, see the debug info for a device:

BIOS device: p9p1
Kernel name: p9p1
Permanent MAC: A0:36:9F:32:45:A8
Assigned MAC : A0:36:9F:32:45:A9
ifIndex: 2
Driver: ixgbe
Driver version: 3.15.1-k
Firmware version: 0x80000711
Bus Info: 0000:08:00.0
PCI name : 0000:08:00.0
PCI Slot : 9
Index in slot: 1

These data collected is useful for debugging the BIOS devices. As can be seen, we get the entire debug information for this particular device, which is helpful for troubleshooting.

[Dmitry Tantsur (divius)]

Hi! Could you please elaborate on your use case? Maybe an example of such debugging? Also please state the format of the resulting data. Actually, let's maybe propose a spec against ironic-inspector-specs similar to http://specs.openstack.org/openstack/ironic-inspector-specs/specs/generic-pci-resource.html

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/404372

[Annie Lezil (annie-lezil)]

Do not affect this project

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/404372
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-inspector-specs/commit/?id=54eb73565953cca2899485d021c888c59b491e17
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 54eb73565953cca2899485d021c888c59b491e17
Author: Annie Lezil <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Nov 29 18:19:04 2016 +0000

    Collect NIC name given by BIOS

    Proposing a spec to add a extra field 'biosdevname' to network interface
    inventory collected by 'default' collector of ironic-python-agent.

    Change-Id: If4efd3ba5ed7bb2816696b853b1fc39d0b2340ef
    Partial-Bug: #1635351

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/396406
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ironic-python-agent/commit/?id=fdcb0922a5c4a4ecbb8cb1b307c6c750990699ff
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit fdcb0922a5c4a4ecbb8cb1b307c6c750990699ff
Author: Annie Lezil <email address hidden>
Date: Thu Nov 10 21:29:40 2016 +0000

    Collect NIC name given by BIOS

    Adds an extra field ``biosdevname`` to network interface inventory
    collected by ``default`` inspection collector (which collects the whole
    inventory returned by hardware manager) of ironic-python-agent.

    This feature requires biosdevname utility to collect the bios given NIC
    names. The tooling module for tinyIPA is created for the same purpose.
    For CoreOS IPA pxe images, biosdevname tooling module is limited,
    because Docker repository is created and embedded into CoreOS pxe
    images. The Docker repository uses debian to download the packages.
    Debian does not have biosdevname package.

    Adds an export variable TINYIPA_REQUIRE_BIOSDEVNAME. Set this
    variable to ``true`` in your shell before building tinyIPA.

    Closes-Bug: #1635351
    Change-Id: Ia96af59e2a74868cac59e5a88cfbb3be60d85687

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

This issue was fixed in the openstack/ironic-python-agent 2.1.0 release.

[Iury Gregory Melo Ferreira (iurygregory)]

The code change was in IPA and it was already released, inspector required a spec. Marking as Fix Released.