Enlistment does not do BMC discovery

[Julian Edwards]

Without BMC discovery, power parameters have to be entered manually. This can be difficult when the BMC uses DHCP itself.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Details capture from duplicate bug:

When a machine is declared to MAAS by booting ephemerally off PXE it should capture BMC information with:

  sudo bmc-config --checkout

This provides a file like the attached, which can be parsed to gather IPMI details (ip address for the BMC specifically, but also details of user configuration and network config). The critical section looks like this:

ubuntu@node-0025904cbfb0:~$ sudo bmc-config --checkout --section Lan_Conf
#
# Section Lan_Conf Comments
#
# In the Lan_Conf section, typical networking configuration is setup. Most users
# will choose to set "Static" for the "IP_Address_Source" and set the
# appropriate "IP_Address", "MAC_Address", "Subnet_Mask", etc. for the machine.
#
Section Lan_Conf
 ## Possible values: Unspecified/Static/Use_DHCP/Use_BIOS/Use_Others
 IP_Address_Source Use_DHCP
 ## Give valid IP address
 IP_Address 192.168.9.12
 ## Give valid MAC address
 MAC_Address 00:25:90:4B:AA:8A
 ## Give valid Subnet Mask
 Subnet_Mask 255.255.255.0
 ## Give valid IP address
 Default_Gateway_IP_Address 192.168.9.1
 ## Give valid MAC address
 Default_Gateway_MAC_Address 00:00:00:00:00:00
 ## Give valid IP address
 Backup_Gateway_IP_Address 0.0.0.0
 ## Give valid MAC address
 Backup_Gateway_MAC_Address 00:00:00:00:00:00
 ## Give valid unsigned number
 Vlan_id 0
 ## Possible values: Yes/No
 Vlan_Id_Enable No
 ## Give valid unsigned number
 Vlan_Priority 0
EndSection

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1059074/+attachment/3358361/+files/bmc-config.example.txt for example bmc-config output

[Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl)]

 \o/ thank you, looking forward to testing it. So this is a straight
pxe-boot enlist and it should Just Work (tm)?

[Andres Rodriguez (andreserl)]

Howdy.

Enlistment doesn't yet do BMC discovery,Commissioning does. However, the API now accepts power parameters which allow us sending the information back to MAAS during enlistment. Marking this bug as 'In Progress' as it is currently in progress.

Cheers.

[James Falcon (falcojr)]

Tracked in Github Issues as https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/issues/2287