Comment 0 for bug 1074317

Acquiring a specific node can be accomplished via the cmdline or api via hostname
   maas-cli maaslocal nodes acquire name=$host

However, then after acquiring the node if I want to start it I have to do:
  maas-cli maaslocal node start $SYSTEM_ID

The two separate pieces of information needed is annoying.

Things I'd like improved:
 * ability to acquire a specific node by its node id:
   maas-cli maaslocal nodes acquire system_id=$SYSTEM_ID
 * ability to start a node by its hostname. Since hostname is valid for acquire, it would be useful to suffice for start also. Although if I can use system_id in both cases, this is less important.
 * api or cmdline failure or complaint based on invalid input
    Currently if I try to acquire a system and pass data like:
       acquire frobnicator=19 flex_capacitor=true
    Maas will happily return me a system. I'd like it complain that it doesn't know what a fronicator is. I found this when trying to use 'system_id='