As requested by the MAAS folks I have now tested the following with some older proliant servers (tested with G7 and G9):
sed -i '/^workarounds=/s/"$/ --retransmission-timeout=5000"/' /etc/maas/templates/power/ipmi.template
After applying this setting I see no negative impact on operation and in cases where impi was previously timing out I no longer see this problem.
As requested by the MAAS folks I have now tested the following with some older proliant servers (tested with G7 and G9):
sed -i '/^workarounds= /s/"$/ --retransmissio n-timeout= 5000"/' /etc/maas/ templates/ power/ipmi. template
After applying this setting I see no negative impact on operation and in cases where impi was previously timing out I no longer see this problem.