Redfish power support

Bug #1604513 reported by Sam Lee
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
MAAS
Fix Released
Wishlist
Newell Jensen

Bug Description

this is a wishlist

With HP and Dell (and others soon) supporting Redfish will allow a more reliable bare metal power state manipulator than IPMI.

Plus Redfish has the ability to read/write BIOS configurations allowing MAAS to do more than simply control power state.

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Andres Rodriguez (andreserl) wrote :

Hi Sam,

This has been discussed before and has been deferred to when there are manufacturers actually shipping nodes with Redfish and several users requesting this to be made available.

Thanks for filing the bug.

Changed in maas:
milestone: none → next
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Thiago Martins (martinx) wrote :

I also need this! :-D

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Tim S (timss) wrote :

Redfish is really starting to get a foothold now, and it's looking very good. Definitely seems useful if MAAS could be the go-to portal for not only inventory, power state etc. but also further details about hardware/chassis/BIOS using Redfish.

Not sure if I'd necessarily use MAAS as my daily driver over something like Ansible for modifying BIOS settings, but having the option would be nice. A more pressing matter perhaps could be the ability to verify correct settings for a newly discovered/installed server. Even if it's just a simple view for traversing the Redfish tree per server.

Either way, Redfish support in some shape or form sounds great!

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Evan Sikorski (evan.sikorski) wrote :

We are also seeking an alternative to IPMI, which has known compromised security and is a common finding by IT security companies in this day. We should not have to face security findings just to use your product.

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2013-4786/

It's time to provide a uncompromised alternative to IPMI, and to sunset IPMI support in enterprise IT.

https://github.com/dell/iDRAC-Redfish-Scripting/tree/master/Redfish%20Python

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Tom Mullaney (tpmullan) wrote :

It has been 2 years... Any updates?

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Evan Sikorski (evan.sikorski) wrote :
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khb (khbkhb) wrote :

Redfish has become increasingly common in our corporate environment. It is very disappointing to see this hasn't made progress in some years.

Changed in maas:
milestone: next → 2.6.0
assignee: nobody → Newell Jensen (newell-jensen)
Changed in maas:
status: Triaged → In Progress
Changed in maas:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Changed in maas:
milestone: 2.6.0 → 2.6.0alpha1
Changed in maas:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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