power error on some servers with status "new"

[Marcus Wellnitz]

On a servers first PXE-boot cloud-init creates a new user for the BMC (not only) to remote power on the Server. If the ipmi-over-lan is disabled maas is not enabling the feature. That leads to an 'power error' (IPMI is configured but not available via network)

For every Dell server ipmi-over-lan is disabled by default.

The solution I found out is very easy using `bmc_set`:

in ~/provisioningserver/templates/commissioning-user-data/snippets/maas_ipmi_autodetect.py

add a function:
def bmc_set_lan_channel_always_available():
    bmc_set('Lan_Channel:Volatile_Access_Mode', "Always_Available")
    bmc_set('Lan_Channel:Non_Volatile_Access_Mode', "Always_Available")

in main() after "configure_ipmi_user(IPMI_MAAS_USER, IPMI_MAAS_PASSWORD)"
include "bmc_set_lan_channel_always_available()"

[Marcus Wellnitz (mwellnitz)]

affects python3-maas-provisioningserver