Comment 3 for bug 1789426

MAAS doesn't know which rack controller to use based on power management tools. MAAS has a mechanism in which it finds a rack controller that can communicate to the machine via the address of the BMC (e.g. checks that MAAS can reach to the machine via IP).

That said, we cannot enforce consistency because we cannot depend on packages that are not in main. In my particular issue, we use amt related tooling that is not in main, and hence, we cannot installed in the default package installation. This issue is solved with the use of the snap, because the snap includes all required packages.

And yes, I agree that we should surface. IN fact, I think we should actually do a check per rack controller to ensure it has all expected power tools and add warnings telling the user of the missing ones.