MAAS Web UI doesn't allow specifying soft stop_mode

[Drew Freiberger]

In the MAAS API and CLI, we can specify stop_mode=soft when performing a power-off, however, the Web UI automatically performs a hard power off when selecting Action -> Power Off.

It would be helpful for performing shutdown of a large number of nodes via the Web UI to be able to specify a software power-down rather than force power-off.

[Garrett Neugent (thogarre)]

In addition, changing the text might be more helpful as well, maybe something like:

Take Action -> Shutdown Gracefully
Take Action -> Force Power Off

[Lee Trager (ltrager)]

One thing to keep in mind is that soft power off is currently only supported for IPMI power types. All other power types will do a hard power off even if soft is specified.

[Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski)]

This may require UX involvement.

[Thorsten Merten (thorsten-merten)]

Unfortunately, it seems that the WebSocket API does not support the same parameters that the REST API does. Needs to be resolved in Core first

[Thorsten Merten (thorsten-merten)]

This is blocked on the backend and adding the functionality to the websocket for maas-ui: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1999152

[Adam Collard (adam-collard)]

That bug has been fixed, UI is unblocked