Comment 5 for bug 1635732

I don't have a Mitaka environment at hand to check and although looking at the Mitaka code, I don't see anything obvious moving the nodes to 'available' I suspect it was the default in the past as well, because "openstack baremetal introspection bulk start" takes nodes in 'available' state and moves them through the different states to run introspection. It would be good to confirm that the default didn't change though.

For what it's worth we're moving away from these commands exactly for this kind of reasons (see [1] for additional background information). A new import command was added during the Newton cycle that leaves the nodes in manageable state. Fom Ocata they should become the new default while the 'baremetal' commands will be deprecated.

$ openstack overcloud node import ~/instackenv.json

(There is also configure, provide and introspect in the same format for node management.)

[1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-May/095456.html