MAAS packages should also pull in the tools necessary for power control

[Jeff Lane ]

I'm not sure, offhand, if MAAS pulls in ipmitool, but I KNOW it does not pull in amtterm (package containing amttool) when it is installed. This makes it rather impossible to control AMT based hardware unless you know to install amtterm as well as maas.

If the maas package is not also pulling in ipmitool that's doubly bad (but I think it does, TBH).

So anyway, the maas packaging just needs to be updated to trigger an install of any tool necessary for controlling power on nodes.

[dann frazier (dannf)]

MAAS does not pull in ipmitool by default (it is a "Suggests", due to ipmitool being in universe). While I understand that we can't add a strict dependency w/o including ipmitool in main, I do think it is an issue that it can cause MAAS to silently fail to work. IMO, there should minimally be some notification in the UI that warns a user when the tools required for a certain power type are not installed.

[Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)]

Dann, there is some work happening this cycle that will better report node lifecycle events to enable easier debugging of this sort of fault.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.