iBoot driver

Overview

The iBoot power driver enables you to take advantage of power cycle management of nodes using Dataprobe iBoot devices over the DxP protocol.

The staging-iboot hardware type uses iBoot to manage power of the nodes.

Requirements

• python-iboot library should be installed - https://github.com/darkip/python-iboot

Tested platforms

• iBoot-G2 [1]

Configuring and enabling

1. Add staging-iboot to enabled_hardware_types and enabled_power_interfaces in /etc/ironic/ironic.conf. Also enable the fake management interface. For example:

   [DEFAULT]
   enabled_hardware_types = staging-iboot,ipmi
   enabled_management_interfaces = fake,ipmitool
   enabled_power_interfaces = staging-iboot,ipmitool
   

2. Restart the Ironic conductor service:

   service ironic-conductor restart

Registering a node

Nodes configured for the iBoot driver should have the driver property set to staging-iboot.

The following configuration values are also required in driver_info:

• iboot_address: The IP address of the iBoot PDU.
• iboot_username: User name used for authentication.
• iboot_password: Password used for authentication.

In addition, there are optional properties in driver_info:

• iboot_port: iBoot PDU port. Defaults to 9100.
• iboot_relay_id: iBoot PDU relay ID. This option is useful in order to support multiple nodes attached to a single PDU. Defaults to 1.

The following sequence of commands can be used to enroll a node with the iBoot driver.

1. Create node:

   openstack baremetal node create --driver staging-iboot \
       --driver-info iboot_username=<username> \
       --driver-info iboot_password=<password> \
       --driver-info iboot_address=<address>

References

[1]	iBoot-G2 official documentation - http://dataprobe.com/support_iboot-g2.html