[Maas-devel] Node states

[Julian Edwards]

On Friday 03 February 2012 14:54:26 Matthew Revell wrote:
> The "Bad" states haven't really come up in conversation but they seem
> to me to be necessary.

I agree, I think BAD should be exapanded to MISSING and FAILED_TESTS though.

> There is some fuzziness around "Retired": is a retired node one which
> has been taken out of action manually, for whatever reasons, or is it
> a node that was previously declared and has been torn down? From our
> discussions in Budapest, the first of these makes most sense to me.
> Also, I believe a deployed node simply becomes declared once it has
> been torn down.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your comments.

Retired is a manual action where a machine is manually removed from use.  So 
your assumption is correct there.