[Maas-devel] Preparations for scaling out - defaulting

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 2012-05-25 16:26, Dave Walker wrote:

>     - Environment tries to discover if it knows of it's own power type
>       - If IPMI:
>         - Request from MAAS sane defaults for the ipmi tables
>         - Set the local IPMI parameters in the server BMC (akin to
>           'burning into firmware')
>         - Post back results.

I do sometimes wonder whether there would be anything wrong with simply 
throwing every available power method at a node.  I'd expect the 
non-applicable ones to have no effect, but even if they did, would it 
matter?


Jeroen