[Maas-devel] RFC: "Serialising" power actions

[Jeroen Vermeulen]

On 17/09/14 14:39, Raphaël Badin wrote:

> We want MAAS to be the tool through which you control the power state of
> the nodes; that's why we should *flag* deployed nodes that seem to be in
> the wrong power state.  That being said, I don't think we can rule out
> the possibility that a deployed server's power state will be controlled
> externally; this is mostly a matter of blending in with existing tooling
> and practices.

I agree.  A user who owns a node is perfectly within their rights to
issue a “shutdown -h” in a shell on that node.  If that weren't the
case, we wouldn't have had so many concerns over DHCP leases expiring.


Jeroen