[Maas-devel] AMT Power issues

[Jeffrey Lane]

Thanks... For the record, I'm still trying to get info out of them (
they sound like they aren't even sure how to get the AMT IP address to
manually set up the power control ).

I'm working with Mark B to try to push them to give us a couple
examples to put in the lab so we can have actual AMT based servers
(not NUCs) to work with and try to improve this (if its at all
possible).

For now, I know they're on 1.7.0.  I was going to put them on 1.7.1,
but it's no longer in the stable ppa, apparently. Any idea when we'll
see either 1.7.1 or 1.7.2 pushed to stable, and then ported to trusty?

And also, once that happens, will users be forced to upgrade at that
point? (I have no issue with that, just want to know ahead of time to
prepare customers for the extra work in upgrading to 1.7.x.

Cheers,

Jeff

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:36 PM, Christian Robottom Reis
<kiko at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 05:28:23PM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 12:55:22PM -0200, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:
>> > > I have a group at Lenovo running MAAS 1.7.1 and they have a server
>> > > that uses AMT for management.  The issue they run into is that they
>> > > can PXE and successfully enlist BUT on reviewing the hardware after
>> > > enlistment the power type is not automatically set.
>> >
>> > We have yet to find a way to automatically determine the AMT parameters
>> > during the enlistment phase. We don't know of an in-band communication
>> > module on Linux, though apparently it can be done using a certificate
>> > (at least that's what the Technet docs suggest). If Lenovo can give us
>> > more information we'd love to address this issue.
>>
>> For background, the module on Linux which handles this is mei_me; the
>> documentation in the kernel tree says:
>
> FTR, I found the bug you had reported previously about this and duplicated it
> to the more recent bug which has some of this information:
>
>     https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1389799



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