Dell IPMI power problems

Ernest Martinez erniel29 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 19:22:45 UTC 2017


Let me dig up the logs.

Thanks
Ernie

On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 3:21 PM Mike Pontillo <mike.pontillo at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 11:41 AM, Ernest Martinez <erniel29 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 1. Nodes without DRAC card will not power cycle properly so cannot even
>> commission.
>> 2. Node with DRAC will commission, but cannot Deploy because it times out
>> before BIOS boot completes.
>>
>> For item 1. Does Wake on Lan need to be enabled?
>> For item 2. The BIOS boot is around 4 minutes, I haven't timed it. When I
>> select deploy, it powers up the node and it start the BIOS boot process but
>> MaaS times out before PXE boot can occur.
>>
>
> (1) That seems like a bug, either in MAAS or in the IMPI implementation. I
> wonder if it's related to this one that was just fixed for inclusion in
> MAAS 2.2.2. [1]
>
> (2) That's strange then, because I would expect that commissioning would
> time out after ~20 minutes and deployment would time out after ~40 minutes,
> if you are using the latest version of MAAS. (Which version of MAAS are you
> running?) It might be helpful to post the event log for the machines having
> the problem. The contents of /var/log/maas/*.log could also help diagnose
> the issue.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/maas/+bug/1609496
>
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