Dell IPMI power problems

[Andres Rodriguez]

Hi there Ernie,

Seen inline:




On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:41 PM, Ernest Martinez <erniel29 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have 2 separate issues here.
>
> 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?
>

The IPMI issues could be related to the BMC software itself. What could be
happening is that the BMC takes too long to tell MAAS "I'm on", hence MAAS
will think it is unable to power provided that MAAS made various attempts
and it failed to get any satisfactory response from the BMC. That said, to
work around a few older and buggier BMC's we've made yet a longer wait time
before we determine if the power action of MAAS was successful. This is in
[1], as Mike previously pointed out..


> 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.
>
>
This could be related to the above (e.g. MAAS powers on the node, MAAS
tries to query the BMC to check for status, but it cannot get an answer
from the BMC (or the answer that it gets from the BMC is that it is OFF),
hence MAAS marks the machine as failed deployment). This would be addressed
by [1] as well.

That said, without having proper logs for us to investigate we cannot
really know for sure what the problem is. As such, If you can attach the
following logs to the bug report you will file:

1. Console log of the machine if you have it.
2. /var/log/maas/*.log
3. /var/log/maas/rsyslog/<machine>/<date>/*
4. Event log for the machine

Hope this helps provide a bit more clarity.

[1]: https://code.launchpad.net/~andreserl/maas/+git/maas/+merge/327444


> Ernie
>
> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Mike Pontillo <
> mike.pontillo at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Ernest Martinez <erniel29 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes it is, but I believe that option is only available with a DRAC. Is
>>> DRAC a requirement?
>>>
>>> But that still doesnt address the failing to deploy on the one node with
>>> DRAC that I CAN commision but cannot DEPLOY because it's timing out before
>>> the server is done going through it's BIOS boot sequence. It also doesnt
>>> address the issue of the IPMI power configurations being overwritten.
>>>
>>
>> The only requirement should be a reachable IPMI interface; I don't think
>> you should need a specific management card as long as IMPI is reachable by
>> MAAS and compliant with industry standards.
>>
>> How long does your BIOS take to POST? I assume it's doing something along
>> the lines of checking a large amount of ECC RAM?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>
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Andres Rodriguez
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Canonical USA, Inc.
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