[Blueprint servercloud-p-arm-system-management] Server System Mangement for ARM

[Robie Basak]

Blueprint changed by Robie Basak:

Whiteboard set to:
 ****WE NEED HARDWARE!!!!!!****
 
 *  IPMI
 
 ipmi tool / openipmi - do we need support for both?
  * Yes, but in terms of priority, OpenIPMI is higher
 
 No DMI - Intel only for PCI - not available on ARM?
DMI consumers:
  Landscape - serial number
  libvirt requires DMI
  monit
  Facter?
  SNMP
  lshw
  Any others?
  
DMI emulation will be out of scope for Precise.
IPMI consumers:
  Orchestra
  Cobbler
  Nagios
  SNMP
 Cluster stack / STONITH
  Any others?
Work Items:
1. Test OpenIPMI on ARM, including Orchestra and Cobbler which are IPMI consumers. Also consider Nagios. FreeIPMI, ipmitool
2. Equivalent of DMI for ARM (for serial number etc)
3. Upstart job for running serial login on correct serial port ttyS0 + ttyAMA (linaro builds have auto serial console)
  * http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.linaro.devel/7939
4. Calxeda to verify that OpenIPMI works on current hardware so this can be verified as early as possible in this cycle.
  
All of this is dependent on hardware.

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Server System Mangement for ARM
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-p-arm-system-management