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

[Jason Hobbs]

Blueprint changed by Jason Hobbs:

Whiteboard changed:
   ****WE NEED HARDWARE!!!!!!****
  
   *  IPMI
  
   ipmi tool / openipmi - do we need support for both?
    * Yes, but in terms of priority, OpenIPMI is higher
- [jason-hobbs 11/11/03 - What is driving OpenIPMI being a higher priority? Is there some demand from some end users or other applications for OpenIPMI over ipmitool?]
+ [jason-hobbs 11/11/03 - What is driving OpenIPMI being a higher priority? Is there some demand from some end users or other applications for OpenIPMI over ipmitool? From a quick look, cobbler and nagios support ipmitool, but I'm not sure they support OpenIPMI's ipmicmd.  Maybe OpenIPMI here is referring to the kernel driver that gives access to a local BMC?]
  
   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