[Maas-devel] Preparations for scaling out - defaulting

[Julian Edwards]

On Tuesday 29 May 2012 08:58:41 Jeroen Vermeulen wrote:
> On 2012-05-25 16:26, Dave Walker wrote:
> >     - Environment tries to discover if it knows of it's own power type
> >     
> >       - If IPMI:
> >         - Request from MAAS sane defaults for the ipmi tables
> >         - Set the local IPMI parameters in the server BMC (akin to
> >         
> >           'burning into firmware')
> >         
> >         - Post back results.
> 
> I do sometimes wonder whether there would be anything wrong with simply
> throwing every available power method at a node.  I'd expect the
> non-applicable ones to have no effect, but even if they did, would it
> matter?

You need to know the power parameters, which are different for each method, 
and some are not discoverable.