Fwd: Dell IPMI power problems

[Ernest Martinez]

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.

Thanks

Ernie

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Mike Pontillo <mike.pontillo at canonical.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:02 PM, Ernest Martinez <erniel29 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have 5 Dell 2950 PowerEdge servers only 1 of the servers has a DRAC,
>> the rest just rely on BMC.
>>
>> I can successfully PXE boot the servers from the MaaS controller and when
>> completed it powers down the node and I can see the nodes in the MaaS nodes
>> page. When I page over to the node, I see that the IPMI setting are filled
>> in except for the MAC address. However when I try to commission the node it
>> fails with a power fault condition and I cannot power up the nodes with
>> MaaS, however MaaS DOES detect if I power up the node manually. I've tried
>> IPMI 1.5 and 2.0.
>>
>> I also tried to configure the power setting to "Manual" but on a
>> subsequent boot, MaaS overwrites the power settings, and then it reverts to
>> the previously described behavior.
>>
>> I got a somewhat different behavior with the Server WITH the DRAC module.
>> In that case The IPMI settings were not set and I had to set them by hand,
>> but once set, I was able to commission the node, but it would fail on
>> deploy with a timeout. In this instance it seems like MaaS just wasn't
>> waiting long enough for the server to go through its lengthy BIOS boot.
>>
>> I'm running the 16.04 distro.
>>
>
> The first thing I would check is if IPMI over LAN is enabled[1]. If that's
> what the problem is, it's worth noting that in MAAS 2.3, we've landed code
> that should automatically enable it when the node is enlisted, so that we
> can avoid this issue[2].
>
> Please let us know if that helps.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
> [1]: https://askubuntu.com/questions/625174/maas-power-on-
> problem-idrac-ipmi-2-0
> [2]: https://code.launchpad.net/~andreserl/maas/+git/maas/+merge/327264
>
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