A provider for publishing Management Controller (Service Processor) information

Russell Doty rdoty at redhat.com
Fri Nov 1 14:48:44 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-10-31 at 16:39 -0500, Praveen_Paladugu at Dell.com wrote:
> Thought I would have some information to get on this by now. I have a
> lot more information (than I expected) to sort through and will need
> quite a bit of time to sort through L. 
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> I don’t want to hold back this effort any longer. For now let us
> proceed with implementing a generic class like
> “BMC_ManagementController”. If we (Dell or other vendors)  see a need
> to a have different class with attributes named differently or extend
> the attributed for BMC class, we add a new class by inheriting the
> BMC_ManagementController class. 
> 
> I am guessing the primary source for populating the BMC information
> will be IPMI? Putting together the information from Russ and Klaus,
> following seem to be attributes we want to capture:
> 
> * BMC manufacturer, make, model, revision, and firmware level.
> 
> * BMC IP address
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> * BMC URL
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> * Protocols Supported (This might be tough, will have to check if this
> info is exported via IPMI)
> 
Looks like a good start to me. I would suggest building a basic provider
with this information and making it available, then seeing what else
people need.

Russ
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> Some more properties looking at the iDARC Class
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> ·         Fully Qualified Domain Name, if applicable
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> ·         LANStateEnabled or Disabled?
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> Any thoughts?
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> Thank you 
> Praveen K Paladugu 
> Dell Linux Engineering 
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