iBoot driver¶
Overview¶
The iBoot power driver enables you to take advantage of power cycle management of nodes using Dataprobe iBoot devices over the DxP protocol.
Drivers¶
There are two iboot drivers:
- The
pxe_iboot
driver uses iBoot to control the power state of the node, PXE/iPXE technology for booting and the iSCSI methodology for deploying the node. - The
agent_iboot
driver uses iBoot to control the power state of the node, PXE/iPXE technology for booting and the Ironic Python Agent for deploying an image to the node.
Requirements¶
python-iboot
library should be installed - https://github.com/darkip/python-iboot
Tested platforms¶
- iBoot-G2
Configuring and enabling the driver¶
Add
pxe_iboot
and/oragent_iboot
to the list ofenabled_drivers
in /etc/ironic/ironic.conf. For example:[DEFAULT] ... enabled_drivers = pxe_iboot,agent_iboot
Restart the Ironic conductor service:
service ironic-conductor restart
Registering a node with the iBoot driver¶
Nodes configured for the iBoot driver should have the driver
property
set to pxe_iboot
or agent_iboot
.
The following configuration values are also required in driver_info
:
iboot_address
: The IP address of the iBoot PDU.iboot_username
: User name used for authentication.iboot_password
: Password used for authentication.
In addition, there are optional properties in driver_info
:
iboot_port
: iBoot PDU port. Defaults to 9100.iboot_relay_id
: iBoot PDU relay ID. This option is useful in order to support multiple nodes attached to a single PDU. Defaults to 1.
The following sequence of commands can be used to enroll a node with the iBoot driver.
Create node:
ironic node-create -d pxe_iboot -i iboot_username=<username> -i iboot_password=<password> -i iboot_address=<address>
References¶
[1] | iBoot-G2 official documentation - http://dataprobe.com/support_iboot-g2.html |