Bug 1266224

Description of problem:
When running fusor-installer, there's a newer option at the end for BMC (from the docs, Baseboard management controllers).

The strings I've seen so far for it are:
1. Change BMC feature enabled
2. Do not change bmc feature enabled

which can be true or false (anything else?)


3. Change BMC default provider

which can be ipmitool or freeipmi (anything else?)

The second BMC feature string has a few issues, it's too long to fit neatly in with the rest of fusor-installer, and can't match the alignment used throughout the rest of the steps, and bmc is lower-cased, rather than upper-cased like an acronym and doesn't match the first string. The first and second string don't give you any context on what they're used for, if you don't already know (a tough task for a character constrained terminal string, but it'd be nice if we tried to help a little bit).

Can we simplify the strings used? Could it just be "Configure BMC for baremetal" and it would be true or false? "Do not change [x] enabled" true/false is confusing, I think we're making things more complicated by allowing the string to change than if we kept it static, and relied on the value (true/false) to tell us what we're doing. The current strings make no mention of baremetal, which from the doc appears to be what forces your decision on if you want to enable it or not.

Likewise, "Change BMC default provider" could probably be simplified. Having the Change prefix there makes me expect a true/false answer, but it looks like we supply what the provider is. Is the default ipmitool, or by default does fusor want to change it from the default to ipmitool?

Could we simplify that string to just be "BMC provider for baremetal" or "BMC provider"? and the value would remain ipmitool or freeipmi. Are there other providers that could be entered?

I think the BMC related strings could be cleaned up a bit to be more intuitive and fit better into fusor-installer. If I'm wrong about baremetal being the key issue, let me know and we can try to think of how to tweak the strings.

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