Bug 1733676

Summary:	[RFE] automatic power off by default
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Dan Kenigsberg <danken>
Component:	general	Assignee:	beaker-dev-list
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	develop	CC:	bpeck, cbouchar, dfediuck, mastyk, tklohna
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Description Dan Kenigsberg 2019-07-27 08:03:10 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently, it is quite common to find unused hosts that are up for months, wasting money and energy.

Feature request:
Every Beaker host should have a default shutdown deadline of (say) 30 days since its most recent Beaker usage. The owner of the machine should be able to set a longer deadline (even of 5 years). Lab manager may search for hosts with distant-future deadlines, and ask their owners for their reasoning.

Comment 1 Tomas Klohna 🔧 2019-10-01 13:01:01 UTC

Dan, what do you mean "up"? Default power settings in most hosts are set to "Power off". Any other settings need to be discussed with Labs. Are we talking about machines that are loaned/reserved?

Comment 2 Dan Kenigsberg 2019-10-23 02:38:59 UTC

Yes, by "up" I mean "with power on". I'm not sure what you're saying about "default power settings" and where are they being set.

When I loan/reserve a machine, or when I simply own a machine, I'd like to set its shutdown interval (say 30 days since borrower/reserver/owner modifies it in Beaker. When that time passes, Beaker would shut the host down.

I do not want to discuss it with lab technicians; I'd like to give each host owner the flexibility to set their own deadline. Lab technicians can still search and find if someone is abusing it.

Comment 4 Dan Kenigsberg 2019-11-07 11:07:12 UTC

Thanks for letting me know of "Release Action: PowerOff"

Yes, I would like to have the *ability* to set a timer to shut down machines that are still on active loan.
Alternatively, I'd like to be able to set a timer on the loan itself. If I am the owner of the machine, I'd like to explicitly set the length of the loan.

I understand that some users would like infinite loans and uptime. Fine. But many other want to save power costs, but simply forget to return their loan.

Comment 5 Tomas Klohna 🔧 2019-11-07 14:29:02 UTC

In that case Dan I think we can work on that!

There is already a request for time-based loans - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651479
I will be closing this issue as a duplicate of that one.

If you're interested in any other loan issue request, there are also these two RFEs:
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=651477
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324974

We need to create a design proposal around this first, but it will be handled.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 651479 ***