Bug 1328497 - IBM BladeCenter not managable with IPMI
Summary: IBM BladeCenter not managable with IPMI
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Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Installation - RHELOSP
Version: 1.0
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: John Matthews
QA Contact: Dave Johnson
Dan Macpherson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-19 14:10 UTC by Nenad Peric
Modified: 2016-09-27 22:49 UTC (History)
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Description Nenad Peric 2016-04-19 14:10:34 UTC
Description of problem:

When trying to register nodes, the baremetal nodes belonging to an IBM BladeCenter Chassis are not discoverable through the current means of IPMI usage.

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How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Start the QCI OpenStack deployment
2. Get to 'Register Nodes' page
3. Try to get the nodes registered via IPMI. 

Actual results:

Cannot complete the registration of the nodes, since the form requires the fields of
 
hostname:
username:
password:

as mandatory. 

IBM BladeCenter IPMI uses OpenIPMI driver, and can access the management module from within the BladeCenter chassis from any of the blades by just executing the ipmitool command. No username or server has to be provided (adding those is actually counter productive).
An alternative route would be using ASU perhaps, since IBMs IPMI implementation does not allow out-of-band (remote) access to the chassis. 

Expected results:

Registration of the nodes possible on IBM BladeCenter hardware. 

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