Ironic inspector allows a level of auto discovery since Mitaka by registering unidentified nodes in Ironic. http://docs.openstack.org/developer/ironic-inspector/usage.html#discovery In some cases, this feature permits users to register and set the right information for all the nodes in Ironic without having to write an instackenv.json file. This could reduce considerably the time spent initially collecting the nodes' information(IPMI IPs for instance) and creating the instackenv.json. The process should be documented downstream to allow users take advantage of this feature.
Adding BZ#1362361 as a dependency. The feature is implemented and ironic-inspector could be manually configured but the code to have the Undercloud setting it up isn't merged yet.
This bugzilla has been removed from the release and needs to be reviewed for targeting another release.
Moving back to 'NEW' and unassigning to allow proper triage for 12.
Assigning to Martin for review.
Added feedback from tech review. Review is still ongoing.
Added new section for introspection rules, to handle different hw vendors (IPMI, DRAC)
added section for auto discovery requirements.
Added in changes from tech review.
LGTM!
Hi Martin, the document uses "ironic node-list", we should use the OSC and say "openstack baremetal node list" instead.
Dan added fix, thanks Dan!