Feature #426: Ability to power cycle hosts - Foreman

Feature #426

Ability to power cycle hosts

Added by Bill Peck about 9 years ago. Updated over 6 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Ohad Levy

Category:

Power management

Target version:

1.2.0

Difficulty:

Triaged:

Bugzilla link:

Pull request:

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Description

Requesting the ability to control hosts power.

Requires:
allow for arbitrary power types (wti, apc_snmp, iLO, drac, etherwake, etc..)
storing config options
allow chaining power commands (power on then etherwake)

Arguments:
Off, On, Reboot

Related issues

Associated revisions

Revision 40df7dfb (diff)
Added by Daniel Lobato Garcia over 6 years ago

fixes #426 expose BMC information in foreman UI

Signed-off-by: Ohad Levy <ohadlevy@gmail.com>

This patch also adds an abstracted power management class for both VM
and BM

History

#1 Updated by Ohad Levy about 9 years ago

Category set to Power management

Bill Peck wrote:

Requesting the ability to control hosts power.

Requires:
allow for arbitrary power types (wti, apc_snmp, iLO, drac, etherwake, etc..)
storing config options
allow chaining power commands (power on then etherwake)

Would associating the hardware model to a script that accepts parameters (like mac, ip etc) is a good alternative?
or would you expect foreman to know how to configure each and every hardware type?