Greetings folks,
For those that are unaware of it, Ironic has an snmp[0] hardware type which allows for the remote control of power ports on an PDU, which makes Ironic powerful for a variety of non-traditional computing hardware to be leveraged with Ironic.
If you are aware of this hardware type and happen to use it, you may want to engage with the Upstream community. Historically we've used a tool called virtualpdu[1] to facilitate testing, and we're facing some challenges with newer pysnmp[2] versions. These challenges have us wondering if there is value for us to fix virtualpdu and continue upstream testing. Realistically, if nobody steps forward to help maintain virtualpdu and the snmp hardware type, upstream testing may become limited or be discontinued for the snmp hardware type entirely, which is likely to impact users of this hardware type.
If you're interested in helping maintain the hardware type and its testing, please reach out to the Ironic team via the weekly team meeting[3].
Thanks,
-Julia