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On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Gao, Fengqian <fengqian.gao at intel.com>wrote:

>  Hi, Devananda,
>
> I agree with you that new features should be towards Ironic.
>
> As you asked why use Ironic instead of lm-sensors, actually I just want to
> use IPMI instead of lm-sensors. I think it is reasonable to put the IPMI
> part into Ironic and we already didJ.
>
>
>
> To get the sensors’ information, I think IPMI is much more powerful than
> lm-sensors.
>
> Firstly, IPMI is flexible.  Generally speaking, it provides two kinds of
> connections, in-bind and out-of-band.
>
> Out-of-band connection allows us to get sensors’ status even without OS
> and CPU.
>
> In-band connection is quite similar to lm-sensors, It needs the OS kernel
> to get sensor data.
>
> Secondly,  IPMI can gather more sensors’ information that lm-sensors and
> it is easy to use. From my own experience, using IPMI can get all the
> sensor information that lm-sensors could get, such as
> temperature/voltage/fan. Besides that, IPMI can get power data and some OEM
> specific sensor data.
>
> Thirdly, I think IPMI is a common spec for most of OEMs.  And most of
> servers are integrated with IPMI interface.
>
>
>
> As you sais, nova-compute is already supplying information to the
> scheduler and power/temperature should be gathered locally.  IPMI can be
> used locally, the in-band connection. And there is a lot of open source
> library, such as OpenIPMI, FreeIPMI, which provide the interfaces to OS,
> just like lm-sensors.
>
> So, I prefer to use IPMI than lm-sensors. Please leave your comments if
> you disagreeJ.
>
>
>
I see nothing wrong with nova-compute gathering such information locally.
Whether you use lm-sensors or in-band IPMI is an implementation detail of
how nova-compute would gather the information.

However, I don't see how this has anything to do with Ironic or the
nova-baremetal driver. These would gather information remotely (using
out-of-band IPMI) for hardware controlled and deployed by these services.
In most cases, nova-compute is not deployed by nova-compute (exception: if
you're running TripleO).

Hope that helps,
-Deva
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