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Hi,  Jarda


>We are already prepared for multiple drivers. If you look at the >Driver

>field, there is a dropdown menu from which you can choose a driver and

>based on the selection the additional information (like IP, user, passw)

>will be changed.



 So, if "iLO + Virtual Media" is chosen in the dropdown menu, Horizon node
managmement panel will display "iLO Password" and "iLO user " instead of
"IPMI user" and "IPMI Password"?  This is great!





>>     Also, myself and a few folks are working on Ironic UEFI support and

>> we hope to land this feature in Juno (Spec is still in review state but

>> the feature is on the Ironic Juno Prioritized list). In order to add

>> UEFI boot feature, a "Supported Boot Modes" field in the hardware info

>> is needed.  The possible values are "BIOS Only", "UEFI Only", and

>> "BIOS+UEFI".   We will need to work with you to add this field onto

>> hardware info.



>There is no problem to accommodate this change in the UI once the

>back-end supports it. So if there is a desire to expose the feature in

>the UI, when there is already working back-end solution, feel free to

>send a patch which adds that to the HW info - it's an easy addition and

the UI is prepared for such types of expansions.



 ok.  Thanks!







wanyen



>Hi Wan,



>thanks for great notes. My response is inline:



>On 2014/15/07 23:19, Wan-yen Hsu wrote:

>> The "Register Nodes" panel uses "IPMI user" and "IPMI Password".

>> However, not all Ironic drivers use IPMI, for instance, some Ironic

>> drivers will use iLO or other BMC interfaces instead of IPMI.  I would

>> like to suggest changing "IPMI" to "BMC" or ""IPMI/BMC" to acomodate

>> more Ironic drivers.  The "Driver" field will reflect what power

>> management interface (e.g., IPMI + PXE, or iLO + Virtual Media) is used

>> so it can be used to correlate the user and password fields.



>We are already prepared for multiple drivers. If you look at the >Driver

>field, there is a dropdown menu from which you can choose a driver and

>based on the selection the additional information (like IP, user, passw)

>will be changed.



>>     Also, myself and a few folks are working on Ironic UEFI support and

>> we hope to land this feature in Juno (Spec is still in review state but

>> the feature is on the Ironic Juno Prioritized list). In order to add

>> UEFI boot feature, a "Supported Boot Modes" field in the hardware info

>> is needed.  The possible values are "BIOS Only", "UEFI Only", and

>> "BIOS+UEFI".   We will need to work with you to add this field onto

>> hardware info.



>There is no problem to accommodate this change in the UI once the

>back-end supports it. So if there is a desire to expose the feature in

>the UI, when there is already working back-end solution, feel free to

>send a patch which adds that to the HW info - it's an easy addition and

the UI is prepared for such types of expansions.





> Thanks!

>

> wanyen



Cheers

-- Jarda
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