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On 11/19/2015 11:57 AM, Sam Betts (sambetts) wrote:
> What Yuiko has described makes a lot of sense, and from that perspective
> perhaps instead of us defining what driver a node should and shouldn’t
> be using a config file, we should just provide a guide to using the
> inspector rules for this and maybe some prewritten rules that can set
> the driver and driver info etc fields for different cases?
>
> Then the work flow would be, default to Fake driver because we don’t
> need any special info for that, however if a rule detects that its
> IPMIable by making sure that the IPMI address is valid or something,
> then it can set the driver to an ipmitool one and then set the password
> and username based on either a retrieved field or values defined in the
> rule itself.

Using introspection rules, wow! That's a really nice idea, I would why I 
didn't think about it.

>
> WDYT?

That sounds really promising, and simplifies our life a lot. I would 
love to see all these ideas written. Do you folks think it's time for 
ironic-inspector-specs repo? :D

>
> Sam
>
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