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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Bruno Cornec <Bruno.Cornec at hpe.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Vladyslav Drok said on Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:59:41PM +0200:
>
>> Hi list and Bruno,
>>
>> I’m interested in adding virtual media boot interface for redfish (
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/redfish-virtual-media-boot
>> ).
>> It depends on
>> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ironic/+spec/ironic-redfish
>> and a corresponding spec https://review.openstack.org/184653, that
>> proposes
>> adding support for redfish (adding new power and management interfaces) to
>> ironic. It also seems to depend on python-redfish client -
>> https://github.com/devananda/python-redfish.
>>
>
> Very good idea ;-)
>
> I’d like to know what is the current status of it?
>>
>
> We have made recently some successful tests with both a real HP ProLiant
> server with a redfish compliant iLO FW (2.30+) and the DMTF simulator.
>

Great news! :)


>
> The version working for these tests is at
> https://github.com/bcornec/python-redfish (prototype branch)
> I think we should now move that work into master and make again a pull
> request to Devananda.
>
> Is there some roadmap of what should be added to
>> python-redfish (or is the one mentioned in spec is still relevant)?
>>
>
> I think this is still relevant.
>
> Is there a way for others to contribute in it?
>>
>
> Feel free to git clone the repo and propose patches to it ! We would be
> happy to have contributors :-) I've also copied our mailing list to the
> other contributors are aware of this.


I'll dig into current code and will try to contribute something meaningful
then.


>
>
> Bruno, do you plan to move it
>> under ironic umbrella, or into pyghmi as people suggested in spec?
>>
>
> That's a difficult question. One one hand, I don't think python-redfish
> should be under the OpenStack umbrella per se. This is a useful python
> module to dialog with servers providing a Redfish interface and this has
> no relationship with OpenStack ... except that it's very useful for
> Ironic ! But could also be used by other projects in the future such as
> Hadoop for node deployment, or my MondoRescue Disaster Recovery project
> e.g. That's also why we have not used OpenStack modules in order to
> avoid to create an artificial dependency that could prevent that module
> tobe used py these other projects.
>
> I'm new to the python galaxy myself, but thought that pypy would be the
> right place for it, but I really welcome suggestions here.
> I also need to come back to the Redfish spec itself and upate with the
> atest feedback we got, in order to have more up to date content for the
> Mitaka cycle.
>
> Best regards,
> Bruno.
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Thanks for the answers :)
Vlad
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