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Hi Philip,

Thanks for the info IPMI. What I was searching for is how to prepare hardware for enrollment, which is lacking in the wiki I mentioned.

NEC BMC module actually has its own management Ethernet port and most settings can only be managed via the management boot CD. There is a webbased GUI but its mostly for monitoring and remote console only.

There are no options to set a IPMI username and password. 

Perhaps my hardware is too old for this type of usage.

Thanks for you help,
Jake






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 From: Philip Keogh <pkeogh at compusoftcs.com>
To: Jake G. <Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> 
Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org> 
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
 


iLO is just one of many vendor solutions that implements IPMI, an industry standard which NEC server BMCs also support. See http://support.express.nec.co.jp/wpaper/rwu/rwu.pdf for more info on that particular server line. 110Rh-1 supports IPMI 2.0.

On many systems there is simply a prompt during POST to configure the BMC, which often shares the primary NIC on lower end servers. You can use ipmitool to test connectivity, authentication and chassis power commands independent of OpenStack. See http://ipmitool.sourceforge.net/manpage.html for more.


Note the OpenStack wiki you linked references the IP and credentials for the IPMI interface, which is completely independent of any OS. I also recommend looking through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Platform_Management_Interface for more on the standard.
  

On Aug 23, 2013, at 1:01 AM, Jake G. <Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> wrote:

iLo is an HP product only.
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>On 2013/08/23, at 16:35, "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com> wrote:
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>>Irrespective of hardware it should work. Please use your ilo management IP Address, username & password for enrollment and proceed further.
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>>Thanks
>>Shanthakumar K
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>>From:Jake G. [mailto:Dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 1:00 PM
>>To: K, Shanthakumar
>>Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>>Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
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>>I wish I had ilo. My test hardware is not an HP server unfortunately.
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>>It's an older NEC Express5800/110Rh-1
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>>On 2013/08/23, at 16:27, "K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com> wrote:
>>I got your concern, Your physical hardware needs to be in iLO / power management. So that you will have management  ilo IP address, username and password to enroll your hardware.
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>>>FYI: You don’t need to have OS installed in your physical hardware to enroll hardware for your baremetal.
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>>>Thanks
>>>Shanthakumar K
>>> 
>>>From:Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
>>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 12:15 PM
>>>To: K, Shanthakumar
>>>Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>>> 
>>>I am sorry if my explanation was hard to follow.
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>>>In order to enroll my hardware, Openstack requires the Servers IP address, username and password.
>>>Since I have no OS installed on the hardware(physical server) I have no IP address and no username/password
>>> 
>>>On the hardware side only(not openstack) what needs to be done in order for Openstack to control the hardware?
>>> 
>>>Thanks
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>________________________________
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>>>From:"K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com>
>>>To: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> 
>>>Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org> 
>>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:32 PM
>>>Subject: RE: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>>> 
>>>Please refer the hardware enrollment section under https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal.
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>>>1.      Ensure your hardware is under same network backbone to communicate
>>>2.      Enroll the hardware properly as mentioned in the guide 
>>>3.      Nova baremetal driver will take care of the communication and you could see the logs in nova compute upon successful enrollment 
>>> 
>>>Thanks
>>>Shanthakumar K
>>> 
>>>From:Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
>>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 11:54 AM
>>>To: K, Shanthakumar
>>>Cc: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>>>Subject: Re: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>>> 
>>>I understand your points and that is taken care of, but how exactly is Openstack going to connect to the hardware if the hardware has no OS and no IP?
>>>How should the hardware be prepared so I can give Openstack the information it needs to enroll the hardware? 
>>> 
>>>Thanks,
>>>Jake
>>> 
>>> 
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>>>From:"K, Shanthakumar" <shanthakumar.k at hp.com>
>>>To: Jake G. <dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com> 
>>>Cc: "openstack at lists.openstack.org" <openstack at lists.openstack.org> 
>>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 3:08 PM
>>>Subject: RE: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>>> 
>>>Hi Jake,
>>> 
>>>Your physical hardware should be maximum enough to support your OS configurations and  baremetal flavor you have created.
>>> 
>>>Ex: 
>>>1.       Your physical hardware should contain minimum configurations to run an operating system
>>>2.       You need to take care of your Baremetal Flavor created WRT to your available hardware.
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>>> 
>>>Thanks
>>>Shanthakumar K
>>> 
>>>From:Jake G. [mailto:dj_dark_junglist at yahoo.com] 
>>>Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:07 AM
>>>To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
>>>Subject: [Openstack] Baremetal - Hardware preparation
>>> 
>>>Hi all,
>>> 
>>>I have been following this doc https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Baremetal#Image_Requirements 
>>>to setup openstack for baremetal provisioning. I have configured oopenstack properly, created an image,
>>>and now I am ready to enroll my physical hardware. However, there seems to be no mention of how to 
>>>prepare my physical hardware.
>>> 
>>>Does anyone know what is required and what is the process to prepare my hardware?
>>> 
>>>Thank you for your help,
>>>Jake
>>> 
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