Re: Feature request: ipmi

[Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime redhat com>]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 16:55 -0500, Jeffrey_L_Mendoza dell com wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I have a feature request for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features : ipmi functionality.
> 
> An immediate feature would be the ability to include freeipmi-bmc-watchdog. This would allow administrators to use the service processor/bmc to detect/report a stuck install.
> 
> Future use would be to have anaconda run ipmi commands to log install status: start, step completed, success, failure. Therefore having the service processor aware of the install status.
> 
> I assume this is accomplished by including the ipmi driver and ipmitool/freeipmi packages in the stage 2 image. I am in the process of familiarizing myself with the wiki:
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/SourceOverview
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Stage2DevelopmentGuide
Please note that many major changes were not reflected to these wiki
pages. I would recommend you to look directly at the code, in particular
the 'newui' branch in the git repository.

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Vratislav Podzimek

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