[Linux-cluster] fence_ipmilan / custom hardware target address (ipmitool -t hexaddr)

[Marek Grac]

On 05/16/2014 02:04 AM, Digimer wrote:
> On 15/05/14 02:39 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am looking to adapt fence_ipmilan to interact with a custom
>> implementation of an IPMI BMC. Doing so requires the use of ipmitool's
>> -t option to bridge IPMI requests to a specified internal
>> (non-networked) hardware address.
>>
>> I do not see this option existing in fence_ipmilan or any of the other
>> fence_agents modules.
>>
>> The ipmitool operation would be '/path/to/ipmitool -t 0x42 chassis power
>> <operation>'. No network, IP, Auth, User, Password or other arguments
>> required.
>>
>> I want to check with the developers to see if there is an existing path
>> for this use case before submitting a patch for consideration.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> --Jeff
>
> Marek Grac, who I've cc'ed here, would be the best person to give 
> advice on this.
>
> As a user, I think a simple patch to add your option would be fine. I 
> do not believe (though stand to be corrected) that address, user or 
> password is currently required with fence_ipmilan.
>
> If I am wrong and it is required, then perhaps forking fence_ipmilan 
> to something like fence_ipmihw (or whatever) and then pushing it out 
> as a new agent should be easy and could work.
>
Currently, the IP address is required because we do not support 
self-fencing (as node can be in invalid state). How it works? Password 
and login are not required.

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