IPMI support

Razor has preliminary IPMI support integrated in the latest version.

To use this, you need to have the ipmitool(1) binary installed for your platform. We don't ship this, and unfortunately there are no Apache 2 license compatible Java or Ruby libraries that provide a native implementation rather than wrapping the external tool.

Each node can have associated IPMI credentials, set with the set-node-ipmi-credentials command; you must supply the hostname (or IP address) for the BMC, as this only works over the LANPLUS channel, and you can optionally supply a username, password, or both.

The only feature currently implemented is that an IPMI node will be regularly polled for power state, and that information is available as part of the node. Additional features will show up, so please file tickets for the IPMI operations you want to use but cannot.