Checking the Bare Metal Instance Management Drivers

After all services are correctly configured, you should register the hardware nodes for the bare metal instances in the BMS so that the compute service can schedule the bare metal physical server resources. After the bare metal server hardware nodes are registered, provision_state in the bare metal instance management node is available. In this case, the Compute service can discover the bare metal instance nodes and perform subsequent operations such as instance creation.

After a node is registered using the BMS, the system does not immediately notify the Compute service of the new resource. The system updates the resource information only after the next scheduled task of the Compute service is complete. You can also run the following command to enable the Compute service to discover the bare metal server node resource.

ova-manage cell_v2 discover_hosts --by-service

Perform the following operations on the controller node.

When registering a node, you need to select the bare metal instance management drivers.

1. Query the bare metal instance management drivers supported by the current node.

   1	openstack baremetal driver list

   

2. Check the information about the management driver, including the available and default values of the interface options supported by the management driver.

   1	openstack baremetal driver show ipmi

   

3. Check the attribute configuration of the management driver.

   Each management driver has a management driver property list. You need to specify the property in the driver_info field on the bare metal instance management node so that the management driver can run on the management node. This list contains the properties and their description of the hardware interfaces used by the management driver. The mandatory items must be specified on the bare metal instance management node.

   1	openstack baremetal driver property list ipmi