-other auth -pam if user exists but has no passphrase -keystone? -ad? (specialized to the AD case) -expressionkeys never gets smaller - perf impact -When a user account is changed, have httpapi and sockapi notified of changes to kill off related sessions. password changes are given a pass, but user deletion will result in immediate session termination -When the time comes to dole out configuration/discovery, take page from xCAT 'flexdiscover' command, if possible bring an ipmi device under management by way of ipv6 to eliminate requirement for ip to be specified. Requires the polling event support (which is required for security anyway) -this stack trace (happened with method was set to ""): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/wsgi.py", line 402, in handle_one_response for data in result: File "/home/jbjohnso/Development/confluent/confluent/httpapi.py", line 301, in resourcehandler cfgmgr, querydict) File "/home/jbjohnso/Development/confluent/confluent/pluginapi.py", line 273, in handle_path passvalue = pluginmap[plugpath].__dict__[operation]( KeyError: '' -have pyghmi and friends do multiprocessing pools -investigate console behavior when target off (causing disconnects/reconnects on input) -test to make sure that 'Session Disconnected' is working -confetty to do right thing with respect to status updates when run right on a console. It currently clutters up the screen with data that would land in a titlebar -audit log did not show confetty activity for starting console -read exclusive and full exclusive console access modes -when an http session exists, confluent cpu usage on my vm idles at 2 %. profile exactly what is spinning and try to make it nicer - an ipmi console was once stuck in 'connecting' state, no idea how, this traceback might have occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/hubs/hub.py", line 346, in fire_timers timer() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/hubs/timer.py", line 56, in __call__ cb(*args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/semaphore.py", line 121, in _do_acquire waiter.switch() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/eventlet/greenthread.py", line 194, in main result = function(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/confluent/consoleserver.py", line 177, in _connect_backend self._console.connect(self.get_console_output) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/confluent/plugins/hardwaremanagement/ipmi.py", line 143, in connect iohandler=self.handle_data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/console.py", line 65, in __init__ session.Session.wait_for_rsp(0) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 914, in wait_for_rsp cls._route_ipmiresponse(sockaddr, data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 991, in _route_ipmiresponse sockaddr=sockaddr) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 1035, in _handle_ipmi_packet self._handle_ipmi2_packet(data) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/pyghmi/ipmi/private/session.py", line 1063, in _handle_ipmi2_packet self.k1, rawdata[4:-12], hashlib.sha1).digest()[:12] File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/hmac.py", line 133, in new return HMAC(key, msg, digestmod) File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/hmac.py", line 68, in __init__ if len(key) > blocksize: TypeError: object of type 'NoneType' has no len()