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It may occur that the exit logout could get hung up for one reason or another. Change to opportunistically trying to logout. It would have to fail generally around 3 times within a minute for it to be a problem, so it is unlikely to ever be a problem should it fail. Change-Id: Ie32b2ae03618fe078e3965d9ee68dda962206bfe
pyghmi
Pyghmi is a pure Python (mostly IPMI) server management library.
Building and installing
(These instructions have been tested on CentOS 7)
Clone the repository, generate the RPM and install it:
$ git clone https://github.com/openstack/pyghmi.git
$ cd pyghmi/
$ python setup.py bdist_rpm
$ sudo rpm -ivh dist/pyghmi-*.noarch.rpm
Using
There are a few use examples in the bin folder:
fakebmc: simply fakes a BMC that supports a few IPMI commands (useful for testing)pyghmicons: a remote console based on SOL redirection over IPMIpyghmiutil: an IPMI client that supports a few direct uses of pyghmi (also useful for testing and prototyping new features)virshbmc: a BMC emulation wrapper using libvirt
Extending
If you plan on adding support for new features, you'll most likely be interested
in adding your methods to pyghmi/ipmi/command.py. See methods such as
get_users and set_power for examples of how to use internal mechanisms to
implement new features. And please, always document new methods.
Sometimes you may want to implement OEM-specific code. For example, retrieving firmware version information is not a part of standard IPMI, but some servers are known to support it via custom OEM commands. If this is the case, follow these steps:
- Add your generic retrieval function (stub) to the
OEMHandlerclass inpyghmi/ipmi/oem/generic.py. And please, document its intent, parameters and expected return values. - Implement the specific methods that your server supports in subdirectories in
the
oemfolder (consider thelenovosubmodule as an example). A OEM folder will contain at least one class inheriting fromOEMHandler, and optionally helpers for running and parsing custom OEM commands. - Register mapping policies in
pyghmi/ipmi/oem/lookup.pyso pyghmi knows how to associate a BMC session with the specific OEM code you implemented.
A good way of testing the new feature is using bin/pyghmiutil. Just add an
extension for the new feature you just implemented (as a new command) and call
it from the command line:
$ IPMIPASSWORD=passw0rd bin/pyghmiutil [BMC IP address] username my_new_feature_command