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Mini design of Redfish support
Background
To support Redfish interface for hardware control.
Node definition
Add new mgt type ‘redfish’. Definition: mgt=redfish
Table
Use the same table with openbmc, “#node,bmc,consport,taggedvlan,username,password,comments,disable".
Plugin file
/opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT_plugin/redfish.pm
/opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/AGENT.pm (move agent related part from /opt/xcat/lib/perl/xCAT/OPENBMC.pm here)
Python file (take rpower as example)
/opt/xcat/lib/python/agent/xcatagent/redfish.py
/opt/xcat/lib/python/agent/hwctl/executor/redfish_power.py
/opt/xcat/lib/python/agent/hwctl/redfish_client.py
The implementation details (take rpower as example)
The main code logic:
- redfish.pm
- Handle xcat command. (rpower on)
- Check command and node definition error.
- Collect all nodes’ bmc, bmcip, bmcusername, bmcpassword
- Call AGENT.pm to call python agent
- AGENT.pm
- Collect xcat attributes xcatdebugmode, verbose,cwd, envs
- Start agent.py and build socket with python part
- Send all information (nodes and xcat attributes) to python part
- Receive socket message from python part and print out
- redfish.py
- Receive all info from perl part
- Parse and check args
- Deal with command, call corresponding task
RedfishPowerTask
and method to deal with subcommand
- redfish_power.py
- Send request and receive response data by calling redfish_client.py
- Deal with response data to send message back to perl
- redfish_client.py
- Do real work of send request and receive response by requests method
- Deal with response, check error and raise error
RedfishPowerTask is sub class of ParallelNodesCommand, call gevent to deal with command for each node at the same time.
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.