JNLP Access to BMC On Fedora

Ampere has two models of Servers out: Falcon and Mt. Jades. The Falcons are the older one, and make up many of our utility servers.

I recently had to get in to a serial console on the machine. The IPMI address hosts a web console. From that you can get a serial console on the server, but you need JNLP, which stands for Java Net Launch Protocol. It is implemented by IcedTea in OpenJDK: icedtea-web is the name of the RPM on Fedora 34.

bkr job status

Here’s a one liner for showing the status of all your beaker jobs.

for JOB in $( bkr job-list -o $( bkr whoami | jq -r '.username' )  | jq -r ".[]"   ) ; do bkr job-results $JOB | xpath -q -e "string(/job/recipeSet/recipe/@status)" ; done

Select only the Jades

Some custom jq for RegEx selection of OpenStack Ironic baremetal nodes. Our Server types show up in their names. I want to be able to build lists of only the Mt. Jade Servers, which have names that look like this:

jade09-r097

openstack baremetal node list  --sort provision_state:asc   -c UUID -c Name -f json | jq '.[] | select(.Name | test("jade."))'

Debugging a Clean Failure in Ironic

My team is running a small OpenStack cluster with reposnsibility for providing bare metal nodes via Ironic. Currently, we have a handful of nodes that are not usable. They show up as “Cleaning failed.” I’m learning how to debug this process.

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