Chapter 5. Administering bare metal nodes After you deploy an overcloud that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic), you can provision a physical machine on an enrolled bare metal node and launch bare metal instances in your overcloud. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . 5.1. Launching bare metal instances You can launch instances either from the command line or from the OpenStack dashboard. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . 5.1.1. Launching instances with the command line interface You can create a bare-metal instance by using the OpenStack Client CLI. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure Configure the shell to access the Identity service (keystone) as the administrative user: Create your bare-metal instance: Replace <network_uuid> with the unique identifier for the network that you created to use with the Bare Metal Provisioning service. Replace <image_uuid> with the unique identifier for the image that has the software profile that your instance requires. Check the status of the instance: 5.1.2. Launching instances with the dashboard Use the dashboard graphical user interface to deploy a bare metal instance. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure Log in to the dashboard at http[s]:// DASHBOARD_IP /dashboard . Click Project > Compute > Instances Click Launch Instance . In the Details tab, specify the Instance Name and select 1 for Count . In the Source tab, select an Image from Select Boot Source , then click the + (plus) symbol to select an operating system disk image. The image that you choose moves to Allocated . In the Flavor tab, select baremetal . In the Networks tab, use the + (plus) and - (minus) buttons to move required networks from Available to Allocated . Ensure that the shared network that you created for the Bare Metal Provisioning service is selected here. If you want to assign the instance to a security group, in the Security Groups tab, use the arrow to move the group to Allocated . Click Launch Instance . 5.1.3. Booting an ISO image directly for use as a RAM disk You can boot a bare-metal instance from a RAM disk or an ISO image if you want to boot an instance with PXE, iPXE, or Virtual Media, and use the instance memory for local storage. This is useful for advanced scientific and ephemeral workloads where writing an image to the local storage is not required or desired. Prerequisites Your overcloud deployment is configured to enable ISO boot for bare-metal instances. For more information, see Enabling ISO boot for bare-metal instances . Procedure Source your overcloud credentials file: Replace <credentials_file> with the name of your credentials file, for example, overcloudrc . Specify ramdisk as the deploy interface for the bare-metal instance that boots from an ISO image: Tip You can configure the deploy interface when you create the bare-metal instance by adding --deploy-interface ramdisk to the openstack baremetal node create command. For information on how to create a bare-metal instance, see Enrolling a bare-metal node manually . Update the bare-metal node to boot an ISO image: Replace <node_UUID> with the UUID of the bare-metal node that you want to boot from an ISO image. Replace <boot_iso_url> with the URL of the boot ISO file. You can specify the boot ISO file URL by using one of the following methods: HTTP or HTTPS URL File path URL Image service (glance) object UUID Deploy the bare-metal node as an ISO image: 5.2. Configuring port groups in the Bare Metal Provisioning service Note Port group functionality for bare metal nodes is available in this release as a Technology Preview , and therefore is not fully supported by Red Hat. It should be used only for testing, and should not be deployed in a production environment. For more information about Technology Preview features, see Scope of Coverage Details . Port groups (bonds) provide a method to aggregate multiple network interfaces into a single 'bonded' interface. Port group configuration always takes precedence over an individual port configuration. If a port group has a physical network, then all the ports in that port group must have the same physical network. The Bare Metal Provisioning service uses configdrive to support configuration of port groups in the instances. Note Bare Metal Provisioning service API version 1.26 supports port group configuration. .Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . 5.2.1. Configuring port groups on switches manually To configure port groups in a bare metal deployment, you must configure the port groups on the switches manually. You must ensure that the mode and properties on the switch correspond to the mode and properties on the bare metal side as the naming can vary on the switch. Note You cannot use port groups for provisioning and cleaning if you need to boot a deployment using iPXE. With port group fallback, all the ports in a port group can fallback to individual switch ports when a connection fails. Based on whether a switch supports port group fallback or not, you can use the --support-standalone-ports and --unsupport-standalone-ports options. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . 5.2.2. Configuring port groups in the Bare Metal Provisioning service Create a port group to aggregate multiple network interfaces into a single bonded interface . Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure Create a port group by specifying the node to which it belongs, its name, address, mode, properties and whether it supports fallback to standalone ports. You can also use the openstack baremetal port group set command to update a port group. If you do not specify an address, the deployed instance port group address is the same as the OpenStack Networking port. If you do not attach the neutron port, the port group configuration fails. During interface attachment, port groups have a higher priority than the ports, so they are used first. Currently, it is not possible to specify whether a port group or a port is desired in an interface attachment request. Port groups that do not have any ports are ignored. Note You must configure port groups manually in standalone mode either in the image or by generating the configdrive and adding it to the node's instance_info . Ensure that you have cloud-init version 0.7.7 or later for the port group configuration to work. Associate a port with a port group: During port creation: During port update: Boot an instance by providing an image that has cloud-init or supports bonding. To check if the port group is configured properly, run the following command: Here, X is a number that cloud-init generates automatically for each configured port group, starting with a 0 and incremented by one for each configured port group. 5.3. Determining the host to IP address mapping Use the following commands to determine which IP addresses are assigned to which host and bare metal node. With these commands, you can view the host to IP mapping from the undercloud without accessing the hosts directly. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure Run the following command to display the IP address for each host: To filter a particular host, run the following command: To map the hosts to bare metal nodes, run the following command: 5.4. Attaching and detaching virtual network interfaces The Bare Metal Provisioning service has an API that you can use to manage the mapping between virtual network interfaces. For example, the interfaces in the OpenStack Networking service and your physical interfaces (NICs). You can configure these interfaces for each Bare Metal Provisioning node to set the virtual network interface (VIF) to physical network interface (PIF) mapping logic. To configure the interfaces, use the openstack baremetal node vif* commands. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure List the VIF IDs currently connected to the bare metal node: After the VIF is attached, the Bare Metal Provisioning service updates the virtual port in the OpenStack Networking service with the actual MAC address of the physical port. Check this port address: Create a new port on the network where you created the baremetal-0 node: Remove a port from the instance: Check that the IP address no longer exists on the list: Check if there are VIFs attached to the node: Add the newly created port: Verify that the new IP address shows the new port: Check if the VIF ID is the UUID of the new port: Check if the OpenStack Networking port MAC address is updated and matches one of the Bare Metal Provisioning service ports: Reboot the bare metal node so that it recognizes the new IP address: After you detach or attach interfaces, the bare metal OS removes, adds, or modifies the network interfaces that have changed. When you replace a port, a DHCP request obtains the new IP address, but this might take some time because the old DHCP lease is still valid. To initiate these changes immediately, reboot the bare metal host. 5.5. Configuring notifications for the Bare Metal Provisioning service You can configure the Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic) to display notifications for different events that occur within the service. External services can use these notifications for billing purposes, monitoring a data store, and other purposes. To enable notifications for the Bare Metal Provisioning service, you must set the following options in your ironic.conf configuration file. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure The notification_level option in the [DEFAULT] section determines the minimum priority level for which notifications are sent. You can set the values for this option to debug , info , warning , error , or critical . If the option is set to warning , all notifications with priority level warning , error , or critical are sent, but not notifications with priority level debug or info . If this option is not set, no notifications are sent. The priority level of each available notification is documented below. The transport_url option in the [oslo_messaging_notifications] section determines the message bus used when sending notifications. If this is not set, the default transport used for RPC is used. All notifications are emitted on the ironic_versioned_notifications topic in the message bus. Generally, each type of message that traverses the message bus is associated with a topic that describes the contents of the message. 5.6. Configuring automatic power fault recovery The Bare Metal Provisioning service (ironic) has a string field fault that records power, cleaning, and rescue abort failures for nodes. Table 5.1. Ironic node faults Fault Description power failure The node is in maintenance mode due to power sync failures that exceed the maximum number of retries. clean failure The node is in maintenance mode due to the failure of a cleaning operation. rescue abort failure The node is in maintenance mode due to the failure of a cleaning operation during rescue abort. none There is no fault present. Conductor checks the value of this field periodically. If the conductor detects a power failure state and can successfully restore power to the node, the node is removed from maintenance mode and restored to operation. Note If the operator places a node in maintenance mode manually, the conductor does not automatically remove the node from maintenance mode. The default interval is 300 seconds, however, you can configure this interval with director using hieradata. Prerequisites A successful overcloud deployment that includes the Bare Metal Provisioning service. For more information, see Deploying an overcloud with the Bare Metal Provisioning service . Procedure Include the following hieradata to configure a custom recovery interval: To disable automatic power fault recovery, set the value to 0 . 5.7. Introspecting overcloud nodes Perform introspection of overcloud nodes to identify and store the specification of your nodes in director. Procedure Log in to the undercloud host as the stack user. Source the overcloudrc credentials file: Run the introspection command: Replace <NODENAME> with the name or UUID of the node that you want to inspect. Check the introspection status: Replace <NODENAME> with the name or UUID of the node. steps Extract introspection data: Replace <NODENAME> with the name or UUID of the node.

Commands:
source ~/overcloudrc
openstack server create --nic net-id=<network_uuid> --flavor baremetal --image <image_uuid> myBareMetalInstance
openstack server list --name myBareMetalInstance
source ~/<credentials_file>
openstack baremetal node set --deploy-interface ramdisk
openstack baremetal node set <node_UUID> --instance-info boot_iso=<boot_iso_url>
openstack baremetal node deploy <node_UUID>
openstack baremetal port group create --node NODE_UUID --name NAME --address MAC_ADDRESS --mode MODE --property miimon=100 --property xmit_hash_policy="layer2+3" --support-standalone-ports
openstack baremetal port create --node NODE_UUID --address MAC_ADDRESS --port-group test
openstack baremetal port set PORT_UUID --port-group PORT_GROUP_UUID
cat /proc/net/bonding/bondX
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD openstack stack output show overcloud HostsEntry --max-width 80 +--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+ | description | The content that should be appended to your /etc/hosts if you | | | want to get | | | hostname-based access to the deployed nodes (useful for | | | testing without | | | setting up a DNS). | | | | | output_key | HostsEntry | | output_value | 172.17.0.10 overcloud-controller-0.localdomain overcloud- | | | controller-0 | | | 10.8.145.18 overcloud-controller-0.external.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.external | | | 172.17.0.10 overcloud-controller-0.internalapi.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.internalapi | | | 172.18.0.15 overcloud-controller-0.storage.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.storage | | | 172.21.2.12 overcloud-controller-0.storagemgmt.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.storagemgmt | | | 172.16.0.15 overcloud-controller-0.tenant.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.tenant | | | 10.8.146.13 overcloud-controller-0.management.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.management | | | 10.8.146.13 overcloud-controller-0.ctlplane.localdomain | | | overcloud-controller-0.ctlplane | | | | | | 172.17.0.21 overcloud-compute-0.localdomain overcloud- | | | compute-0 | | | 10.8.146.12 overcloud-compute-0.external.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.external | | | 172.17.0.21 overcloud-compute-0.internalapi.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.internalapi | | | 172.18.0.20 overcloud-compute-0.storage.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.storage | | | 10.8.146.12 overcloud-compute-0.storagemgmt.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.storagemgmt | | | 172.16.0.16 overcloud-compute-0.tenant.localdomain overcloud- | | | compute-0.tenant | | | 10.8.146.12 overcloud-compute-0.management.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.management | | | 10.8.146.12 overcloud-compute-0.ctlplane.localdomain | | | overcloud-compute-0.ctlplane | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 10.8.145.16 overcloud.localdomain | | | 10.8.146.7 overcloud.ctlplane.localdomain | | | 172.17.0.19 overcloud.internalapi.localdomain | | | 172.18.0.19 overcloud.storage.localdomain | | | 172.21.2.16 overcloud.storagemgmt.localdomain | +--------------+---------------------------------------------------------------+
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD openstack stack output show overcloud HostsEntry -c output_value -f value | grep overcloud-controller-0 172.17.0.12 overcloud-controller-0.localdomain overcloud-controller-0 10.8.145.18 overcloud-controller-0.external.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.external 172.17.0.12 overcloud-controller-0.internalapi.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.internalapi 172.18.0.12 overcloud-controller-0.storage.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.storage 172.21.2.13 overcloud-controller-0.storagemgmt.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.storagemgmt 172.16.0.19 overcloud-controller-0.tenant.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.tenant 10.8.146.13 overcloud-controller-0.management.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.management 10.8.146.13 overcloud-controller-0.ctlplane.localdomain overcloud-controller-0.ctlplane
(undercloud) [stack@host01 ~]USD openstack baremetal node list --fields uuid name instance_info -f json [ { "UUID": "c0d2568e-1825-4d34-96ec-f08bbf0ba7ae", "Instance Info": { "root_gb": "40", "display_name": "overcloud-compute-0", "image_source": "24a33990-e65a-4235-9620-9243bcff67a2", "capabilities": "{\"boot_option\": \"local\"}", "memory_mb": "4096", "vcpus": "1", "local_gb": "557", "configdrive": "******", "swap_mb": "0", "nova_host_id": "host01.lab.local" }, "Name": "host2" }, { "UUID": "8c3faec8-bc05-401c-8956-99c40cdea97d", "Instance Info": { "root_gb": "40", "display_name": "overcloud-controller-0", "image_source": "24a33990-e65a-4235-9620-9243bcff67a2", "capabilities": "{\"boot_option\": \"local\"}", "memory_mb": "4096", "vcpus": "1", "local_gb": "557", "configdrive": "******", "swap_mb": "0", "nova_host_id": "host01.lab.local" }, "Name": "host3" } ]
openstack baremetal node vif list baremetal-0 +--------------------------------------+ | ID | +--------------------------------------+ | 4475bc5a-6f6e-466d-bcb6-6c2dce0fba16 | +--------------------------------------+
openstack port show 4475bc5a-6f6e-466d-bcb6-6c2dce0fba16 -c mac_address -c fixed_ips +-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | fixed_ips | ip_address='192.168.24.9', subnet_id='1d11c677-5946-4733-87c3-23a9e06077aa' | | mac_address | 00:2d:28:2f:8d:95 | +-------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
openstack port create --network baremetal --fixed-ip ip-address=192.168.24.24 baremetal-0-extra
openstack server remove port overcloud-baremetal-0 4475bc5a-6f6e-466d-bcb6-6c2dce0fba16
openstack server list
openstack baremetal node vif list baremetal-0 openstack port list
openstack server add port overcloud-baremetal-0 baremetal-0-extra
openstack server list +--------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------+------------------------+------------------------------+---------+ | ID | Name | Status | Networks | Image | Flavor | +--------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------+------------------------+------------------------------+---------+ | 53095a64-1646-4dd1-bbf3-b51cbcc38789 | overcloud-controller-2 | ACTIVE | ctlplane=192.168.24.7 | overcloud-hardened-uefi-full | control | | 3a1bc89c-5d0d-44c7-a569-f2a3b4c73d65 | overcloud-controller-0 | ACTIVE | ctlplane=192.168.24.8 | overcloud-hardened-uefi-full | control | | 6b01531a-f55d-40e9-b3a2-6d02be0b915b | overcloud-controller-1 | ACTIVE | ctlplane=192.168.24.16 | overcloud-hardened-uefi-full | control | | c61cc52b-cc48-4903-a971-073c60f53091 | overcloud-novacompute-0overcloud-baremetal-0 | ACTIVE | ctlplane=192.168.24.24 | overcloud-hardened-uefi-full | compute | +--------------------------------------+-------------------------+--------+------------------------+------------------------------+---------+
openstack baremetal node vif list baremetal-0 +--------------------------------------+ | ID | +--------------------------------------+ | 6181c089-7e33-4f1c-b8fe-2523ff431ffc | +--------------------------------------+
openstack port show 6181c089-7e33-4f1c-b8fe-2523ff431ffc -c mac_address -c fixed_ips +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Field | Value | +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | fixed_ips | ip_address='192.168.24.24', subnet_id='1d11c677-5946-4733-87c3-23a9e06077aa' | | mac_address | 00:2d:28:2f:8d:95 | +-------------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
openstack server reboot overcloud-baremetal-0
ironic::conductor::power_failure_recovery_interval
source ~/overcloudrc
openstack baremetal introspection start [--wait] <NODENAME>
openstack baremetal introspection status <NODENAME>
openstack baremetal introspection data save <NODE-UUID>