[racktables-users] Re: Locate LED
- From: Simon Kainz <simon.kainz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:32:27 +0200
Simon Kainz wrote:
> Denis Ovsienko wrote:
>>> Yes, I use the ipmitool tool :-) to set led stati. My question was
>>> rather as how/where to include this in RT? I mean to get a
>>> button/checkbox/whaterver on the properties panel of my Server object.
>> The simplest way is to add a dedicated IPMI tab for that, for that you'd
>> need to look into navigation.php and add a couple of functions there: one
>> (look for samples in interface.php) to render a panel with a "fire" button
>> (and with some radios or whatever is needed), and another (samples in
>> ophandler.php) to handle the pressing of that button. The latter function
>> would actually call the ipmitool to do something.
>>
>> And, if you'd want it to look more consistently, you'd need to register a
>> third function (trigger), which would tell, if your IPMI panel works with a
>> particular object or not. Then the tab would be only displayed where it
>> makes use (and not on every switch, patch panel and so).
>>
>> Once you finish that, you can put all that into local.php and your addon
>> will likely survive RackTables upgrades (and you can put it into contribs
>> directory of RackTables, if you want).
>>
>> --
>> Denis Ovsienko
>>
> Hi!
>
> I digged through the code and following the already existing schema, i
> added an IPMI panel which is only displayed after ipv4 address
> allocation for a specific object. Now I have some questins:
>
> I usually have hosts with several interfaces, strictly separating
> between ipmi and non-ipmi networks for security reasons. Now I would
> like to have either a select component or several option buttons,
> displaying all assigned network interfaces for my current object. I am
> able to list all assigned interfaces, but where/how do I persist an IPMI
> interface selection? Should a add a new attribute holding the interface
> id? Is this "nice & clean"? Is there something similar alread in RT
> where i take a glimpse at?
>
Maybe i was a bit inaccurate on this. I know I don't need this info
persisted for only setting led stati, but I also want to see the current
state somewhere. So I have to store it somewhere. Hmm..
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
--
DI Simon Kainz
Graz, University of Technology
Department Computing
Phone: ++43 (0) 316 / 873 6885
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