Introduction
Profiles
There are two important categories of profiles that the user should create to match their environment:
- Hardware
- Host
Hardware
Under the hardware profile, user can provide details about the server, and few device (n/w and disk) aliases. User can contact the administrator to obtain this information - else, one has to obtain this information from the 'lshw' command. For example: sudo lshw -c network -businfo - to know the NIC names and PCI Ids. Once the user has the hardware information, it can be configure following parameters:
Server:
| Parameter | Description | Example-Value |
|---|---|---|
| vendor | Vendor of the server chassis | Intel |
| generation | Generation of the chassis model | '4' |
| hw_version | Version of the chassis model within its generation | '3' |
| bios_version | The certified version of the chassis BIOS | 'SE5C .... |
| boot_mode | Mode of the default boot of hardware - bios, uefi | bios |
| bootstrap_protocol | Protocol of boot of the hardware - pxe, usb, hdd | 'pxe |
| pxe_interface | Which interface to use for network booting within the OOB manager, not OS device | 0 |
Device-Aliaces: NICs:
User can categorize the NICs in the hardware as control-plane nics or dataplane nics. In each category he can have one or more NICs. For example, he can define ctrl_nic1, ctrl_nic2, ctrl_nic3, and data_nic1, data_nic2, data_nic3, etc. However, for every NIC the below information can be configured.
This categorization will be referred in the host-profiles.
| Parameter | Description | Example Value |
|---|---|---|
| address | The PCI address of the NIC | 0000:04:00.0 |
| dev_type | Description of the NIC | 'I350 Gigabit Network Connection' |
| bus_type | The bus supported | 'pci' |