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Christian Manivong 6c60f7ac60 feat: switch the server's power over IPMI (0.3.0)
IpmiDriver.set_power_state sends an IPMI chassis control: On, GracefulShutdown,
ForceOff and ForceRestart. get_power_state now offers what fits the server's
state: On when it is off, the other three when it is on. IPMI has no graceful
restart and pyghmi offers no power cycle, so neither is offered. The driver
still does not reset the BMC.

For boards that offer nothing but IPMI, such as a Supermicro X10 without a
Redfish license.
2026-10-17 01:04:43 +02:00
christianmanivong 332e6090a7 feat: read-only IPMI driver; report a missing Redfish license (0.2.0)
A Supermicro X10DRL-i refuses Redfish without a license (SUM, DCMS or
OOB), even the service root. IPMI answers without one.

- New entry point `ipmi` (napalm_redfish.ipmi.IpmiDriver) on
  ManagementControllerDriver, over pyghmi: facts and inventory from the
  FRU (serial number, system UUID), the BMC's LAN interface, sensors
  (temperatures, fans, power supplies), the power state, the event log
  and the BMC firmware. Read-only: no power control, no BMC reset.
  Tested against recordings of the X10 with serials, the UUID, MACs and
  IPs replaced.
- RedfishDriver.open() no longer fails on a license refusal: get_facts
  returns what is known without Redfish, get_device_warnings reports
  bmc_license_required with the licenses the BMC names, every other
  getter raises. netOrk then shows the reason instead of an offline BMC.
- IpmiDriver is not exported from the package: NAPALM's own
  get_network_driver("redfish") takes the first driver class of
  napalm_redfish.
2026-10-13 10:53:51 +02:00
Christian Manivong 42940d7e90 Add RedfishDriver on ManagementControllerDriver
The redfish driver implements get_facts, get_interfaces, get_interfaces_ip, get_environment, get_users, get_ntp_servers and get_snmp_information for the BMC, and the role methods get_power_state, set_power_state, get_hardware_inventory, get_event_log, get_firmware_inventory and get_management_protocols for the managed server. reboot_host resets the BMC through Manager.Reset, never the server.

Registered as the napalm.drivers entry point redfish; depends on napalm and napalm-device-types >= 4.6.
2026-10-13 05:02:58 +00:00
Christian Manivong 8b512b6e0d Update README and references for the transport and parsers 2026-10-12 23:42:14 +00:00
Christian Manivong 5f8a4ef975 docs: design notes for a Redfish/IPMI BMC driver
No code yet. The README explains why one Redfish driver with vendor quirk
modules beats a Supermicro-only IPMI driver, and keeps IPMI over LAN as a
read-only fallback. docs/ holds a draft for a new ManagementController
role base in napalm-device-types, the getter-to-resource map, the first
test device (Supermicro X10DRL-i, Redfish firmware 3.91), the security
points (IPMI RAKP hash disclosure, power control, credentials) and the
test plan with DMTF mockups and fixtures to record.
2026-10-13 01:15:57 +02:00