Testing Ironic IPMI serial-over-LAN

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Setup

• Make sure ipmitool and shellinabox are installed. That seems obvious, but I forgot to install ipmitool on the Ironic server I used for testing and it took me a bit to figure out.
• After applying https://review.openstack.org/#/c/64100/ you'll need to restart ironic-api and ironic-conductor. I didn't see them as system services, so I just kill'ed the process and restarted it each time.
• Register a node with ironic node-create as usual, but specifying these additional parameters
• ipmi_terminal_port
• ipmi_username
• ipmi_address
• ipmi_password
• Do all the other normal setup
• Check that ironic node-validate $NODE includes console: True

Setup

• Deploy as normal
• Start the console like so:

curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept: application/json' \
  -H "X-Auth-Token: $TOKEN" -d '{"enabled": "true"}' \
  http://127.0.0.1:6385/v1/nodes/$NODE/states/console

You can get $TOKEN by running something like ironic node-list --debug and copying the enormous token. (Aside: isn't this basically a replay attack? Or do we not try to protect against that?)

Then, you should be able to access http://$ironic_host:4200/ and view a console session.