Need a way to force use of IPMI vs. redfish

[RobertKrawitz]

The alias lab has a mix of IDRAC versions on the Dell servers; some support the Redfish protocol and some don't. Various attempts to heuristically determine which protocol aren't robust; there needs to be a variable to force use of IPMI.

I have a cluster that fails to come up normally, even with various firmware detection workarounds, but with this hack I got it to work:

diff --git a/ansible-ipi-install/roles/installer/templates/install-config.j2 b/ansible-ipi-install/roles/installer/templates/install-config.j2
index 4ffc9c2..43016a0 100644
--- a/ansible-ipi-install/roles/installer/templates/install-config.j2
+++ b/ansible-ipi-install/roles/installer/templates/install-config.j2
@@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ platform:
       - name: {{ hostvars[host]['inventory_hostname'] }}
         role: {{ hostvars[host]['role'] }}
         bmc:
-{% if groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] and ((release_version[0]|int > 4) or ((release_version[0]|int == 4) and (release_version[2]|int >= 5))) %}
+{% if false and groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] and ((release_version[0]|int > 4) or ((release_version[0]|int == 4) and (release_version[2]|int >= 5))) %}
           address: redfish://{{ hostvars[host]['ipmi_address']|ipwrap }}/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1
           disableCertificateVerification: {{ disable_bmc_certificate_verification }}
-{% elif groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] and ((release_version[0]|int > 4) or ((release_version[0]|int == 4) and (release_version[2]|int >= 5))) %}
+{% elif false and groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] and ((release_version[0]|int > 4) or ((release_version[0]|int == 4) and (release_version[2]|int >= 5))) %}
           address: redfish://{{ hostvars[host]['ipmi_address']|ipwrap }}/redfish/v1/Systems/1
           disableCertificateVerification: {{ disable_bmc_certificate_verification }}
 {% else %}
@@ -92,10 +92,10 @@ platform:
       - name: {{ hostvars[host]['inventory_hostname'] }}
         role: {{ hostvars[host]['role'] }}
         bmc:
-{% if groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] %}
+{% if false and groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['dell_hosts_redfish'] %}
           address: redfish://{{ hostvars[host]['ipmi_address']|ipwrap }}/redfish/v1/Systems/System.Embedded.1
           disableCertificateVerification: {{ disable_bmc_certificate_verification }}
-{% elif groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] %}
+{% elif false and  groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] is defined and host in groups['hp_hosts_redfish'] %}
           address: redfish://{{ hostvars[host]['ipmi_address']|ipwrap }}/redfish/v1/Systems/1
           disableCertificateVerification: {{ disable_bmc_certificate_verification }}
 {% else %}

[smalleni]

The latest rebase fixed this. So closing this issue.