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[Freeipmi-devel] Ruby implementation?


From: Corey Osman
Subject: [Freeipmi-devel] Ruby implementation?
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:26:59 -0700

Hi,

I have an ipmi related project I need to get started and I thought I would ask the list before doing any work.  First I'll give you some background.

A project that I contribute to manages the entire lifecycle of datacenter infrastructure.  Which covers anything from server bare metal provisioning (via PXE) to automated configuration management (puppet).  The product is called theforeman (http://www.theforeman.org). 
Additionally, I built a mobile app to control  foreman which is called RemoteAdmin ( http://www.remoteadmin.co ).  Both of these projects are open source GPL.  The next step in both of these projects is to control power and boot order selection from the app.  So when a user selects an OS to install.  The server automatically gets power cycled and booted to the NIC via IPMI.  This is where freeIPMI comes in.  

The entire foreman project is a Ruby on Rails app.  So while a C implementation library of freeIPMI is awesome, its difficult to access via Ruby.  So I have come up with a few work arounds which are probably common given this situation.

1.  Use the freeipmi command line tools and write a ruby wrapper to call the cli commands using exec
2.  Use a tool called swig (http://www.swig.org/)  to generate a Ruby interface wrapper to the freeipmi project libraries

I have never used swig before but it looks very promising.  I wanted to ask what your thoughts are about implementing a ruby freeipmi library.  Any concerns, tricks, gotchas I need to look out for?  The ruby freeipmi library will be open source and available as a ruby gem when completed.   

How are you guys testing freeipmi with all the vendors' implementations?

I would also enjoy any code contributions.


The github project can be found here:  https://github.com/logicminds/ruby-freeipmi


Corey Osman

Green IT and Datacenter Automation Specialist





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