MaaS not detecting IPMI. Sometimes

Question

trusty LTS, MaaS 1.7.3+bzr3363, Dell c6105s. I boot new nodes, they are found, but no IPMI is detected. Nodes fail in commissioning, even if set to WOL and powered up by hand. I delete an old node from from MaaS, rebooted it, and IPMI info is found. I grepped maas.log for IPMI and found no entries in the last 10 days. I grepped pserv.log, and maas-django.log and found no instances of ipmi of IPMI.

How do I debug the ipmi enlistment process?

What logs could I review/include to help determine the cause?

Answer 1

The issue was that, as I was set up, my MaaS server did not have an APT cache. Because there was not a cache, it did not have the libraries needed to recognize IPMI. Once I connected the MaaS server to the net, it had access to the libs and worked correctly.

My next move is to create a apt cache on the server.