Test issue: ipmisim/pyghmi does not work with CentOS8 patched ipmitool

[yadvr]

During marvin testing it was found that the ipmitool on CentOS8 has patches that no longer works with ipmisim test utility. This does not mean that OOBM may not work with CentOS8 management servers, which may need further testing with an actual BMC. The ipmisim utility uses pyghmi from OpenStack and may need bugfixes/refactoring that is out of scope of CloudStack project.

The difference seems to be some patches on CentOS8 build, while the version on both CentOS8, CentOS7, Ubuntu 20.04 are ipmitool version 1.8.18, on CentOS7, Ubuntu 20.04 it works.

Until this is fixed oobm related simulator tests (using ipmisim) can be skipped in Marvin.

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

Testing/library

[yadvr]

Workaround - install the CentOS 8.1.1911 1.8.18-12 rpm: (the 1.8.18-14 rpm does not work with latest)
https://rpmfind.net/linux/centos/8.1.1911/AppStream/x86_64/os/Packages/ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm

[yadvr]

@shwstppr I think the best way would be to document this, send a doc PR and for Trillian just install the 1.8.18-12 rpm (instead of 1.8.18-14 rpm)

[yadvr]

With @shwstppr

[yadvr]

@shwstppr pl send a doc PR on this to cloudstack-documentation website

[yadvr]

Doc PR merged - apache/cloudstack-documentation#165

[DaanHoogland]

@rhtyd I saw a deployment failing based on this. I than tried 1.8.18-17 but this also failed. Next I removed all explicit setting of IPMiTools and it is running now, will update this comment with results.

[yadvr]

cc @shwstppr ^^

[DaanHoogland]

update: @Pearl1594 created an setup with ipmitool-1.8.18-12.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
and I tried with the explicit update of ipmitool removed. Both seem to start.