[chef] Re: IPMI / Ohai

[Brad Knowles < >]

On Sep 23, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Graham Christensen 
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> Unfortunately it takes too long to run on a regular basis. (If anyone has 
> sage wisdom on detecting IPMI in a quicker fashion, it would be 
> appreciated.) Would it be a faux pas to touch a hint file after the first 
> run which indicates it is present?

Normally, I would recommend storing this information in a node attribute that 
gets saved back to the server, but I don't think any of those attributes 
would be available to you during the earliest part of the Chef run -- like 
when Ohai is trying to discover what's on the machine.

So, failing the node attribute solution, I don't see a better alternative 
than caching this information in a local hint file on the node.

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Brad Knowles 
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