From 4af689e0c028898ccc27db40768e5e6c71746803 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Tantsur Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 12:23:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Document ports creating configuration for in-band inspection Change-Id: Ia885b4cf81fc8fb6e25f5a34e15247e77dc963db --- doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst b/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst index f8cb1cdb97..b044bd0f0a 100644 --- a/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst +++ b/doc/source/deploy/install-guide.rst @@ -1098,6 +1098,19 @@ by an operator. There are two kinds of inspection supported by Ironic: being run on a separate host from the ironic-conductor service, or is using non-standard port. + In order to ensure that ports in Ironic are synchronized with NIC ports on + the node, the following settings in the ironic-discoverd configuration file + must be set:: + + [discoverd] + add_ports = all + keep_ports = present + + (requires ironic-discoverd of version 1.1.0 or higher). Note that in this + case an operator is responsible for deleting ports that can't be actually + used by Ironic, see `bug 1405131 + `_ for explanation. + .. _ironic-discoverd: https://github.com/stackforge/ironic-discoverd