Naved Ansari

Issue with pytest and it's plugins dependencies

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We are using pytest version < 3.6 because of an issue described here https://github.com/CCI-MOC/hil/commit/fd68983cad3e5b6adedeba1ef3c531890f140313 The latest version of two pytest plugins (pytest-cov and pytest-xdist) require a more recent version of...

Make our error types more clear and useful

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This stems from the discussion [here](https://github.com/CCI-MOC/hil/pull/920#issuecomment-352084439) Errors we raise in our APIs should be distinct and clear enough so that we know how to process those errors just by looking...

Remove the API call for returning active extensions

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See the [discussion](https://github.com/CCI-MOC/hil/pull/939#issuecomment-360872554) on #939 The consensus is that we don't really need that API. @SahilTikale I am tagging you again, please let us know if you think there's a...

Automate HIL deployment

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One of the project for cloud computing class is Automated Secure Cloud Deployment. For that, all the components of secure cloud need to be deployed automatically. For BMI, there's already...

Use Ansible networking

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This was discussed during the RedHat roundtable meeting. This seems like a good idea as this will allow us to support more switches quickly. Though, we should investigate this in...

need a way to ensure that nodes are powered off and ports shut off when a node is released back into the free pool

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We don't want people to run malicious stuff and then release their nodes into the free pool. * if we turn off the switch port like we discussed in #847...

In some of the switches, (the s3048 and brocade). The switchport is needed to be turned on before performing other switch operations (like setting the native vlan). If there's a...

See discussion here https://github.com/CCI-MOC/hil/pull/964#issuecomment-371244248 Our plan is to: * Require that the startup config has no networks on HIL controlled switchports. * Provide an API to deploy an entire switch's...

Allow changing native network without removing old native first

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https://github.com/CCI-MOC/hil/blob/0d7d2e376a4640366f699282859678454f5b1f8c/hil/api.py#L415 now that we are, in some switches, restricting users to attach a native network first we should allow changing the native network directly to a new one without having...

Brocade Switch: Enable jumbo frames for ports

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This was suggested by @radonm For the other 2 switches we support, we only need to enable jumbo frames for the whole switch, which is a one time thing. But...