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Partial configuration of Ironic is required before you can provision bare-metal nodes using the iDRAC driver. This configuration includes:
For detailed instructions, see Prerequisites in the OpenStack Ironic iDRAC driver documentation.
For detailed instructions, see Enabling in the OpenStack Ironic iDRAC driver documentation.
It should look like this example:
[agent]
post_deploy_get_power_state_retries = 18
It should look like this example:
[DEFAULT]
rpc_response_timeout = 600
It should look like this example:
[conductor]
sync_power_state_interval = 70
Note: Ensure that you stop the Ironic conductor service before editing the ironic.conf file. Restart the service after you have finished editing.