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authorNisha Agarwal <nisha.agarwal@hpe.com>2020-08-16 18:59:31 +0000
committerNisha Agarwal <agarwalnisha1980@gmail.com>2020-09-07 07:44:11 +0000
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Adds few of the security dashboard parameters to capabilities
This patch adds few of the security dashboard parameters to iLO capabilities. It adds : - overall_security_status - last_firmware_scan_result - security_override_switch Story: 2008024 Task: 40678 Change-Id: I7ef2ce1a20fbc1b258fce0f8ebd53661b24e66ff
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@@ -923,6 +923,27 @@ Inspection can also discover the following extra capabilities for iLO driver:
of the raid levels among 0, 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 50 and 60 are configured on
the system.
+* ``overall_security_status``: ``Ok`` or ``Risk`` or ``Ignored`` as returned by iLO
+ security dashboard. iLO computes the overall security status by evaluating
+ the security status for each of the security parameters. Admin needs to fix
+ the actual parameters and then re-inspect so that iLO can recompute the
+ overall security status. If the all security params, whose ``security_status`` is
+ ``Risk``, have the ``Ignore`` field set to ``True``, then iLO sets
+ the overall security status value as ``Ignored``. All the security params must have
+ the ``security_status`` as ``Ok`` for the ``overall_security_status``
+ to have the value as ``Ok``.
+
+* ``last_firmware_scan_status``: ``Ok`` or ``Risk`` as returned by iLO security dashboard.
+ This denotes security status of the last firmware scan done on the system. If it is
+ ``Risk``, the recommendation is to run clean_step ``update_firmware_sum`` without any
+ specific firmware components so that firmware is updated for all the components using
+ latest SPP (Service Provider Pack) ISO and then re-inspect to get the security status
+ again.
+
+* ``security_override_switch``: ``Ok`` or ``Risk`` as returned by iLO security dashboard.
+ This is disable/enable login to the iLO using credentials. This can be toggled only
+ by physical visit to the bare metal.
+
.. note::
* The capability ``nic_capacity`` can only be discovered if ipmitool
@@ -941,6 +962,10 @@ Inspection can also discover the following extra capabilities for iLO driver:
(active and otherwise) NICs for Gen8 and Gen9 servers and ironic ports
are created for all of them. Inspection logs a warning if the node under
inspection is Gen8 or Gen9.
+ * The security dashboard capabilities are applicable only for Gen10 ProLiant HPE
+ servers and above. To fix the security dashboard parameters value from
+ ``Risk`` to ``Ok``, user need to fix the parameters separately and re-inspect
+ to see the security status of the parameters.
The operator can specify these capabilities in nova flavor for node to be selected
for scheduling::