action #139271
Updated by okurz over 1 year ago
## Motivation In FC Basement we have currently unused PowerPC hardware that maybe can be put to good use, namely * mania https://racktables.nue.suse.com/index.php?page=object&tab=default&object_id=9588 ## Acceptance criteria * **AC1:** *DONE* mania is actively used * **AC2:** *DONE* production openQA OSD jobs are able to execute successfully on mania * **AC3:** *DONE* Our inventory management system is up-to-date regarding the use and configuration of mania * **AC4:** *DONE* Workerconf has the IPMI command to access the machine ## Suggestions * *DONE* Offer the machines to be investigated for use in coordination with hsehic, former coordinator for those machines * *DONE* Ensure the machine is used for something useful, e.g. openQA OSD worker * *DONE* Add machine to DHCP/DNS config in https://gitlab.suse.de/OPS-Service/salt/ * *DONE* Boot the machine either over network or local install medium * *DONE* Install openSUSE Leap 15.4 * *DONE* Deploy OSD openQA worker following somewhere from https://wiki.suse.net/index.php/OpenQA and https://gitlab.suse.de/openqa/salt-states-openqa * *DONE* Ensure there are no related alerts * *DONE* Optionally: Help with #136130 as mania could be the third machine to bisect where problems come from ## Out of scope ppc64le multi-machine jobs -> #136130 ## Further details Potentially interesting and related: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1041747, never fixed, workarounds mentioned like `QEMUCPUS=1; QEMUTHREADS=1` which likely should not be needed anymore on recent OS kernels.