OpenCHAMI Weekly Digest

A productive week with fru-tracker reaching v0.2.4, coresmd v0.6.2 landing multi-subnet DHCP, and a new HPC-VM RFD opening up. Also some real SMD bugs surface around RedfishEndpoint parsing.

Highlights#

• fru-tracker v0.2.4 + reconciliation enhancements: fru-tracker v0.2.4 and v0.2.3 ship. Highlights: PR #19 (reconciliation logic for devices without serial numbers, from bmcdonald3) and PR #20 (Docker runtime + SQLite pathing fixes). Plus PR #21 updating build automation.
• coresmd v0.6.2 with multi-subnet DHCP: coresmd v0.6.2 ships PR #61 from new contributor sujit-jadhav — multi-subnet DHCP support for multi-RAC deployments.
• HPC-VM RFD opened: roadmap #127 from alexlovelltroy — OpenCHAMI-managed templated HPC virtual machines. Connects to the Single System Image RFD from last week.
• OpenHPC PR integration report: release #54 from adrianreber documents running OpenCHAMI in OpenHPC pull requests. Cross-community signal worth noting.
• SMD V2 RedfishEndpoint parsing bug surfaced: smd #91 from alexlovelltroy — V2 parser inserts NodeBMC Components but never creates the matching ComponentEndpointManager records. davidallendj’s PR #92 addresses it by adding BMC Manager ComponentEndpoints and ManagerInfo to parseRedfishEndpointDataV2.
• power-control bugs and ARM disable: power-control #66 — updateComponentMap never refreshing existing hwStateMap entries — closed. cjh1 lands PR #67 (allow SMD metadata updates), and rainest opens PR #68 to temporarily disable ARM builds pending a fix.
• inventory-service ARM + schema validation: shunr-hpe lands PR #24 (ARM in goreleaser build) and opens PR #23 for JSON-schema-based validation.
• metadata-service SMD integration with dynamic tokens: metadata-service PR #14 from alexlovelltroy adds an SMD integration service with caching and dynamic token support — implementing the TokenSmith-dynamic-auth feature opened last week.
• ochami CI improvements: synackd lands PR #85 (auto-generated PR build containers) and PR #87 (cleanup.yaml logic hotfix).
• Long-standing custom-fields question closed: smd #84 from Katakam-Rakesh — extra_config nodes.yaml storage + cloud-init exposure — closed.

New & Notable PRs#

• Multi-subnet DHCP for multi-RAC (coresmd #61) by sujit-jadhav
• BMC Manager ComponentEndpoints in V2 parser (smd #92) by davidallendj
• SMD integration with caching + dynamic tokens (metadata-service #14) by alexlovelltroy
• Allow SMD metadata updates (power-control #67) by cjh1
• Device reconciliation without serial numbers (fru-tracker #19) by bmcdonald3
• ARM in goreleaser (inventory-service #24) by shunr-hpe
• Auto PR build containers (ochami #85) by synackd
• install-openchami in openchami-release (release #52) by erl-hpe

Issues to Watch#

• Templated HPC VMs (roadmap #127) — new RFD; strategic.
• V2 RedfishEndpoint parser missing CompendpointManager records (smd #91) — real bug affecting BMC management.
• OpenCHAMI in OpenHPC PR integration (release #54) — cross-community signal.
• Add metadata-service commands to ochami (ochami #81) — CLI side of metadata-service v0.1.0.
• JWT support in boot-service client (boot-service #4) — sibling of the SMD TokenSmith integration.
• Post-image-CD cleanup (power-control #58) — long-running.

Releases#

• coresmd v0.6.2 — multi-subnet DHCP
• fru-tracker v0.2.4
• fru-tracker v0.2.3
• fru-tracker pr-21
• fru-tracker pr-20
• fru-tracker pr-19

Contributor Thanks#

• alexlovelltroy — metadata-service SMD integration, build-automation polish across multiple repos, RFD work.
• bmcdonald3 — fru-tracker reconciliation logic + Docker fixes.
• shunr-hpe — inventory-service ARM + JSON schema validation.
• davidallendj — smd RedfishEndpoint parser fix.
• cjh1 — power-control SMD metadata updates.
• synackd — ochami CI improvements.
• sujit-jadhav — new contributor with multi-subnet DHCP support in coresmd.
• adrianreber — OpenHPC PR integration report.
• erl-hpe — install-openchami direction.

What’s next?#

• Triage and close smd #91 RedfishEndpoint parsing bug — davidallendj’s PR is the candidate fix.
• Pick up ochami #81 metadata-service commands — closes the CLI surface gap.
• Open RFD discussion on templated HPC VMs (roadmap #127).
• Land metadata-service SMD integration (#14) and validate against the smd v2.20 TokenSmith path.

Proposed Blog Titles#

1. “Multi-Subnet DHCP in coresmd: A Multi-RAC Story”
2. “Templated HPC VMs in OpenCHAMI: An Early Look at the RFD”
3. “BMC ComponentEndpoints: Closing the SMD V2 Parser Gap”
4. “Dynamic Tokens at Runtime: How metadata-service Talks to SMD”
5. “Running OpenCHAMI in OpenHPC PRs: A Cross-Project Integration”