how do you commission a machine in MAAS from the CLI without running any hardware tests?
You can commission a machine in MAAS from the CLI with this command:
maas <profile> machine commission ${SYSTEM_ID}
how do you run this command but tell MAAS to not run any hardware tests (node-scripts) or to specify a custom set of tests?
1 Answer
If you want to commission a single existing machine without running any hardware tests, the CLI command is:
maas <profile> machine commission <system_id> testing_scripts=none
If you want to disable hardware tests from running when new machines are added to MAAS, you need to remove the "commissioning" tag from all node-scripts. By default only one script (smartctl-validate) is tagged to be run during commissioning. You can see all scripts, and their tags, using:
maas <profile> node-scripts read
Assuming typical installation where "smartctl-validate" has a script id = 1, and default tags of "storage,commissioning", you can remove commissioning using:
maas <profile> node-script update 1 tags=storage
That command will leave the "storage" tag, but remove the "commissioning" tag from the "smartctl-validate" script.
A word of caution: hardware tests can be helpful/useful. Disabling the tests might not be a good idea. We disable them because false-positive results (we think due to S.M.A.R.T. drive monitoring) cause our commissionings to hang and fail.
