The magellan CLI tool is a Redfish-based, board management controller (BMC) discovery tool designed to scan networks and is written in Go. The tool collects information from BMC nodes using the provided Redfish RESTful API with gofish and loads the queried data into an SMD instance. The tool strives to be more flexible by implementing multiple methods of discovery to work for a wider range of systems (WIP) and is capable of using independently of other tools or services.
Note: magellan v0.1.0 is incompatible with SMD v2.15.3 and earlier.
The magellan tool comes packed with a handleful of features for doing discovery, such as:
- Simple network scanning
- Redfish-based inventory collection
- Redfish-based firmware updating
- Integration with OpenCHAMI SMD
- Write inventory data to JSON
See the TODO section for a list of soon-ish goals planned.
Build and run on bare metal or run and test with Docker using the latest prebuilt image. For quick testing, the repository integrates a Redfish emulator that can be ran by executing the emulator/setup.sh script or running make emulator.
The magellan tool can be built to run on bare metal. Install the required Go tools, clone the repo, and then build the binary in the root directory with the following:
git clone https://github.com/davidallendj/magellan
cd magellan
go mod tidy && go buildAnd that's it. The last line should find and download all of the required dependencies to build the project. Although other versions of Go may work, the project has been tested to work with versions v1.20 and later on MacOS and Linux.
Getting the magellan tool to work with Go 1.21 on Debian 12 may require installing the golang-1.21 meta-package from bookworm-backports through apt along with GCC for comping the go-sqlite3 driver.
apt install gcc golang-1.21/bookworm-backportThe binary executable for the golang-1.21 executable can then be found using dpkg.
dpkg -L golang-1.21-goUsing the correct binary, set the CGO_ENABLED environment variable and build the executable with cgo enabled:
export GOBIN=/usr/bin/golang-1.21/bin/go
go env -w CGO_ENABLED=1
go mod tidy && go buildThis might take some time to complete initially because of the go-sqlite3 driver, but should be much faster for subsequent builds.
The tool can also run using Docker. To build the Docker container, run docker build -t magellan:testing . in the project's directory. This is useful if you to run magellan on a different system through Docker desktop without having to install and build with Go (or if you can't do so for some reason). Prebuilt images are available as well on ghcr. Images can be pulled directly from the repository:
docker pull ghcr.io/davidallendj/magellan:latestSee the "Running with Docker" section below about running with the Docker container.
The sections below assume that the BMC nodes have an IP address available to query Redfish. Currently, magellan does not support discovery with MAC addresses although that may change in the future.
Before using the tool, confirm that the identified node has Redfish with curl. Assuming the IP address for the BMC node is 172.16.0.10, we can send a request to see if it we get a response. You might need to pass the -k flag if the node uses TLS or point to the appropriate certificate.
curl -k https://172.16.0.10/redfish/v1 --cacert cacert.pem | jqThis should return a JSON response with general information. The output below has been truncated:
{
"@odata.context": "/redfish/v1/$metadata#ServiceRoot.ServiceRoot",
"@odata.etag": "W/\"1715279084\"",
"@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/",
"@odata.type": "#ServiceRoot.v1_5_2.ServiceRoot",
"AccountService": {
"@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/AccountService"
},
"CertificateService": {
"@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/CertificateService"
},
"Chassis": {
"@odata.id": "/redfish/v1/Chassis"
},
...
}There are three main commands to use with the tool: scan, list, and collect. To see all of the available commands, run magellan with the help subcommand which will print this output:
Redfish-based BMC discovery tool
Usage:
magellan [flags]
magellan [command]
Available Commands:
collect Collect system information by interrogating BMC node
completion Generate the autocompletion script for the specified shell
crawl Crawl a single BMC for inventory information
help Help about any command
list List information stored in cache from a scan
login Log in with identity provider for access token
scan Scan to discover BMC nodes on a network
update Update BMC node firmware
version Print version info and exit
Flags:
--access-token string Set the access token
--cache string Set the scanning result cache path (default "/tmp/allend/magellan/assets.db")
--concurrency int Set the number of concurrent processes (default -1)
-c, --config string Set the config file path
-d, --debug Set to enable/disable debug messages
-h, --help help for magellan
--timeout int Set the timeout for requests (default 5)
-v, --verbose Set to enable/disable verbose output
Use "magellan [command] --help" for more information about a command.To start a network scan for BMC nodes, use the scan command. If the port is not specified, magellan will probe the common Redfish port 443 by default:
./magellan scan \
--subnet 172.16.0.0 \
--subnet-mask 255.255.255.0 \
--format json \
--cache data/assets.db \This will scan the 172.16.0.0 subnet returning the host and port that return a response and store the results in a local cache with at the data/assets.db path. Additional flags can be set such as --host to add more hosts to scan that are not included on the subnet, --timeout to set how long to wait for a response from the BMC node, or --concurrency to set the number of requests to make concurrently with goroutines. Try using ./magellan help scan for a complete set of options this subcommand. Alternatively, the same scan can be started using CIDR notation and with additional hosts:
./magellan scan https://10.0.0.100:5000 --subnet 172.16.0.0/24Once the scan is complete, inspect the cache to see a list of found hosts with the list command. Make sure to point to the same database used before if you set the --cache flag.
./magellan list --cache data/assets.dbThis will print a list of host information needed for the collect step. Set the ACCESS_TOKEN if necessary and invoke magellan again with the collect subcommand to query the node BMCs stored in cache. If the --host flag is set, then an additional request will be made to send the output to the specified URL. The --userame and --password flags must be set if the BMC requires basic authentication.
./magellan collect \
--cache data/assets.db \
--timeout 5 \
--username $USERNAME \
--password $PASSWORD \
--host https://example.openchami.cluster:8443 \
--output logs/
--cacert cacert.pemThis will initiate a crawler that will find as much inventory data as possible. The data can be viewed from standard output by setting the --verbose flag. This output can also be saved by using the --output flag and providing a path argument.
Note: If the cache flag is not set, magellan will use /tmp/$USER/magellan.db by default.
The magellan tool is capable of updating firmware with using the update subcommand via the Redfish API. This may sometimes necessary if some of the collect output is missing or is not including what is expected. The subcommand expects there to be a running HTTP/HTTPS server running that has an accessible URL path to the firmware download. Specify the URL with the --firmware-path flag and the firmware type with the --component flag with all the other usual arguments like in the example below:
./magellan update 172.16.0.108:443 \
--username $USERNAME \
--password $PASSWORD \
--firmware-path http://172.16.0.255:8005/firmware/bios/image.RBU \
--component BIOSThen, the update status can be viewed by including the --status flag along with the other usual arguments or with the watch command:
./magellan update 172.16.0.110 --status --username $USERNAME --pass $PASSWORD | jq '.'
# ...or...
watch -n 1 "./magellan update 172.16.0.110 --status --username $USERNAME --password $PASSWORD | jq '.'"The magellan tool has a login subcommand that works with the opaal service to obtain a token needed to access the SMD service. If the SMD instance requires authentication, set the ACCESS_TOKEN environment variable to have magellan include it in the header for HTTP requests to SMD.
# must have a running OPAAL instance
./magellan login --url https://opaal:4444/login
# ...complete login flow to get token
export ACCESS_TOKEN=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIs...Alternatively, if you are running the OpenCHAMI quickstart in the deployment recipes, you can run the provided script to generate a token and set the environment variable that way.
quickstart_dir=path/to/deployment/recipes/quickstart
source $quickstart_dir/bash_functions.sh
export ACCESS_TOKEN=$(gen_access_token)The magellan tool can be ran in a Docker container after pulling the latest image:
docker pull ghcr.io/davidallendj/magellan:latestThen, run either with the helper script found in bin/magellan.sh or the binary in the container:
docker run ghcr.io/openchami/magellan:latest /magellan.sh --scan "--subnet 172.16.0.0 --port 443 --timeout 3" --collect "--user admin --pass password --host http://vm01 --port 27779"
# ... or ..
docker ghcr.io/openhami/magellan:latest /magellan scan --subnet 172.16.0.0 --subnet-mask 255.255.255.0At its core, magellan is designed to do three basic things:
- Scan for BMC nodes in cluster available on a network
- Query information about each BMC node through Redfish API
- Store queried information into a system management database
First, the tool performs a scan to find running services on a network. This is done by sending a raw TCP packet to all specified hosts (either IP or host name) and taking note which services respond. At this point, magellan has no way of knowing whether this is a Redfish service or not, so another HTTP request is made to verify. Once the BMC responds with an OK status code, magellan will store the necessary information in a local cache database to allow collecting more information about the node later. This allows for users to only have to scan their cluster once to find systems that are currently available and scannable.
Next, the tool queries information about the BMC node using gofish API functions, but requires access to BMC node found in the scanning step mentioned above to work. If the node requires basic authentication, a user name and password is required to be supplied as well. Once the BMC information is retrieved from each node, the info is aggregated and a HTTP request is made to a SMD instance to be stored. Optionally, the information can be written to disk for inspection and debugging purposes.
In summary, magellan needs at minimum the following configured to work on each node:
- Available Redfish service with its known host and port
- A running instance of SMD service with its known host and port
- Docker to pull and run containers or Go to build binaries
See the issue list for plans for magellan. Here is a list of other features left to add, fix, or do (and some ideas!):
- Confirm loading different components into SMD
- Add ability to set subnet mask for scanning
- Add ability to scan with other protocols like LLDP and SSDP
- Add more debugging messages with the
-v/--verboseflag - Separate
collectsubcommand with making request to endpoint - Support logging in with
opaalto get access token - Support using CA certificates with HTTP requests to SMD
- Add tests for the regressions and compatibility
- Clean up, remove unused, and tidy code (first round)
Copyright
© 2023 Triad National Security, LLC. All rights reserved. This program was produced under U.S. Government contract 89233218CNA000001 for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), which is operated by Triad National Security, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. All rights in the program are reserved by Triad National Security, LLC, and the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The Government is granted for itself and others acting on its behalf a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable worldwide license in this material to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, perform publicly and display publicly, and to permit others to do so.