OpenShift Container Platform

Adding IBM Power agents to the InfraEnv resource

You can add agents by manually configuring the machine to start with the live ISO.

Procedure

Download the live ISO and use it to start a bare metal or a virtual machine (VM) host. You can find the URL for the live ISO in the status.isoDownloadURL field in the InfraEnv resource. At startup, the host communicates with the Assisted Service and registers as an agent in the same namespace as the InfraEnv resource.

To list the agents and some of their properties, enter the following command:

$ oc -n <hosted_control_plane_namespace> get agents

Example output

NAME                                   CLUSTER   APPROVED   ROLE          STAGE
86f7ac75-4fc4-4b36-8130-40fa12602218                        auto-assign
e57a637f-745b-496e-971d-1abbf03341ba                        auto-assign

After each agent is created, you can optionally set the installation_disk_id and hostname for an agent:

To set the installation_disk_id field for an agent, enter the following command:

$ oc -n <hosted_control_plane_namespace> patch agent <agent_name> -p '{"spec":{"installation_disk_id":"<installation_disk_id>","approved":true}}' --type merge

To set the hostname field for an agent, enter the following command:

$ oc -n <hosted_control_plane_namespace> patch agent <agent_name> -p '{"spec":{"hostname":"<hostname>","approved":true}}' --type merge

Verification

To verify that the agents are approved for use, enter the following command:

$ oc -n <hosted_control_plane_namespace> get agents

Example output

NAME                                   CLUSTER   APPROVED   ROLE          STAGE
86f7ac75-4fc4-4b36-8130-40fa12602218             true       auto-assign
e57a637f-745b-496e-971d-1abbf03341ba             true       auto-assign