feat: Enable NTP on iDRAC, and stop using Ironic's verify_bmc_clock - #2316
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We need proper time syncronisation on the iDRAC for: (1) SSL connections made by the iDRAC to download firmware updates (2) When using SSO/DEX authentication Here we choose NTP as the way to sync the time. The IPA image has a clock-step functionality but it does not always work, and when it fails it causes IPA to fail altogether. When NTP is enabled, the time-of-day redfish route becomes read-only and IPA will fail 100% of the time - these two methods are mutually exclusive, so we disable the IPA's clock-setting mechanism.
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We need proper time syncronisation on the iDRAC for:
(1) SSL connections made by the iDRAC to download firmware updates (2) When using SSO/DEX authentication
Here we choose NTP as the way to sync the time.
The IPA image has a clock-step functionality but it does not always work, and when it fails it causes IPA to fail altogether.
When NTP is enabled, the time-of-day redfish route becomes read-only and IPA will fail 100% of the time - these two methods are mutually exclusive, so we disable the IPA's clock-setting mechanism.
We might want to proactively update the drac configurations. This could be done quite cheaply with some kind of one-liner like: