GroundZero 0.10.0

BIOS profiles: capture, edit or import saved BIOS settings, and apply them with Configure BIOS.

Added

• BIOS profiles: saved BIOS settings, checked against what the server's BIOS accepts. Configure BIOS
  applies them: only the settings that differ are written, with one reboot, and read back afterwards.
  • Three ways to make one:
    • Capture from a server's current settings. By default it keeps the choices (lists, numbers,
      on/off) and leaves out per-server text such as asset tags and iSCSI names.
    • Edit in GroundZero, from the BIOS's own attribute registry: each setting's name, allowed
      values, bounds and the menu it sits in.
    • Import a file: a plain {attribute: value} map, or a Dell Server Configuration Profile export.
  • The registry is read from the BMC once (read-only) and cached per model and BIOS version.
  • Values are checked before anything is saved. Read-only settings and BIOS passwords never go in a
    profile.
  • A profile's own value wins over the Holodeck basics (virtualization, IOMMU, UEFI) for any attribute
    both touch.
  • The Configure BIOS dialog shows what a profile would change before you confirm. Specs can pick a
    profile for their Configure BIOS step, which is "not needed" once the server matches it.
  • On the command line: groundzero bios-profile list|show|capture|import|delete.

Changed

• A task that judges itself from its inputs (Configure BIOS) goes back to ready when they move on, for
  example after a BIOS reset or a profile change, instead of staying done.

Fixed

• Recorded test fixtures no longer redact BIOS settings whose names sound sensitive (SerialComm,
  SubNumaCluster): values the BIOS registry lists as choices are kept.
• Job diagnostics now redact BIOS password attributes such as SetupPassword.
• A BMC that doesn't answer a direct request (for example reading its BIOS registry) is a 502 bmc_error
  naming what failed, not a bare 500.