This is an auxiliary service for discovering hardware properties for a node managed by Ironic. Hardware introspection or hardware properties discovery is a process of getting hardware parameters required for scheduling from a bare metal node, given it’s power management credentials (e.g. IPMI address, user name and password).
Note
ironic-inspector was called ironic-discoverd before version 2.0.0.
For information on any current or prior version, see the release notes.