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Post by jyundt on Dec 14, 2021 16:11:07 GMT
Should the LocationIndicatorActive property (or the deprecated IndicatorLED property) be PATCH-able or PUT-able for Drive objects to enable drive LED blinking? I see that the spec lists these as "read-write" but in practice do any BMC implementations support this?
I ask because we currently have several different BMCs from different vendors and there doesn't seem to be any consistency regarding "drive LED blinking". I'm happy to push our vendors to support this but I'm not sure what is expected/standard in this situation.
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Post by mraineri on Dec 14, 2021 20:53:19 GMT
One thing to note is that the semantics of the "LocationIndicatorActive" property is setting it to "true" doesn't necessarily mean it will blink; it will put the LED in whatever mode it needs to for the "identify function". This is the reason why we had to deprecate IndicatorLED from the model since some products equate "On" to indicate "identify" while others use "Blinking" for the same purpose; unfortunately we can't dictate those sorts of product behaviors in Redfish. At the end of the day, the client just wants to enable the identify function on the device.
However, with that being said, the newer property was added in September of 2020, so I would expect support for the property to have been emerging over the last year. It's probably worth asking your vendors, but I would hope this sort of addition is trivial to support.
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