Walkthrough sources

The BMC-to-ready walkthrough uses only public RackN documentation, read on October 13, 2026. Each step in the walkthrough links to the page it draws from.

Topic	Page
Endpoint services and default ports	Endpoint Architecture
Sledgehammer boot stages, image sizes, whoami scoring	Sledgehammer Architecture
Runner, task list, stage and bootenv tasks, Context	Runner State and Reboots
Universal pipeline phases, default pipeline, blueprints, callbacks	Universal Workflow Architecture
Inventory for IPMI, BIOS, flash, and RAID	Universal Hardware Architecture
BMC discovery, credentials, range scan, service user	IPMI Plugin Usage
Machine actions, ipmi-configure user and network settings	Multi-API OOB/BMC Control (dev branch docs)
Toolsets for actions	ipmi/mode
Lease-triggered discovery	ipmi/discover/from-lease
Discovery methods overview	IPMI Scanning

Marked as unverified

• Power-on after BMC discovery. The pages above do not say whether lease autodiscovery powers a server on by itself. The walkthrough shows nextbootpxe and powercycle as operator or workflow actions.
• Matching a booting host to a BMC-created machine. The pages do not describe how DRP links the two records. The whoami fingerprint, which includes NIC MACs, is the likely path.
• Machine actions page. The actions list comes from the dev branch of the docs. The stable IPMI Plugin Usage page covers discovery and the service user but not the action list.

Not covered by the walkthrough

High availability with RAFT on port 8093, multi-site management, contexts that run tasks in containers, and image-based deploys. Each is a candidate for a later walkthrough.