Administrator's Guide
=====================

If you are a system administrator running Ironic, this section contains
information that may help you understand how to operate and upgrade
the services.

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  :maxdepth: 1

   Drivers, Hardware Types and Hardware Interfaces <drivers>
   Ironic Python Agent <drivers/ipa>
   Node Hardware Inspection <inspection>
   Node Deployment <node-deployment>
   Node Cleaning <cleaning>
   Node Adoption <adoption>
   RAID Configuration <raid>
   BIOS Settings <bios>
   Node Rescuing <rescue>
   Configuring to boot from volume <boot-from-volume>
   Multi-tenant Networking <multitenancy>
   Port Groups <portgroups>
   Configuring Web or Serial Console <console>
   Enabling Notifications <notifications>
   Ceph Object Gateway <radosgw>
   Emitting Software Metrics <metrics>
   Auditing API Traffic <api-audit-support>
   Service State Reporting <gmr>
   Conductor Groups <conductor-groups>
   Upgrade Guide <upgrade-guide>
   Security <security>
   Windows Images <building-windows-images>
   Troubleshooting FAQ <troubleshooting>
   Power Sync with the Compute Service <power-sync>

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  :hidden:

  deploy-steps

Dashboard Integration
---------------------

A plugin for the OpenStack Dashboard (horizon) service is under development.
Documentation for that can be found within the ironic-ui project.

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  :maxdepth: 1

  Dashboard (horizon) plugin <https://docs.openstack.org/ironic-ui/train>
