Bare Metal Infrastructure

Purpose

Automate bare metal server lifecycle from provisioning and configuration to monitoring and decommissioning, using PXE boot, IPMI/BMC, MAAS, and infrastructure-as-code approaches.

Agent Protocol

Trigger

Exact user phrases: "bare metal", "physical server", "PXE boot", "IPMI", "BMC", "iDRAC", "iLO", "server provisioning", "burn-in testing", "firmware update", "RAID", "MAAS".

Input Context

Before activating, verify:

• Server vendor (Dell, HP, Supermicro, Lenovo, Cisco UCS) — affects BMC access and tools.
• Provisioning tool (MAAS, Metal3, Foreman, Cobbler, custom PXE).
• Network boot setup (PXE, iPXE, HTTP boot, UEFI HTTP(S) Boot).
• BMC networking (dedicated BMC port vs shared; VLAN; IP range).
• OS/target image (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, VMware ESXi, custom).
• RAID controller model (PERC, Smart Array, MegaRAID, NVMe-native).