I also had the same issue, i guess it is not a bug, basically if you create the baremetal node with system_scope=all the owner field of the node is empty, in order to be able have ironic-inspector able to create port related to a baremetal node you need to set the owner of the node to the service project_id.
I also had the same issue, i guess it is not a bug, basically if you create the baremetal node with system_scope=all the owner field of the node is empty, in order to be able have ironic-inspector able to create port related to a baremetal node you need to set the owner of the node to the service project_id.