Thank's for your answer. I went trough the documentation this morning and found the same. By the way: The fence_ipmilan tool has a problem if the password contains a character which is interpreted by the shell as for example "$". Pedro > > It is not necessary to develop a fencing agent for SUN. Just use the ipmi > agent, it works, as SUN supports IPMI 2.0 on the X4x00. > > How to do it: > > Create a user for fencing through the SUN Remote Service Board Web > Management, > give this user full rights. > > Install if not already done: OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools > > Test the fencing with the following command: > > fence_ipmilan -l username -p password -a IPAddresse-management -o status - > v > > This should give you back something like: > > Getting status of IPMI:192.168.160.12...Spawning: '/usr/bin/ipmitool -I > lan -H > IPaddress -U username -P password -v chassis power status'... > Chassis power = On > Done > > > For SUN Fire V40Z servers fencing will also work with IPMI, but it is a > little > bit different, as it only support IPMI 1.5: > > Log in through ssh to the Remote Service board, enable ipmi: > > ipmi enable channel lan > > (uhh, you should give ipmi a password, but don't ask how, look into the > documentation) > > The fencing command looks like the following: > > fence_ipmilan -p password -a IPAddresse-management -o status -v > > Note that there is no Username! > > Sincerly, > Klaus > > > -- > Klaus Steinberger Beschleunigerlaboratorium > Phone: (+49 89)289 14287 Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany > FAX: (+49 89)289 14280 EMail: Klaus.Steinberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > URL: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~Klaus.Steinberger/ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
