On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 11:56 +0200, Emmanuel Thomé wrote: > Hi. > > I'm trying to set up ipmi (1.5) management using the bmc on ibm > eserver326 machines. Yes, these machines are old. they are cheap and nasty rebadged MSI boxes. > So far, I've been able to access the bmc with ipmitool, and configure it > as correctly as I could for remote access. > > When trying to access it from afar, I successfully activate a session, > but further requests are unanswered. > > Some dumps of ipmitool commands are included below. Well that's your problem, it don't work with ipmitools :-( > If anybody has an idea of what's going on, that would be greatly > appreciated. > I suggest switching to freeipmi which does work. > I might also try to flash the bmc firmware, as it seems that ibm released > a newer firmware for these servers. But I'm already a bit puzzled by > the situation so far. I would if I where you. I would also do the BIOS, BMC and hard disk firmware at a minimum if I where you. The diagnostics are option. Note that you cannot configure bonding on eth0 and use the IPMI interface. Even when you get it working it is not reliable. I have seen boxes hang and refuse to respond to IPMI commands to reboot. I have also never been able to get the serial over LAN bit working either. They are just cheap and nasty. JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +441382-386998 Storage Administrator, College of Life Sciences University of Dundee, DD1 5EH -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
