Re: [Freeipmi-users] Tyan Thunder S2882 with m3289 bmc module

[Albert Chu]

Hi Josh,

Are you sure you have username/password/privilege/authentication
configuration setup correctly??

For security purposes, I believe some BMCs (under certain configuration
and error conditions) will not reply to messages.  This can give off the
resemblance that the network connection is bad, and thus ipmipower can
"time out".

Al

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Albert Chu
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bala.A" <address@hidden>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 1:12 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] Tyan Thunder S2882 with m3289 bmc module

> Hi,
> 
> Can you try ipmipower with the following conditions?
> 
> 1. Bring up ONLY on-board Intel Pro100 card (IPMI).
> 2. Try ipmipower with cross-over cable connected to another machine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Best Regards
> Bala
> 
> 
> > On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:54:06PM -0600, Joshua Williams wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 10:40:55AM -0800, Bala.A wrote:
> >> > Hi
> >> >
> >> > > Sorry for the confusion on my end... This is an S2882 and 
> there were
> >> > > actually four ethernet cards in the system.  Three onboard 
> and one
> >> > > PCI (another Intel - eth3).  I was trying to give the BMC the
> >> addresses
> >> > > of the PCI card (eth3).  Once I figured things out I gave it 
> the>> > > addresses of the onboard Intel card (eth2) and started 
> using eth2 as
> >> > > the primary network interface, ipmiping and rmcpping started to
> >> work.
> >> > > I can't get 'ipmipower --stat' to work though.  I get the 
> simple>> message:
> >> > >
> >> > >        # ipmipower --stat --hostname tomato
> >> > >        tomato: timed out
> >> >
> >> > 1. Your on-board Intel Pro100 card should be up and running 
> with same
> >> IP
> >> > address of BMC in GNU/Linux. This is known problem in SMDC 
> firmware.>>
> >> This is true:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ifconfig eth2
> >> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:81:2B:0A:AC
> >>           inet addr:10.0.65.3  Bcast:10.0.65.255  
> Mask:255.255.255.0>> ...
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# bmc-config --checkout
> >> ...
> >> Section LAN_Conf
> >>         ## Possible values:
> >> Unspecified/Static/Use_DHCP/Use_BIOS/Use_Others
> >>         Ip_Address_Source                            Static
> >>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Ip_Address                                   10.0.65.3
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Mac_Address                                  
> 00:E0:81:2B:0A:AC>>         ## Give valid Subnet mask
> >>         Subnet_Mask                                  255.255.255.0
> >>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Default_Gateway_Ip_Address                   10.0.65.1
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Default_Gateway_Mac_Address                  
> 00:00:00:00:00:00>>         ## Give valid IP Address
> >>         Backup_Gateway_Ip_Address                    10.0.65.1
> >>         ## Give valid MAC Address
> >>         Backup_Gateway_Mac_Address                   
> 00:00:00:00:00:00>> EndSection
> >> ...
> >>
> >> > 2. Install GNU FreeIPMI in another machine (This machine 
> should be in
> >> same
> >> > network of IPMI machine by on-board Intel Pro100 card).
> >>
> >> Installed on:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# rpm -q freeipmi
> >> freeipmi-0.1.3-0.20041102
> >
> > Sorry, this should have read:
> >
> > address@hidden root]# rpm -q freeipmi
> > freeipmi-0.1.3-0.20041102
> >
> > - Josh
> >
> >> address@hidden root]# ifconfig
> >> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:2A:FC:B4
> >>           inet addr:10.0.3.81  Bcast:10.0.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
> >> ...
> >>
> >> This is on a 10.0.3.x subnet while the IPMI card is on a 10.0.65.x
> >> subnet.  Should not matter though because as you'll see below, 
> ipmiping>> works between the two.
> >>
> >> > 3. Test ICMP ping to IPMI machine.  This should be working.
> >>
> >> This works:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ping 10.0.65.3
> >> PING 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=62 time=0.447 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=0.386 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=0.373 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=0.382 ms
> >> 64 bytes from 10.0.65.3: icmp_seq=4 ttl=62 time=0.365 ms
> >>
> >> --- 10.0.65.3 ping statistics ---
> >> 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms
> >> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.365/0.390/0.447/0.036 ms, pipe 2
> >>
> >> > 4. If ICMP ping is successful, test whether ipmipower, 
> ipmiping and
> >> > rcmpping are working or not.
> >>
> >> ipmiping works:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ipmiping 10.0.65.3
> >> ipmiping 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3)
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=0
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=1
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=2
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=3
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=4
> >> response received from 10.0.65.3: rq_seq=5
> >> --- ipmiping 10.0.65.3 statistics ---
> >> 6 requests transmitted, 6 responses received in time, 0.0% 
> packet loss
> >>
> >> As does rmcpping:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# rmcpping 10.0.65.3
> >> rmcpping 10.0.65.3 (10.0.65.3)
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=0
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=1
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=2
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=3
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=4
> >> pong received from 10.0.65.3: msg_tag=5
> >> --- rmcpping 10.0.65.3 statistics ---
> >> 6 pings transmitted, 6 pongs received in time, 0.0% packet loss
> >>
> >> What fails is ipmipower:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# ipmipower --stat --hostnames 10.0.65.3
> >> 10.0.65.3: timed out
> >>
> >> This should not be an IPMI IP port issue (section 13.1 of freeipmi
> >> documentation) because:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# tail -n 4 /etc/services
> >> # BMC IPMI/RMCP services
> >> rmcp    623/udp         # Aux Bus Shunt (Primary RMCP Port)
> >> rmcps   664/udp         # Secure Aux Bus (Secondary RMCP Port)
> >>
> >> I also have done the following:
> >>
> >> address@hidden root]# touch -f /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new
> >> address@hidden root]# ls --inode /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey*
> >> 3533355 /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey  3533399 
> /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new>> address@hidden root]# mv -f 
> /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey.new>> /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >> address@hidden root]# ls --inode /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >> 3533399 /var/lib/freeipmi/ipckey
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> - Josh
> >>
> >> > Please try these steps and let me know.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > > The S2882 BIOS and the SMDC firware are the latest up to date
> >> versions.
> >> > > The only sign of something amiss is the following bmc-config 
> output:>> > >
> >> > > ...
> >> > > Section Serial_Channel
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Access_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Access_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_User_Level_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Per_Message_Auth>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Enable_Pef_Alerting>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Non_Volatile_Channel_Privilege_Limit>
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > > Section Serial_Conf
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Basic_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_PPP_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_Terminal_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Connect_Mode>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Page_Blackout_Interval>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Call_Retry_Time>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Enable_DTR_Hangup>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Flow_Control>
> >> > > Error in checkout of key <Bit_Rate>
> >> > > EndSection
> >> > > ...
> >> >
> >> > Tyan does not support Serial Channel in BMC.  You can safely 
> ignore>> this
> >> > as warnings and they are not related with ipmipower,ipmiping or
> >> rmcpping.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Thanks,
> >> >
> >> > Best Regards
> >> > Bala
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Free as in Freedom
> >> > http://www.gnu.org/
> >
> >
> 
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