Re: [Freeipmi-users] Serial over Lan v1.5?

[Jarrad - ElysiumTech.com.au]

Thanks Al,

Upgrading to the latest version certainly fixed the ipmi-sensors  
problem.

What a shame about the SoL specs...guess I just have to work out how  
to get IBM Director installed and working.

Keep up the great work :-)

Jarrad


On 08/10/2008, at 12:23 PM, Al Chu wrote:

> Hey Jarrad,
>
> First, I'd recommend upgrading to FreeIPMI 0.6.9.  There's been a  
> lot of
> fixes since then for a variety of things.
>
> > I'm also using CentOs 5.2 and getting an error when trying to use
> > ipmi-sensors. The error is "SDR Cache creation failed: cache does
> > not exist" but the folder ~/.freeipmi/sdr-cache does exist...
> > although empty.
>
> As for your specific error, I'm not 100% off the top of my head.  If  
> you
> could run with --debug, it could get us a clue.  There should be data
> within the directory ~/.freeipmi/sdr-cache/ after the first  
> execution of
> ipmi-sensors.  The filename should be in the format
> sdr-cache-<hostyouareon>.<hostyouarereadingfrom>.
>
> If a file isn't being created, it's probably an error reading the SDR
> cache from the remote system (which I can get an idea on the error w/
> --debug output).  Or possibly an error on the creation of the
> directory/reading from the directory.  Are all the permissions for the
> directories fine?  It's possible I have a corner case somewhere in  
> that
> code that made incorrect assumptions on creation bitmasks.
>
> > The servers only support ipmi 1.5 and I'm having
> > trouble working out how/if freeipmi supports SoL for v1.5.
> > Ipmiconsole only seems to support v2.0.
>
> I'm afraid you're a bit out of luck on this part for FreeIPMI.  The  
> IPMI
> 1.5 standard actually does not include SOL.  Several vendors  
> implemented
> their own protocol for SOL into IPMI 1.5.  So you pretty much have to
> use the vendor software to use SOL w/ IPMI 1.5 b/c the protocol isn't
> known.
>
> The project 'ipmitool' did reverse engineer a few IPMI 1.5 SOL
> implementations.  I have no idea how well they reverse engineered it,
> but you may want to give it a shot (assuming you're lucky enough to  
> have
> a motherboard that has been reverse engineered already).
>
> Hope that helps,
> Al
>
> On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:20 +1100, Jarrad - ElysiumTech.com.au wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > Just joined up as I'm trying to get a bunch of servers set up using
> > Serial over Lan. The servers only support ipmi 1.5 and I'm having
> > trouble working out how/if freeipmi supports SoL for v1.5.
> > Ipmiconsole only seems to support v2.0.
> >
> > I'm also using CentOs 5.2 and getting an error when trying to use  
> > ipmi-
> > sensors. The error is "SDR Cache creation failed: cache does not
> > exist" but the folder ~/.freeipmi/sdr-cache does exist... although
> > empty.
> >
> > for reference centos comes with 0.51 of freeipmi.
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> > Jarrad
> >
> >
> >
> >
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