Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmi support with HP iLO2 servers initial success!

[Albert Chu]

Hi Chris,

> For freeipmi (ipmipower) I found the following combination worked:
> ---
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: authentication type unavailable for attempted privilege level

This isn't good.  It suggests that the HP firmware might be returning
bad/poor information in the Get Authentication Capabilities phase of
IPMI.  Does ipmipower work if you also specify the authcap workaround?
(-W authcap).

If it does work, then there is a bug.  Perhaps you can send me a --debug
output and we can take a look to figure out what the bug is.

Al

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 15:29 -0700, Christopher Maestas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> With the recent update of the 2.00 iLO2 firmware, we can now support:
> 
> 
>    - "IPMI over LAN" functionality. The IPMI 2.0 RMCP+ (or Linux ipmitool
>    "lanplus") protocol is supported with this release.
>    - IPMI Serial Over LAN (SOL)
>    - Data Center Manageability Interface (DCMI) v1.0 specification
>    - Enhanced the "in band" Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI)
>    to comply with the IPMI specification version 2.0
> 
> I've been able to use ipmitool to test this successfully (power, SOL and
> sensor gathering).  Here's what I do with ipmitool:
> ---
> # rpm -q ipmitool
> ipmitool-1.8.11-1
> # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power status
> Chassis Power is off
> # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power on
> Chassis Power Control: Up/On
> # ipmitool -I lanplus -H cut0iogw1-ilo -U USER -P PASS power status
> Chassis Power is on
> ---
> 
> For freeipmi (ipmipower) I found the following combination worked:
> ---
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: authentication type unavailable for attempted privilege level
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -f
> cut0iogw1-ilo: ok
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: off
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -n
> cut0iogw1-ilo: ok
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo -D LAN_2_0 -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> ---
> 
> I set the following in /etc/freeipmi.conf:
> ---
> driver-type LAN_2_0
> ---
> 
> and it seems to work ok for the lo100 and ilo2 servers just fine.
> ---
> # ipmipower -h cut0iogw1-ilo  -s
> cut0iogw1-ilo: on
> # ipmipower -h cut0admin1-lo  -s
> cut0admin1-lo: on
> ---
> 
> I figure there may be other functional tests for ipmi compliance I can run
> now that the initial flags have been worked around for freeipmi's ipmipower
> command.  Then I figure on changing powerman/conman to use ipmi drivers for
> ilo devices and see how that works.
> 
> Thanks,
> -cdm
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Albert Chu
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