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

[Christopher Maestas]

Al,

I'm sorry I should have tagged that first case of using ipmipower as an
error.  Once I added "-D LAN_2_0 " things worked great.  I think I also
figured out the freeipmi.conf parameter (driver-type LAN_2_0) to change to
make it work by default and still talk to lo100 and iLO devices without any
issue at first glance

Things are running fine now.  I will continue to do some more testing
tomorrow with SOL, sensor gatherings.  In addition I will try and report
back on conman/powerman using their ipmi drivers work against the iLO server
as well.

Finally I will try and take a look at some tests specified here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/freeipmi-testing.txt

and report back.

-cdm

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>