Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610

[Albert Chu]

On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 09:28 +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 01:01:31PM -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
> > I'm sorry, but that version is ancient.  It's the same version that was
> > in RHEL5, but for some reason Redhat didn't bother to pull down a new
> > version (0.7.6 was released February 2009, 0.8.1 in December 2009, 1.0
> > in January 2011, 1.1 in January 2012, 1.2 in August 2012).
> 
> I just built the latest version (1.2.5) and the specfile works like a charm.
> Using the 'solpayloadsize' workaround does the trick! I should have
> mentioned the version from the start, sorry for wasting your time.

Great. If you can (assuming you have a support contract with Redhat),
please submit a bug.  It makes no sense that they are on 0.7.6.

> I'm planning to use the '-config-file' option to add the correct workaround
> flag. I can do this on a per-bmc type in conserver.cf. Would that be the
> recommended way?

Yes, that's actually the intended purpose of the --config-file option,
so that different tweaks can be done per motherboard as needed.

Al

> Thanks again
> 
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