Re: [Freeipmi-users] Wrong values from a Winbond WPCM450 BMC

[Albert Chu]

Hi Paul,

I doubt there was an issue with reading the wrong values from the BMC.  I
have seen many BMCs where the vendor populates the BMC with "poor" choices
of default values.  In fact, sometimes I've seen vendors populate the BMC
with illegal values (e.g. 0x1-0x4 are the only legal values, but the
default value populated in the BMC is 0x7).

Al


On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Paul van der Vlis <address@hidden>
wrote:

> [this message did not arrive in the list, so I am sending it again]
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to tell you about what happened using bmc-config on my
> Supermicro X8DTU-F with Winbond WPCM450 BMC.
>
> This machine has an dedicated IPMI port, but I am using a shared port to
> use less switch ports.
>
> At home I made the network settings in the bios. In the datacenter I had
> to change the IP and I used bmc-config for it to do that remote. But
> IPMI did not work anymore.
>
> I could ping to the IPMI IP, and I saw the webinterface on the IPMI IP,
> but every password was wrong. ipmiping gave a timeout.
>
> After long searching I found the problem, I had to change the setttings
> of Volatile_Access_Mode and Non_Volatile_Access_Mode. They where
> "Disabled" and after I set them to "Always_Available" and a cold-reset
> IPMI did work again. (I've also tried "Shared" but this gave an error).
>
> Not sure how this is possible. I did read the settings from the IPMI
> with:  bmc-config -o > bmc-config
> And I've only changed the network settings.
>
> I think bmc-config did read wrong values from the bmc?
>
> When I do that now again, I get the correct values for the access modes,
> but now it was configured with bmc-config.
>
> With regards,
> Paul van der Vlis.
>
>
>
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