Re: [Freeipmi-users] iDRAC7 IPMI error

[akrus]

After playing a bit found the problem.
I've created the user via ipmitool with User privilege. It looked OK
from iDRAC, but something went wrong. So I switched User->Administrator 
privilege and back and everything is working well now. Not sure why
ipmitool user creation caused this, but it looks like a bug in iDRAC
firmware (?).
Thanks for your help, I'll try to reproduce this with another server
and submit a report to Dell.
On Wed, 2018-05-02 at 16:06 +0000, Chu, Al wrote:
> I realize I said something stupid in the last post.  I was confusing
> "SDR" with "SEL" in my head.  I assume this log came specifically
> from ipmi-sel?
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> So I'm assuming when you say ipmitool works, its working with
> ipmitool sel commands?
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> Al
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> From: Freeipmi-users <address@hidden>
> on behalf of Chu, Al <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 8:54:42 AM
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> To: akrus; address@hidden
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> Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] iDRAC7 IPMI error
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> Hi,
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> I'm assuming this log is from ipmi-sensors, ipmi-sel, or ipmi-fru? 
> For some reason, the remote system isn't recognizing/responding to
> the "reserve SEL" request.  Lets try to get some debug info.
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> 1) When you use ipmitool, are you using "-I lan" or "-I lanplus"?
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> I'm wondering if this is a ipmi 1.5 vs ipmi 2.0 issue, b/c you're
> using ipmi 2.0 w/ FreeIPMI in this log.
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> 2) Have you tried using "-D lan" with FreeIPMI?
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> To see if this is a ipmi 1.5 vs ipmi 2.0 issue with FreeIPMI.
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> 3) Have you tried using bmc-info across the network?
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> To see if this is specific to the "Reserve SEL" command vs something
> IPMI 1.5 vs IPMI 2.0 related.  Perhaps you can try w/ -D lan and -D
> lan20 to see if it works with both IPMI 1.5 and IPMI 2.0.
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> 4) Could you try "ipmi-sel --info" across the network.  This command
> does not reserve the SEL, it's yet another data point.
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> Thanks,
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> Al
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> ________________________________
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> From: akrus <address@hidden>
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> Sent: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:15:51 AM
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> To: Chu, Al; address@hidden
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> Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] iDRAC7 IPMI error
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> Hi,
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> Yes, I tried all the workaround options and it didn't help. Attaching
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> debug output here.
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> PS> ipmitool works well for remote connections, freeipmi works well
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> only with local IPMI device
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> On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 10:32 -0700, Albert Chu wrote:
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> > Hi Akrus,
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> > I assume you have tried some of the workaround options, and none of
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> > them work?
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> > Could you post the --debug output from one of your connection
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> > attempts.
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> >  Perhaps the iDRAC7 has changed some internal implementation that
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> > doesn't jive with FreeIPMI.
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> >
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> > Al
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> > On Mon, 2018-04-30 at 17:05 +0300, akrus wrote:
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> > > Hello!
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> > >
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> > > I have Dell R620 server here with iDRAC7 (latest firmware) and
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> > > FreeIPMI
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> > > (tested 1.4.11 and 1.6.2), it always fails with internal IPMI
> error
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> > > using LAN_2_0.
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> > > I can see that the server is responding over the network, but for
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> > > some
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> > > reason freeipmi fails.
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> > > Did anyone experience same problem?
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> > >
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> > > Regards,
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> > > akrus.
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