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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question
From: |
Rene Salmon |
Subject: |
Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:41:02 -0600 |
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Thunderbird 1.5 (Macintosh/20051201) |
Hi,
Thanks for the help. Yes you are correct IPMI only works on eth0 on the
IBM e326. Once I connected both server with a cross over cable on eth0 I
can now
athena ipmitool-1.8.7/bin# ipmiping 192.168.0.11
ipmiping 192.168.0.11 (192.168.0.11)
response received from 192.168.0.11: rq_seq=54
response received from 192.168.0.11: rq_seq=55
--- ipmiping 192.168.0.11 statistics ---
2 requests transmitted, 2 responses received in time, 0.0% packet loss
Now for the next step I would like checkout the config to file so that I
can make some changes. Something like this.
athena ipmitool-1.8.7/bin# bmc-config -h 192.168.0.11 -u admin -o
Section User1
## Give username
Username NULL
## Possible values: Yes/No or blank to not set
Enable_User
## Give password or blank to clear. Max 20 chars for IPMI 2.0.
Max 16 chars on IPMI 1.5
Password
This BMC does not support option [LAN_Enable_IPMI_Msgs].
This BMC does not support option [LAN_Enable_Link_Auth].
This BMC does not support option [LAN_Enable_Restrict_To_Callback].
This BMC does not support option [LAN_Privilege_Limit].
This BMC does not support option [LAN_Session_Limit].
This BMC does not support option [SOL_Payload_Access].
This BMC does not support option [Serial_Enable_IPMI_Msgs].
Basically all the options are not supported. I think this might be a
privilege permission issue or user name password thing. I am very new
to this so not sure where to look?
I had to use ipmtool to set things up inband but now I am trying to use
freeipmi to do the rest. Here is the user list:
crash ipmitool-1.8.7/bin# ./ipmitool -I open user list 1
ID Name Callin Link Auth IPMI Msg Channel Priv Limit
1 true true true USER
2 Operator true true true OPERATOR
3 admin true true true ADMINISTRATOR
4 OEM true true true OEM
How do I check for passwords? any clues?
Thanks
Rene
Albert Chu wrote:
Hi Rene,
As you can see Server A can't even ping itself. Any idea as to
what I am missing here?
Unlike normal 'ping', ipmiping and rmcpping cannot actually ping the
machine you are on. Ipmiping and rmcpping must send a packet onto the
network so it can reach the service processor sitting on the network
card. So this failure is expected. However, I can see where someone
new to ipmi wouldn't see this immediately. I will put a note about this
in the manpages.
If I understand the way this works correctly Server B can actually be
powered off with no OS and as long as the server is connected to the
network and has power it should replay to the ipmiping and other
commands correct?
You're correct. As long as the service processor is configured properly
(I would assume the 'lancfg' program would do it) an OS on the remote
machine shouldn't be required. Have you tried having the cross-over
cable connected to both eth0 and eth1? The IPMI NIC may be on eth0 not
eth1?
Could you also try 'rmcpping' just for kicks? It could indicate one
thing is mis-configured while another isn't.
I'll also forward your e-mail off to another IBM IPMI user I know. He
may know something subtle that I don't.
Al
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