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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question
From: |
Albert Chu |
Subject: |
Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question |
Date: |
Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:25:57 -0800 |
Hey Rene,
Could you try passing the privilege option -p admin to bmc-config?
Note to A.B. & Bala, the fact that bmc-config typically rquires admin
privileges (unlike ipmipower, ipmi-sensors, etc) should probably be
noted in the manpage. Or perhaps defaulted to inside bmc-config??
Al
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
----- Original Message -----
From: Rene Salmon <address@hidden>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:41 pm
Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiping newbie question
>
> 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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> --
> Rene Salmon
> Tulane University
> Center for Computational Science
> Richardson Building 310
> New Orleans, LA 70118
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>
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