RE: [Freeipmi-users] ASUS IPMI card

[Al Chu]

Just as a follow up on the mailing list, Evan and I have been going back
and forth.  The Asus motherboards have a few IPMI compliance issues.  So
we're hammering them out.  A few workarounds to these issues can be
expected in a future FreeIPMI.

Al

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:43 -0700, Al Chu wrote:
> Hey Evan,
> 
> Just so I'm not mistaken, you're saying that ipmi-sensors works over the
> LAN, but ipmipower and ipmiconsole don't? Also, just to make sure,
> you're using FreeIPMI 0.4.2?
> 
> > Are the SOL Enable/Disable commands sent by the ipmipower tool, or the
> > Deactivate Payload commands?
> 
> The SOL enable/disable & Deactivate payload commands are specific to
> SOL, don't worry about them for ipmipower.
> 
> > Using the bmc-config tool, my SOL_Conf section is completely blank.
> 
> It's quite possible Asus implemented that section incorrectly, which is
> why they provided you with special openipmicmd calls.  
> 
> There's a lot of debugging we can do to get to the bottom of this.  Lets
> start with just ipmipower to make things simpler.  Can you try using the
> FreeIPMI debug rpms (on the webpage, or if you are compiling from
> source, just add --enable-debug when you run ./configure) so we can get
> extra debug info?
> 
> With ipmipower try:
> 
> > ipmipower -h <yournode> -u <yourusername> -p <yourpassword> -l admin
> --stat --debug --ipmidump
> 
> The above gets me a bunch of info for an IPMI 1.5 lan session.
> 
> > ipmipower -h <yournode> -u <yourusername> -p <yourpassword> -l admin -
> R 2.0 -T 2 --debug --ipmidump --stat
> 
> The second one copies exactly the authentication/encryption options
> given by the "Set SOL Enable" given below.  So I can get more debug info
> that way too.
> 
> You may want to try w/o the debug options first, just to see if they
> work first of course :-)
> 
> Thanks,
> Al
> 
> On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 10:06 -0700, Felix, Evan J wrote:
> > I had not as of yet setup other accounts, so I set one up using the
> > User3 config tools using the bmc_config program.  Before this I had used
> > the admin user on User2. I enabled the Capabilities you mentioned below.
> > Unfortunatly I still get the invalid username from the ipmipower and
> > ipmiconsole tools.  
> > 
> > In looking at the asus provided changes to the OpenIPMI stack they
> > provide this code to access a console:
> > -----------------------------code
> > # Set SOL Enable
> > ./openipmicmd -k "0f 00 0c 21 01 01 01"          lan -U admin -P
> > $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri hmac_sha1 -Rc
> > none $SOL_IP 623
> > 
> > # Activate Payload
> > ./openipmicmd -k "0f 00 06 48 01 01 00 00 00 00" lan -U admin -P
> > $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri hmac_sha1 -Rc
> > none $SOL_IP 623
> > 
> > # Set SOL Baud Rate
> > ./openipmicmd -k "0f 00 0c 21 01 05 $SOL_BAUD_RATE_TYPE"          lan -U
> > admin -P $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri
> > hmac_sha1 -Rc none $SOL
> > _IP 623
> > 
> > clear
> > # Start SOL console
> > ./solterm lan -U admin -P $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra
> > rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri none -Rc none -bitrate=$SOL_BAUD_RATE $SOL_IP
> > -holdoff
> > 
> > # Set SOL Disable
> > ./openipmicmd -k "0f 00 0c 21 01 01 00"          lan -U admin -P
> > $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri hmac_sha1 -Rc
> > none $SOL_IP 623
> > 
> > # Deactivate Payload
> > ./openipmicmd -k "0f 00 06 49 01 01 00 00 00 00" lan -U admin -P
> > $SOL_ADMIN_PASSWD -L admin -A rmcp+ -Ra rakp_hmac_sha1 -Ri hmac_sha1 -Rc
> > none $SOL_IP 623
> > ---------------------------------endcode
> > 
> > Are the SOL Enable/Disable commands sent by the ipmipower tool, or the
> > Deactivate Payload commands?
> > 
> > Using the bmc-config tool, my SOL_Conf section is completely blank.
> > 
> > Evan
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Al Chu [mailto:address@hidden 
> > > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 9:17 AM
> > > To: Felix, Evan J
> > > Cc: address@hidden
> > > Subject: Re: [Freeipmi-users] ASUS IPMI card
> > > 
> > > Hey Evan,
> > > 
> > > I worked w/ Asus a few months back on some "sanity" checking 
> > > if FreeIPMI worked with their motherboards.  Although there 
> > > were some nit-IPMI compliance complaints, they reported it 
> > > worked fine (of course who knows what motherboard/firmware 
> > > version they worked on).
> > > 
> > > Anyways, if you are getting username invalid errors, it's 
> > > usually typical of the remote BMC not being configured 
> > > correctly.  I take it you configured several new usernames?  
> > > Did you turn on "Enable_User", and "Lan_Enable_IPMI_Msgs" and 
> > > setup an appropriate "Lan_Privilege_Limit"
> > > for the user?
> > > 
> > > Al
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 09:04 -0700, Felix, Evan J wrote:
> > > > Has anyone worked with the ASUS ASMB3 IPMI management card 
> > > on ASUS motherboards.  Many of the uilities work, but some of 
> > > them just return a username invalid when you use them.  The 
> > > bmc-config utility works fine locally.  The ipmi-sensors and 
> > > impi-chassis seem to work fine.  The ipmi-power, and 
> > > ipmi-console error out with a username invalid.  The 
> > > ipmiconsole also does this. 
> > > > 
> > > > So, Anybody used this card with freeipmi, and any 
> > > suggestions on how I can figure out what it is doing. 
> > > > 
> > > > I do know that the utility that asus provides as a modified 
> > > OpenIPMI tarball uses rcmp+ commands to connect as the console.
> > > > 
> > > > Evan
> > > > 
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> > > > 
> > > --
> > > Albert Chu
> > > address@hidden
> > > 925-422-5311
> > > Computer Scientist
> > > High Performance Systems Division
> > > Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
> > > 
> > 
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory