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

[Paul van der Vlis]

Hello Albert,

op 25-10-14 19:47, Albert Chu schreef:
> 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).

Doesn't bmc-config read the actual used values, but something else?

Is it possible to use a BMC from another vendor?

Which vendors make nice and good BMC's?

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.


> 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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>>
>>
>>
>>
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