Re: [Freeipmi-users] Help | Cannot Detect Nodes with IPMI

[Jeff Van]

Hi Al,

Thank you for the response!

As a follow up question, would you happen to be able to describe how one
might do BIOS configs to determine which port allows IPMI?

After searching on the internet on how to do it, I've tried the following
on the head node:
Pressed F2 to enter system setup after system Power-On Self-Test (POST, or
while it's booting up). However, after combing through the settings
options, I could not find any information about IPMI and associated ports.
The closest thing I could find was under "Integrated Devices", where it
displayed the capabilities of the NIC ports, which I've included a
screenshot of, in this email. However, none of the NIC ports display IPMI
or idrac under the "capabilities" section. Additionally, in my
configurations, I have NIC Selection set to Shared on both the head node
and the node I am trying to communicate with, in case that makes a
difference.

I've also tried pressing ctrl + e after POST, but that takes me to
configurations that are very similar to pressing F10.

I've also tried pressing F10 to enter hardware configuration settings, but
I was not able to find any useful information there either.

If there is any other useful information or advice that you could give me,
I would very much appreciate it! I understand that you must be busy, so
thank you again for taking the time to help me with this.

Additionally, I have included a diagram of the physical ports on the back
of my Dell Poweredge R710. Currently, the cable connecting the two nodes
are plugged in the left-most port in at number 10 of the diagram.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:22 PM, Albert Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> > I have double checked the BMC configuration for these nodes, and they
> > seem to be correct (I can provide screenshots if necessary),
> > however, I am still unable to communicate with these servers using
> > IPMI. (eg. ipmipower, ipmiping, etc. all do not work.) and I am not
> > sure what else I can do. If anybody could help me or point me in the
> > right direction, I would very much appreciate it!
>
> It's hard to know for sure what the problem could or could not be.  But
> if ipmiping isn't even working, that means something very basic is not
> configured correctly.  Here's some ideas of what to look at:
>
> A) ensure that basic networking is setup correctly on both client and
> server.  i.e. valid IP, subnet, MAC, etc.  Most use a different IP
> address from their "main" IP address for the node.  Ensure that this IP
> address can be resolved on the client (i.e. IP converted into MAC
> address).  You can check the ARP cache to see if it's been done
> correctly.
>
> B) ensure IPMI is enabled (most notably LAN_Channel configuration).
>
> C) ensure you're using the right networking port.  Many motherboards
> only support IPMI on one of their networking ports if there is > 1.  Or
> sometimes BIOS configs need to be done to determine which port allows
> IPMI.
>
> I've personally worked with Poweredges before, and suspect C above is
> your problem.  You may want to look into the ipmi-oem command manpage
> and read through some of the extensions in there for "Dell" and any
> commands that apply to Poweredges.
>
> Al
>
> On Mon, 2018-01-08 at 17:04 -0800, Jeff Van wrote:
> > Hello! I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question,
> > but if
> > not, please let me know where I can direct my question.
> >
> > I am currently using MAAS Version 1.9.5+bzr4599-0ubuntu1 with Ubuntu
> > 14.04.5, with three nodes (all Dell PowerEdge R710). I am currently
> > trying
> > to use IPMI version 2.0.
> >
> > However, I am unable to power-up these nodes with IPMI, due to an
> > error:
> > Failed to query node's BMC - Power state could not be queried:
> > 10.1.10.134:
> > connection timeout
> >
> > In /var/log/maas/maas.log, an identical error message appears.
> >
> > I have double checked the BMC configuration for these nodes, and they
> > seem
> > to be correct (I can provide screenshots if necessary), however, I am
> > still
> > unable to communicate with these servers using IPMI. (eg. ipmipower,
> > ipmiping, etc. all do not work.) and I am not sure what else I can
> > do. If
> > anybody could help me or point me in the right direction, I would
> > very much
> > appreciate it!
> >
> > If there's any more useful information that I can provide, please let
> > me
> > know.
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> Albert Chu
> address@hidden
> Computer Scientist
> High Performance Systems Division
> Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
>
>