RE: [Freeipmi-users] ASUS IPMI card

[Al Chu]

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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> > Computer Scientist
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> > 
> 
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Albert Chu
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High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory