Re: [Freeipmi-users] freeipmi to X4150/X4450

[Al Chu]

Hey Ihara,

On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 01:24 +0900, Shuichi Ihara wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 
> >> Here is a write paper of X4150/X4450.
> >> http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4150/wp.pdf
> > 
> > I'll add this.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > 
> >> One question:
> >> If we have a cluster and that consists of Intel and AMD servers, how
> >> we can use "two"
> >> workaround word for each servers in /etc/ipmipower.conf?
> > 
> > Dealing with heterogenous clusters with multiple non-compliant IPMI
> > implementations wasn't something I had in mind early on :-)    But I
> > know its a problem that I already have on my todo list.  I wrote about
> > it here:
> > 
> > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freeipmi-users/2008-03/msg00000.html
> 
> OK. If it's possible, one configuration file would be better, but I just 
> wanted
> to use the powerman with freeipmi. The current freeipmi supports "--config" 
> option.
> So, that's useful and we can use two configuration files to be 
> /etc/powerman/powerman.conf.
> 
> e.g) a[01-04]s, i[01-04]s are service processor's (ILOM, eLOM) address for 
> each nodes
> 
> /etc/ipmipower_ilom.conf (for AMD servers, configured "endianseq" as 
> workaround)
> /etc/ipmipower_elom.conf (for Intel servers, configured "authcap")
> 
> /etc/powerman/powerman.conf
> include "/etc/powerman/ipmipower.dev"
> device "pow0" "ipmipower" "/usr/sbin/ipmipower -h a[01-04]s --config 
> /etc/ipmipower_ilom.conf |&"
> node "a[01-04]" "pow0" "a[01-04]s"
> 
> device "pow1" "ipmipower" "/usr/sbin/ipmipower -h i[01-04]s --config 
> /etc/ipmipower_elom.conf |&"
> node "i[01-04]" "pow1" "i[01-04]s"
> 
> MK your comments.

I think you got it.  This is pretty much the way I would have expected
someone to deal with this in powerman.

Al

> > 
> >> BTW, ipmi-fru still failing and can't dump all of fru information. It
> > seems different issue.
> >> # ipmi-fru -h 10.173.69.39  -u root -p changeme  -W "authcap"
> >> -snip-
> >>   FRU Get FRU Inventory Area Failure: bad completion code: request
> > data/parameter invalid
> >>   FRU Get FRU Inventory Area Failure: bad completion code: request
> > data/parameter invalid
> >> -snip-
> >>
> >> Please see attached dump file with "--debug" option.
> > 
> > I'll take a look (will probably not get to this one till next week
> > though.)
> 
> Thanks, I will make sure that you mentioned in another email about same 
> testing with
> ipmitool to elom. I will update you soon.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> -Ihara
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