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Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610
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Albert Chu |
Subject: |
Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610 |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:16:50 -0700 |
Hi Fabian,
What version of FreeIPMI are you using. It took me awhile to remember,
but I fixed a bug for a number of Dell machines (including M610) awhile
back. The key issue was in the "Get Payload Activation Status
Response".
[ 4Ah] = cmd[ 8b]
[ 0h] = comp_code[ 8b]
[ 0h] = instance_capacity[ 4b]
[ 1h] = reserved[ 4b]
[ 1h] = instance_1[ 1b]
[ 0h] = instance_2[ 1b]
The
[ 1h] = instance_1[ 1b]
tells me that the motherboard still has an SOL session active. That's
not a big deal. All I got to do is deactivate that session before
activating a new SOL session. (Note that I do not know why your server
believes another session is active. It could be another SOL session is
actually going or it's a bug in the IPMI firmware.)
However, what I found on Dell M610s awhile back was that ...
[ 0h] = instance_capacity[ 4b]
this being 0 told me (effectively) that none of the information below
(most notably "instance_1") was valid. So it was never read.
Looking the old NEWS file, I fixed this in FreeIPMI 1.1.2. Basically,
if the instance_capacity is 0, I assume that the vendor actually means
it's "1". If the vendor supports SOL, it makes no sense that it could
be 0.
I would be shocked if ipmitool bothers to check everything that I've
said above. I wrote ipmiconsole and libipmiconsole with large cluster
environments in mind, so the expectations/needs are a lot "tougher" than
most people would require. Subsequently, FreeIPMI finds a lot of
bugs/corner cases in vendor implementations.
Al
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 14:11 +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:06:28AM -0400, Hank Bruning wrote:
> > Send the Log, it might show a switch from the UDP port 623 to some other
> > port.
> > Or not. I'm curious why the problem. What you are trying to do should work.
>
> As Albert hinted, it does work using ipmitool.
> Migrating away from the latter, I only encountered a problem for
> M610's using freeipmi.
>
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- [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/09
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Albert Chu, 2013/04/09
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/10
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Albert Chu, 2013/04/10
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Hank Bruning, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610,
Albert Chu <=
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Albert Chu, 2013/04/11
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Fabien Wernli, 2013/04/12
- Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole fails on Dell M610, Albert Chu, 2013/04/12