On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > great: so they boot from a special PXE image I set up as a catchall. > (dhcpd lets you define a catchall for any not nodes which lack a their own > MAC-specific stanza.) when nodes are in that state, I like to > auto-configure > the cluster's knowlege of them: collect MAC, add to dhcpd.conf, etc. at > this stage, you can also use local (open) ipmi on the node itself to > configure the IPMI LAN interface: > ipmitool lan 2 set password pa55word > ipmitool lan 2 set defgw ipaddr 10.10.10.254 > ipmitool lan 2 set ipsrc dhcp >
Thanks to all the great responses I got for my last post I now have a working IPMI solution! Thanks again guys! This Beowulf list really rocks! :) In case it helps anyone else I thought it might be good to post some points that had me stumped: #####load the required drivers modprobe ipmi_devintf modprobe ipmi_si modprobe ipmi_msghandler ###turn ipmi-over-lan on and set user and passwd. Set it to get its IP over DHCP ipmitool lan set 1 access on ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc dhcp ipmitool user set password 2 foopasswd ####use this to get the MAC corresponding to the BMC ipmitool lan print ##put MAC into central dhcpd.conf [of course, maybe some of my settings are naiive or erronous; feel free to correct me] I can pretty much remote monitor logs, stats, remote power reset etc. The only two things I cannot: (1) Can't do a Serial-on-LAN (SOL); My Dell server needs a special card (read more money) for this function. That is unfortunate. (2)Can't mod the BIOS settings or even dump them. Is there a way to modify the BIOS settings via. IPMI (in general) I did find the "bootdev" option. So I can change the boot seq. but not the other BIOS settings. Any "industry standard" to change BIOS settings unattended. Preferably over LAN? -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
