> Hi, all, > > > Am 15.06.2012 um 03:27 schrieb Matthew X. Economou: > > Daniel Braniss writes: > > > >> just for the record, serial on 8.x works fine! the device naming > >> has changed from sio to uart, and maybe some features. We use it > >> on all our servers, even redirecting it where possible via > >> ILO,IMPI,DRAC. and is great for debuging or saving long trips :-) > > > > Would some kind soul point me to a howto for configuring IPMI on > > FreeBSD? I have a Dell PowerEdge 840 that supports IPMI, but I have > > no idea how to set it up - either in the BIOS or in FreeBSD. I've > > messed around with ipmitools a little, but I haven't gotten it to > > work. > > > Did you > > kldload ipmi > ? > > What's the output of > > dmesg> kldstat > > after loading the module? > > With the module loaded, you should be able to get something like this: > > devel# ipmitool sensor > Ambient | 23.500 | degrees C | ok | na | 1.000 = | > 6.000 | 37.000 | 42.000 | na > Systemboard | 32.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na = | > na | 60.000 | 65.000 | na > CPU1 | 49.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na = | > na | 93.000 | 97.000 | na > CPU2 | 48.000 | degrees C | ok | na | na = | > na | 93.000 | 97.000 | na > ... [...]
the ipmi kernel module allows interfacing/communicating with the 'local system', which is nice, unless the kernel went bonkers. You can - after some configuring(*) - connect from another host via something like: ipmitool -A MD5 -H <remote-host-ipmi-module-ip-address> -U root -I lanplus sol activate and get the remote host console, or do a power cycle: ipmitool -A MD5 -H <remote-host-ipmi-module-ip-address> -U root power cycle danny *: you need configure/enable the bios/drac. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
