Hey A.B., On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 03:27 -0700, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: > Hi Al, > * It is still maintained.
If that's the case, it is pretty out of date: A) manpage is out of date and not using the common/doc/ common manpage stuff (if it did the later, it would automatically be updated with my changes). B) it doesn't configure anything SOL related > * BMC-Autoconfig is not a GUI wizard for bmc-config. It is supposed to > ask minimum questions from the user and automatically configure the > BMC with known defaults. It is intended for users without any > knowledge of IPMI to quickly get a basic working setup. > > * It does enable LAN and configure NULL, admin, operator and ipmiuser > accounts. See the template file, you will get an idea what all it > configures. > How does the user know what the default configured usernames are? No documentation indicates what they are. The user is supposed to cat the template file? Or run bmc-config --checkout to figure it out? Also, I see: " Note:- Passwords are not set or cleared. If you want to set password for BMC user, run bmc-config --commit -f 'User<N>.Password=<PASSWORD>' " in bmc-autoconfig. So the user has to run bmc-config anyways to configure the passwords? Why not set some defaults? > If you have suggestions to improve, let us know? The tool also does not handle the fact that BMCs have a variable number of users. So what if the BMC only allows 2 users? How will bmc-autoconfig handle the variable number of supported cipher suite configurations different vendors provide? Al > Albert Chu writes: > > > I'm thinking of dropping this from FreeIPMI: > > > > A) It doesn't seem to be maintained by the original authors. > > > > B) It apparenly only configures 3 fields of the BMC. No users, lan > > enabling, etc. > > > > I don't really see the use anymore. Any comments? Anyone out there using > > this? > > > > Al > > > > -- > -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel