On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:35 -0700, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: > Hi Al, > Comments inline .. > > Al Chu writes: > > > 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 If that's the case, it is pretty out of date: 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 A) manpage is out of date and not using the common/doc/ common 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). > > I already updated man page before writing my previous mail.
The one I see in CVS doesn't use the common/doc manpages, it still has old options cut-and-pasted in. > > B) it doesn't configure anything SOL related > > Can you please add the best SOL default config to the template? This is my point. If you guys aren't interested in maintaining bmc- autoconfig along w/ bmc-config, and I don't want to maintain it, and (it seems) no one uses it, then we should get rid of it!! :-) > >> * 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? > > I shows the configured user names on exit. I did that before writing > my previous mail. > > > > > 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? > > I am not sure why Avati did do so. I agree, we should set some default > passwords too and throw a nice summary in a dialog screen only. User's > may not notice these messages otherwise. We will fix it. > > >> 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? > > In that case, at least anonymous 'NULL' user with administrative > privileges and one 'ipmiuser' with user privileges will be > configured. > > > How will bmc-autoconfig handle the variable number of supported > > cipher suite configurations different vendors provide? > > It configures with PLAIN-TEXT passwords which is supported on all > systems. I would consider cipher settings as advanced and recommend > bmc-config instead. That's my point A.B. Cipher settings are advanced and necessary for SOL. Most users wouldn't want to touch them. So bmc-autoconfig should handle it. Why would you leave it to bmc-config? 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
