On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 16:36 -0700, Anand Babu Periasamy wrote: > Al Chu writes: > >> 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!! :-) > > I am not asking you to maintain it. I only requested you to add SOL > settings, because you wrote the SOL. No worries we will take care of it.
Thanks. I can do it as well. The overall point is that it seemed no one was maintaining it. > >> 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? > > bmc-autoconfig's goal was to do basic known default settings to get a > system fully functional. Once the user is confident that IPMI is > accessible and basic commands work, he/she can fiddle more on top of > it. If SOL setting is so advanced, I would rather skip SOL all > together for bmc-autoconfig. Alternatively I don't see setting cipher > algorithm to NONE as that advanced. I will see what I can do. I don't quite think you understand. If you set 'Unused' for every cipher suite algorithm, SOL won't work. Al -- Albert Chu [EMAIL PROTECTED] 925-422-5311 Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel
