Hey David, On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:23 +0100, david maxera - Sun Microsystems - Prague Czech Republic wrote: > Hi, > > I am porting FreeIPMI 0.7.4 to OpenSolaris. I can compile/install.
Cool. > However, I have never worked with FreeIPMI before, and there doesn't > seem to be any introductory documentation, is it? The freeipmi(7) manpage should provide atleast the beginner introduction. > The problem is, how can I tell it is working? Usually it should be obvious. For example, running ipmi-sensors should get you sensor readings and such. Looking at the freeipmi(7) manpage, it might be worthwhile to put a short section on "what is IPMI" and some sanity check introduction in there. I'll put that on my TODO. > > What seems to be working is bmc-info and ipmiping: > > > bmc-info > Device ID: 20 > Device Revision: 0 > [SDR Support] > Firmware Revision: 2.4 > [Device Available (normal operation)] > IPMI Version: 2.0 > Additional Device Support: > [Sensor Device] > [SDR Repository Device] > [SEL Device] > [FRU Inventory Device] > [IPMB Event Receiver] > [Chassis Device] > Manufacturer ID: 2Ah > Product ID: 9FFh > Channel Information: > Channel No: 1 > Medium Type: 802.3 LAN > Protocol Type: IPMB-1.0 > > > bmc-config also does something - I can store some username/password and > other values there and retrieve them (except the password) back. > > bmc-config --checkout > bmc-config.dump > emacs bmc-config.dump > cat bmc-config.dump | bmc-config --commit > > However, the purpose of this is unknown to me - I haven't figured any > way how to successfully use these credentials. The introduction for this stuff is covered in the freeipmi(7) manpage (although re-reading it just now, I'll add a few more details on getting started). > > My testing machine has a network interface latte2 and ethernet service > processor interface latte2-sp. latte2 doesn't answer ipmiping. I have > theory that this interface doesn't play any role in FreeIPMI, is that true? Most sun machines only support IPMI on the service processor port, not on any other port. > > latte2-sp answers ipmiping: > > > ipmiping latte2-sp > ipmiping latte2-sp (10.18.143.101) > response received from 10.18.143.101: rq_seq=40 > response received from 10.18.143.101: rq_seq=41 > response received from 10.18.143.101: rq_seq=42 > ... looks good here. > > Nothing else seems to be working, or at least I haven't guessed the > correct combination of parameters. Say, > > ipmipower -h latte2-sp -u <my_sp_user> -p <my_sp_password> --debug -s > latte2-sp: ===================================================== > latte2-sp: IPMI 1.5 Get Channel Authentication Capabilities Request > latte2-sp: ===================================================== > latte2-sp: RMCP Header: > latte2-sp: ------------ > latte2-sp: [ 6h] = version[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = reserved[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ FFh] = sequence_number[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 7h] = message_class.class[ 5b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = message_class.reserved[ 2b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = message_class.ack[ 1b] > latte2-sp: IPMI Session Header: > latte2-sp: -------------------- > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = authentication_type[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = session_sequence_number[32b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = session_id[32b] > latte2-sp: [ 9h] = ipmi_msg_len[ 8b] > latte2-sp: IPMI Message Header: > latte2-sp: -------------------- > latte2-sp: [ 20h] = rs_addr[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = rs_lun[ 2b] > latte2-sp: [ 6h] = net_fn[ 6b] > latte2-sp: [ C8h] = checksum1[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 81h] = rq_addr[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = rq_lun[ 2b] > latte2-sp: [ 12h] = rq_seq[ 6b] > latte2-sp: IPMI Command Data: > latte2-sp: ------------------ > latte2-sp: [ 38h] = cmd[ 8b] > latte2-sp: [ Eh] = channel_number[ 4b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = reserved1[ 4b] > latte2-sp: [ 3h] = maximum_privilege_level[ 4b] > latte2-sp: [ 0h] = reserved2[ 4b] > latte2-sp: IPMI Trailer: > latte2-sp: -------------- > latte2-sp: [ EEh] = checksum2[ 8b] > > > Truss reveals that sendto(...) syscall fails with Err#124 EAFNOSUPPORT - > as if some network protocol wasn't supported or what. But in ipmiping, > sendto() passes OK. What could it be? This on the other hand is unexpected. I'm not really sure why you would get a EAFNOSUPPORT error. I suppose its possible there's some subtlety with opensolaris in the code that I'm not handling properly? If you could send me the --debug output and the truss output that'd be great. Could you also try other tools (bmc-info, ipmi-sensors) out of band and let me know if the results are the same? Al > Thanks. > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-devel mailing list > Freeipmi-devel@gnu.org > http:// lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-devel > -- Albert Chu ch...@llnl.gov 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