Hi Simon, On Wed, 2012-10-31 at 03:59 -0700, Simon Kuhn wrote: > Al, > > Thanks for the pointers. We're using the latest publicly available IPMI > firmware for this motherboard. > > The changes in the release branch, along with both workaround flags, seems to > have done the trick. ipmiconsole, ipmi-sel, ipmipower, ipmi-sensors, > ipmi-chassis all appear to work correctly in limited testing.
Great. > bmc-info only returns partial info (nothing after the GUID line), with the > error: > > ipmi_cmd_get_system_info_parameters_system_firmware_version_first_set: > privilege level insufficient > > Running the command locally doesn't present that error. I'm not sure if this > is indicative of a larger problem or not. That is a bug that was also seen/reported on another Supermicro motherboard. The IPMI specification indicates privilege level "user" is sufficient to read this data, but the Supermicro motherboard requires a higher one, which is invalid. Authenticating with a higher privilege (-l operator or -l admin) should do the trick temporarily. > From your description of the issue, it sounds like you're confident > that the root cause lies with Supermicro's IPMI implementation. I'll > pursue them to fix the issue on their side as well. Yes, I'm quite confident. I know others have reported it to them too, but more bug reports can only help you and other user's cause. Al > Simon > _______________________________________________ > Freeipmi-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users -- Albert Chu [email protected] Computer Scientist High Performance Systems Division Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory _______________________________________________ Freeipmi-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freeipmi-users
